Vaccuuming the Lawn

Well, all the leaves were down, so I had no excuse not to rake them up. So at 12:30 on saturday I got in my work clothes and put on my hat (side note: guess it's a good thing I'm wearing a hat outdoors now, not only is my hairline receding, but I'm developing male pattern baldness.... :( ) and went to vaccuum them up.

Now I know I could have raked them up and then put them in a bag, but 1) the mower chops them up so I can put more in a bag, 2) the lawn was only covered really heavy in the back 1/10 of the lawn, so the rest of the lawn would have been a pain to rake and 3) I feel it's easier.

Easier, yes, but not shorter. Once I was finished, I discovered I had spend 4+ hours outisde bagging that up. But wait, there's more! the leaves were 1-2 weeks old, so most were brittle and dry... that meant DUST. Everywhere dust went, and the bag spewed it out every time I emptied it. I didn't think much of it until I had to blow my nose (warning: it gets a little icky here) and i noticed my snot was black... that's right, pure black. So I blew the rest of that crap out of my nasal passages and spent the rest of the eveining wondering what my lungs looked like. The dust also settled on the pores on my arms, making me look very freckly. My clothes and shoes were covered in a nice reddish-brown soot.

At about 8pm I realized that 4 hours of lawn work took a lot out of me. Standing up felt like a chore, and my mind worked slowly, so I went to bed at 9 and pretty much slept until 6 when Nora needed to be woken up.

Other than that I've let go of my WoW account and now am back to playing City of Heroes (CoH). Started on Friday, and my Natural Blaster is Level 13. :) Level 50 here I come.