I loathe wet cloths sitting around the kitchen. Yech! Also, you're supposed to follow up a wet cloth with a dry cloth when using microfiber. So, it's simple. After use, the day's wrung-out wet cloth goes into the kitchen hamper (with other microfiber cloths and fabric napkins, so nothing gets mildewy). The dry cloth, after following-up the wet cloth, remains on the counter and is used for quick and small wipe-ups for 24 hours. The dry cloth then becomes the wet cloth for the thorough cleaning of the evening. The wet cloth goes into the hamper, and a new dry cloth gets pulled out for the follow-up and next 24 hours worth of quick cleaning.

That's about seven cloths a week. Adding in cloths used in various other parts of the house, it makes a small laundry load every two weeks. Because the cloths are being regularly laundered, there's no need to designate different cloths to different areas.

Nonetheless, good idea to map my capslock key to something else with AutoHotKey. Don't know what, yet, but it'll come to me...

Here's my tip for magazines: multitask while in the bathroom. I read while in the bath, while blowdrying my hair, and, well, need I say it? I hardly ever read a magazine outside of that little room.

You may view "civilization" as irreponsibility, wastefulness and consumption in the name of convenience, but I see the true mark of civilization as a society of people who can see beyond the end of their noses and take responsible action to preserve our limited resources. I hope that one day we truly are civilized.

Of course, this only works when it's not whole hands or feet that are affected.

But, if you have a simple one-step way of adding it to your calendar with a reminder, then that would certainly be better than this.

Only problem I've seen so far with hitmelater: formatting for an e-mail I tried was lost, making it a bear to read. But, of course, since I already knew what was in the e-mail, it wasn't a huge deal...

I'll be sure to test it with a disposable e-mail account first, of course, but if it's truly spamless, this will be excellent. :thumbsup:

Even at work, wouldn't it be beneficial to schedule by 60-minute blocks, so I could set it differently during lunch or regular meeting times?

I haven't uninstalled it, because I figure it's still better than nothing, but I'm still holding out for the perfect solution without requiring too much of my precious, dwindling brain power to set up.

I used this successfully for someone who thought I had belittled her in a meeting and she totally unleashed on me. When she described her interpretation of the events, even though they were completely incorrect from my point of view, I said things like, "I understand why that would make you upset." Because, really, I did understand why that would make her upset. It's not how it really happened, but if it had happened that way, she would be completely right to feel slighted. After I let her vent and unwind, I was able to calmly describe my perspective on the events, and we were able to come to a bit of shared understanding.