EP. 01 · DOING THE WORK
The Chore Chart Tribunal
Somebody did the thing. Somebody else swears they were about to. The house reconvenes.
What’s on it? What’s the color scheme?
A playful first draft of jemlark.party, drawn from today’s conversation: local weather, live house sensors, reality-show style videos of non-related families living together, a toddler-tantrum livestream, Roomba livestreams, and events we still have to invent.
Nobody actually picked one on the tape, so this draft lets the house argue it out. Tap a palette. The whole page shifts. The committee remains undecided.
Placeholder local forecast, because “local weather forecast” was one of the first things said once we got back to the website. Not a real station. Not a real guarantee it won’t rain on the Roomba.
Placeholder readout only — a pretend live feed from “a sensor that’s actively going,” as discussed. This is not a scientific instrument and is not measuring anything real yet.
The idea: videos about how the house is doing work, and how non-related families work out the issues of living together. Placeholder episodes only — titles invented in the spirit of that conversation, not from real footage.
Somebody did the thing. Somebody else swears they were about to. The house reconvenes.
A diplomatic summit is held at the sink. Treaties are signed in dish soap.
The work is the relationship. The relationship is the work. Also, someone moved a chair.
A future link to the social media page that holds the actual videos.
Social page coming soonTwo ideas from the same burst of inspiration: a toddler-tantrum livestream, and livestreams on the Roomba. “That’d be so funny. Has anybody done that?” These are cartoon stand-ins, not real cameras and not a real child.
The recording asked the question and then the conversation wandered off. These placeholder events are invented in that spirit — wacky on purpose, not scheduled, not ticketed, not real until the house says so.
We stand around the EMF needle and cheer if it wiggles.
Live-streamed. Obstacles include one sock and a diplomatic toddler.
Working out issues of living together, with snacks if the livestream allows it.