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[camwyn]

Okay, I'm awake. An unusual thing on a weekend, but there you go.

The work week has been all right. We're getting the network in line, I'm doing mostly desktop support, and knock on wood, nothing has exploded so far this weekend. I'm down with that. Hopefully we can get other things handled this coming week and yell at the telecomm companies for not giving us the network connectivity they swore up and down we'd have by now. We'll see.

On the home front I have gathered a fistful of quarters and am pondering loading stuff into a bag and heading for the laundry place around the corner today, rather than going into the basement and using the machines there. I'd like to see if the laundry place has anything to recommend it over the basement. $1 wash, $1 dry is tough to beat, but if the laundry place can do more than 1.5 times the basement machines' capacity for $1.50 wash, $1.50 dry or less, it may be worth the hauling. Still won't be able to beat 'oh crap it's 11 PM I forgot I need clean pants' convenience, but overall.

Probably need to get cat litter, too. That would require walking further, though. We'll see. Lunch first.

Ten thousand apologies for the lack of interesting material, but I did sleep late today and I'm still a mite groggy.

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[jerusha.livejournal.com]

The other advantage I've found to laundromats over even cheap in-house laundry is the ability to parallel-process - if I can do n loads of laundry, where n ranges from 1 to 10 or so, and have it take the same 2 hours independent of n, that's often worth to me paying more per load. (This is counterbalanced by the ability to do other stuff at home while cycling individual loads, which in turn depends on how convenient the laundry room is to your apartment. The apartment where the laundry room was 10 feet from our back door? In house laundry FTW. The apartment where the laundry room was three floors down an external (fire-escape) staircase, and the laundry room itself was a poorly-illuminated pit? Laundromat all the way.)

[camwyn]

Laundry room is in the basement, down four flights of stairs, out the front door, in another door, and all the way at the back. The laundromat is down four flights of stairs, out the front door, down 1/4 of the block, up another block entirely (albeit a short one). So the location doesn't make that much difference.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Forgot transportation differences. <feels stupid, or at least underslept>

For me, my car was the same distance as the laundry room, and then I could drive the whole shebang to a laundromat, instead of down three floors... and up three floors... and down three floors... and up three floors... But yeah, if I had been carrying to the laundromat, or even having to arrange a carshare car, the laundry room might have looked more attractive.

[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

oh man, i totally hear you on the telecoms. we have to fight tooth and nail with them to get even close to their advertised speeds. =/