chore

That’s the last part of editing the book before it comes out, you’re not supposed to think of it as the worst chore ever.

There were my babysitting fees and an allowance for doing household chores—what I don’t know about toilet-cleaning is not worth knowing—which included the wringer-washer laundry that was to feature in Cat’s Eye.

When it works, it's great - but when you can't figure out how to do something, it's a chore.

There are also mandatory chores: “Developing a work ethic is part of the curriculum, part of what we’re teaching kids.”

For now, you’ll need to be cool with a company representative potentially peering through the robot’s camera eyes to get chores done.