Thursday, February 7, 2019
Pre-breakfast at home: an apple. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Sprint standup. Late breakfast from The View Cafe: egg, bacon, and cheddar on english muffin; water. Siteimprove work. Followup on CSS reaching production today. Lunch at desk: leftover tagliatelle. Update from the Dean retrospective meeting. D8 migration audit review meeting. Asana task followup. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover fried foods with dipping sauce trio, leftover pizza, water. Afterwards Patrick made us both a cocktail containing gin and grapefruit juice. Our new Blue Pure 411 air purifiers emit too much light, particularly in a bedroom at night while sleeping, so in my solution I used scissors to cut a 4.5-mm circle out of 2-inch green Frogtape painters tape and affixed it to the air purifier switch where the lights are. This doesn't block any of the vents, so it should be pretty safe, and it doesn't interfere with the touch operation of the power switch. The tape is translucent, so some light still shows through, which is good so that you can see what setting it's on, but afterwards it's a lot more comfortable lightwise at night. To get a 4.5-mm circle, I traced around the base of a bottle of Fees Brothers orange flower water. If you have a small bottle of bitters, that likely will do just as well. If you try this and it's still too bright for you, just repeat the procedure again, putting the second layer of painter's tape on top of the first. (Later I did indeed apply the second layer—it's perfect.) Today after two months I finally received a replacement 10-inch Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick fry pan after returning on December 4 a similar pan under warranty because the non-stick coating had eventually failed. In my experience Calphalon has always been very good about honoring their lifetime warranties, and this was no exception. The delivery of the replacement was delayed somewhat because they had somehow shipped it to the wrong location—seemingly another Calphalon facility also in Ohio. A bit frustrating, but the replacement eventually did make its way to me after I notified them of the problem. Other companies that I firmly trust to honor their warranties are Peak Design and Arcade Belts. House chores.