{"id":2128,"date":"2005-09-06T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-01-15T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:30:12","slug":"cleaning-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We got new carpets last Thursday. With all the moving that we had to do for that, plus the reorganization that was required to get Dennis&#8217; work area in shape for a new school year, it seemed like a good time to do a major cleanup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be honest, this ended up being significantly more than a &#8220;major&#8221; cleanup; perhaps &#8220;grand, intergalactic plot&#8221; might cover it better. For example, Dennis and I managed to get 17 green garbage bags full of old &#8220;stuff&#8221; out of our rooms(!). This doesn&#8217;t include the furniture, books, puzzles, lego (including the mindstorms) and electronic equipment that we are selling\/giving away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deb is going through her books and trying to prune them back to only 5 bookshelves full. Those of you who know her will understand how much of a challenge that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, below are a couple of pictures of what my room looks like now. Time will tell how well throwing away my past history has worked, but there&#8217;s certainly more room to move around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomleft.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomleft.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomleft-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My room left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomright.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3658\" style=\"width:645px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomright.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/09\/myroomright-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My room right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got new carpets last Thursday. With all the moving that we had to do for that, plus the reorganization that was required to get Dennis&#8217; work area in shape for a new school year, it seemed like a good time to do a major cleanup. To be honest, this ended up being significantly more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}