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I have a propensity to procrastinate. Knowing this, and not wanting our house to turn into a shit hole, I've put technology to work.

Using a combination of "PHPiCalendar":http://phpicalendar.net/ and "Mozilla Calendar":http://mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ I've made a list of "chores for Jess":http://revjim.net/phpicalendar/week.php?cal=Chores-Jess and a list of "chores for myself":http://revjim.net/phpicalendar/week.php?cal=Chores-Daniel. Using PHPiCalendar's "RSS Feeds":http://revjim.net/phpicalendar/rss/index.php, I get notification on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis of the chores that I'm supposed to do.

So far, I've been pretty good at getting them done. Mowing the lawn is one of the biggest pains. I found that, when the grass is wet, it's harder to mow. So I turned off the sprinklers on Saturday mornings and, instead, I start them manually after I finish mowing.

Aside from mowing the lawn, my chores this weekend include watering the plants, feeding the fish, cleaning the cat box, mopping all the floors, and washing my truck. This is a slow weekend compared to others.

Since I knew ahead of time that I would be nearly unwilling to do anything on a week day, I didn't schedule any chores for those days, aside from those things that need to be done on a daily basis (water the plants, feed the fish, clean the cat box). I think that might have been a mistake as, after not doing chores throughout the week, I really hate doing them on the weekends. I may move some stuff around to give me a little more to do during the week and a little less to do on the weekends. However, I don't want to spend more than an hour on a weekday doing chores. So it's hard to decide exactly what things I should do as most of them are either really short, or really time consuming.

I'll work it out, eventually.