Saturday, October 18, 2025
This morning Patrick showed me a crumb drawer in the Wolf range that we didn't know existed even after living here for about 7 months. Breakfast at home: two small waffles from frozen, hot water. Cleaned the outside windows of the sliding glass doors with vinegar solution to remove water spots from the recent heavy rains. Cleaned the bathroom, cut my hair, showered, cleaned the bathroom. Dusted the dining room chandelier. Lunch at home: leftover fried rice, water. Afternoon snack: Patrick made us cocoa-banana smoothies. Patrick helped me with ladder work on the balcony: sealed flashing with silicone sealer, inspected the light fixture which is broken at the top. Afterwards I rewired switches in the laundry room and in the secondary bathroom. The laundry room exhaust fan is still not removing moisture satisfactorily while the dryer runs, so I removed the Lutron MS-OPS2 switch and replaced it with the same manual switch we had before since the MS-OPS2 has a maximum 30-minute timeout and we need the fan on for the entire run of the dryer. I moved the MS-OPS2 to the switch for the fan in the secondary bathroom and set it for vacancy mode and a 15-minute timeout. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Mamahuhu and Bi-Rite Grocery via DoorDash: we shared eggplant tofu, sweet and sour chicken, tomato garlic chow mein, and jasmine rice. Dessert from Bi-Rite: chocolate ice cream and peach cobbler ice cream. There was a small error in our Doordash order. Patrick reported it, and we received a credit to our account. Water to drink. We watched 1 hour and 42 minutes of John Wick: Chapter 4 on Hulu, breaking a few minutes in to watch a recap of chapters 1, 2, and 3 on ScreenCrush via YouTube. Patrick went to bed.