Saturday, October 4, 2014
Breakfast at home: Bicycle decaf coffee via Bialetti, oatmeal with fresh, diced sweetango apple; pumpkin pie spice; unsweetened soy milk. Home improvement: painting, stocked the car with new safety equipment, laundry, began unpacking the new Miele Capri vacuum. Midafternoon meal: leftover wonton soup, one mini mint-chip ice cream sandwich. Early dinner: leftover thai and chinese food. Tried to activate my Consumer Cellular SIM but they told me it would take 24 hours and I need my phone tomorrow, so I told them I would activate it later. Snack: baked sweet potato with butter, salt, and nutmeg. Unpacked the Miele and read most of its user manual, tried it out. It's very nice. And I realized I now need a wall organizer of some kind because it doesn't store all the parts of the vacuum as tidily as the Hoover upright it's replacing. I then wondered if I should have purchased a Miele upright, and then investigated this. The uprights cost a little more (e.g., $450 for a Twist instead of $400 for the Capri), and they weigh significantly more (26.8 pounds for the Twist, 18.2 pounds total for the Capri). However, I decided the canister was better for us because I was not confident from the photos of the Twist that it would be able to reach under a set of Ikea Tunhem cabinets through an opening 12.2 cm tall and reach to the back 40 cm deep. We have three of these on a marble floor, and