Most people won't realize how brilliant Flipsit is. I realize Flipsit is meant to be a product you use in your home, but it's a shame public places don't use it on their toilets, too. Even the cleanest public bathroom is cleaned less than once an hour. Some toilet seats are only disinfected a couple of times a day. The toilet seat in your home is probably disinfected only once a week! Why does that matter? Because 99% of antimicrobial sanitizers don't work properly. Even Purell which is used in more public establishments than any other brand has a dirty little secret. Purell and all alcohol-based sanitizers will kill 99.99% of germs, but as soon as the alcohol dries, their protection vanishes. And germs will multiply until the bathroom is cleaned again. With Flipset, you never have the touch the toilet set. So your chances of infection are greatly reduced. It's a shame the US Government Center for Disease Control (CDC) has supported and promoted the use of alcohol-based sanitizers even though they know full well alcohol-based sanitizers only kill germs for the 5-7 seconds the alcohol is wet. Once the alcohol dries, the protection vanishes! Of course, the same is true in your own home if you use an alcohol-based sanitizer on your toilet. That's why Flipsit is such a clever product. It helps protect you against germs where they are sure to lurk. Buy this from here- http://bit.ly/12Imnge Here is a link that might be useful: Flipsit

I would keep the maytag set and move the Kenmore to a new home. The Kenmore's have about reached the bearing life expectancy and is usually fatal for the machine. The Maytag set appear to be one of the last models that are truly Maytag constructed. They will last you a long time and can be repaired a lot easier than the Kenmore. JMO. MRB

I get a little impatient with people who want "all natural," "eco-friendly," and "sustainable." I would challenge most of these people to pass a ninth-grade science test. In most cases I think they are just being duped out of their money. Add to the fact that finishing labels rarely tell the whole truth about the contents. Below is a link and at $30 a quart seems like quite the deal. I have never really understood the fascination, almost cult-like following, of tung oil. It seems to offer no advantages over the much cheaper, faster, easier to use, and less error-prone boiled linseed oil (which is not boiled, another finish label lie). I would challenge anyone to distinguish between the two side by side on the same piece of wood. I did a fabric cleaning job for a lady a few years ago. She didn't want me to use any "chemicals." I'm thinking, that leaves light or vacuum, because everything else, including Di-hydrogen Monoxide (aka water) is a chemical. She was pleased when I pulled out a jar of "Natural Fiber Cleaner." I didn't tell her that "natural" modified "fiber" (it was meant for Haitian cotton) and not "cleaner." The only difference was the pH; it was not as alkaline as the other cleaners. Here is a link that might be useful: one alternative

I loved The Name of the Rose (which I read with the translator's annotations at hand) and have Foucault's Pendulum on my TBR list. I have dipped into some of his other fiction, but not read any of it through. There are several funny pieces in his short essay collection, How to travel with a salmon & other essays, and some thought-provoking stuff in Travels in Hyperreality. I happen to be translating one of his non-fiction books, which is challenging, but not nearly as much as one of his novels would be. While he writes novels full of all sorts of obscure and bewildering references and connotations, his books on linguistics merely demand a good knowlege of that field.