Darth Vader smells like Feet

I decided at some point yesterday afternoon that today would be my Sunday Hash. Now, for those of you who never lived on the Row, Sunday Hash was not the special pot you saved for Sundays (the lord's pot?), but rather the weekly (supposedly) thorough cleaning of the Kitchen that occurred every Sunday, but featuring a new crew of cleaners each week.

Today's Sunday Hash, however, covered the entire house plus the back yard and was crewed by just me. This was kind of nice though - I didn't have to go knocking at doors of no-shows, waste time delegating tasks or deal with completely incompetent hashers. Anyway, it wasn't all that painful at all, but I think there's something wrong with my vacuum cleaner.

I inherited this vacuum cleaner from my sister when she moved into her new house (with her new vacuum). Affectionately called "Darth Vader," my vacuum is about 6 years old and I've personally rescued it from the junk heap once when Darth stopped sucking. He seems to be doing ok right now, but he smells kind of funny . . . When I started vacuuming the floors I noticed that the living room area had a faint smell of feet. I immediately figured that the rug (purchased used from a student living in Kairos) was developing/reacquiring an unpleasant odor.

When I got to the second floor, however the smell of feet came back, but then started smelling like ass. As I was finishing the first room, the smell of ass became more and more like the smell of burning ass. Darth is still maintaining sucking power so I probably won't junk him, but I should probably look into this burning ass business . . .

Anyway, time for a cold drink and some TV . . . maybe some saxophoning too.