I love many, many things about the Internet, but probably what I love the best is instant access to all sorts of information.

Yesterday Denny wanted to mop our kitchen floor (we went on a binge last night and bought all new appliances for the kitchen—I’ll document that process as they arrive a week from Tuesday), and in preparation for the blessed event, he moved the stove and fridge and cleaned under them.

We try to minimize our use of noxious chemicals, and he remembered my dad one time using a vinegar/water solution to clean our floors.  He asked me about the ratio, and I was like, “Have you ever seen me mop a floor?”  Fortunately, about five seconds of Internet-searching revealed the answer, and soon the floors were clean and the house smelled like Easter eggs.

How did people learn these things in the old-timey days?  Did they just take notes whenever a new piece of information became available?  How did they organize these notes?  Did they keep giant reference tomes around the house?  Would we have had to take a trip to the library just to figure out how much vinegar to put in our mop solution?

The answer, by the way, is 1 cup white vinegar to 1 gallon of water.  I know because the Internet told me.