Monday, May 26, 2025
Breakfast at home: yogurt with Mexican vanilla, sliced and toasted almonds, toasted coconut, flax meal, cacao nibs, and blueberries. Hot water to drink. Unloaded the dishwasher. Processed dirty dishes from last night. Did some deep cleaning of several bowls with marks from utensils. Cleaned and tidied in the dining room and kitchen. Did a lot of documenting and config-checking of the three thermostats. While doing so, one of the video door answer units came loose from its bracket, so I spent some time figuring out how to remove it (remove the small screw at the bottom) then spent some time cleaning dust from its back and its bracket using an old toothbrush. Decided against buying a small wet/dry vacuum mostly because the market for these items seems to be filled with unreliable devices, and I don't need one that badly. Organized digital files for the home. Deep-cleaned the secondary bathroom shower and tub with CLR including the tub, the doors, and the door frame and track. It helped a little in the tub, but it did nothing to remove the faint water marks on the door glass. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a large baked potato with three kinds of grated cheeses, sour cream, and diced green onion; corn on the cob; hot water. Prepped installation of a macrame plant hanger in the primary bathroom. Cleaned two bathroom sinks. Vacuumed lower level. Carpet care: trimmed a carpet loop that was sticking up. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: steamed Chinese sausage zong, steamed green beans from frozen, hot water. We watched various YouTube videos then half of Eddie Izzard: Live at Madison Square Garden (2011) on Amazon Prime Video. Patrick went to bed, and I joined a while later. The recent problem in which multiple pages erroneously feed when scanning with an Epson inkjet all-in-one was indeed resolved by cleaning the inkjet printer's separation rollers and pads with 91% alcohol.