I'm currently watching "Modern Marvels: Bathroom Technology" on the History Channel. It's rather dull, really... but you know, 200 years ago we didn't have toilets. 80 years ago, toilet paper was uncommon. Now we take both for granted, just like running water. Now we have all of that stuff, and it always works. But by most modern accounts, our rate of innovation is exponential, not on a bell curve.

So, what common items will be unrecognizably improved 50 years from now? I immediately think of things like wall-size, paper-thin TVs and computers with an exabyte of hard drive space (1,000,000,000 GB), but what about common items like... furniture? Lights? Lysol spray bottles?

Anyway, about one week into summer break, I've retrieved the cello and started with that, done a bit of chain mail, started running (and waking up at 6 AM to do it) and ... moved a whole lot of mulch and dirt. But hey, all in a day's work.