My mother’s motto was

You can write your name in the dust, just don’t put the date.

I am my mother’s child.

Recently I undertook the Herculean task of cleaning my personal Augean Stable – the area under my computer stand.

We won’t discuss when was the last time I cleaned under there, besides my memory is not that good.

I spend a good part of my waking life at my computer, and much of the detritus of my life accumulates around that area.

It is a land of dust bunnies from hell and cords and cables that long to grab my ankles and pull me under (like I’d fit).

But I got a wild hair and I cleaned it all out.

I threw out a bunch of crap, I rearranged cords and cables, I swept, and swept, and swept (squatter dust bunnies can be very tenacious) and it is now very nice.

And our brown tabby, Leo, is under the impression that I did this for his sole convenience.