Thursday, December 11, 2025
Breakfast: one deli blueberry muffin, heated; maple almond butter granola with dried peach leftover from the cashew-peach granola bag, blueberries, toasted coconut, plain yogurt; hot water. Printed return address labels for Christmas cards. Troubleshot and seemed to resolve smudging with the laser printer by cleaning the fuser. Folded laundry that Patrick had washed earlier. All morning: more preparation for getting rid of old devices. Lunch: I prepared for myself chicken fried rice with diced deli chicken breast, broccoli, carrot, tomato, white onion, green onion, celery; hot water. Helped a stranger named Kenneth who had mobility issues and seemed to have fallen from his bicycle just outside of our place with a heavy load of bags and boxes. Completed a package for mailing and walked to a place to send it. Returned home. Reported a problem with a clogged sidewalk cleanout to the plumber who visited us a week ago. He says that the city line is clogged and that it is not his responsibility but he will help us at no charge. To avoid using water to prepare dinner, we walked to Takara Sushi. Four rolls, gyoza, small hot sake for Patrick, hot green tea for me. Walked home. We watched the remainder of Die Hard on Hulu then trailers for the remaining Die Hard films on YouTube then SNL s51:e7 Melissa McCarthy on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. Late snack: three mandarins. Troubleshot problems with website hosting and email and chatted with support. The outage was resolved not long after and might have lasted about 75 minutes. Switched all currently installed SnapPower MotionLights from high brightness to low brightness. I was surprised at how the change made them feel more luxurious. Brighter footlights is not necessarily safer in our household, and the dimmer lights provide lighting that is subtler yet still sufficient. For a few moments I considered returning all MotionLights I purchased—not just the GFCI ones—primarily because I didn't like how inconsistently they detect motion. However, I think I plan to decide that they are good enough even they don't work as perfectly as I had hoped. Shopped online for better living room lighting. To bed late.