Friday, December 19, 2025
Breakfast: chicken sausage patty with cheddar on english muffin, hot water. Filed laundry that Patrick folded earlier. Removed the soft-close toilet seat from the half bath and replaced it with the soft-close toilet seat that was formerly in the bedroom's bathroom. The one I removed had a problem in which the lid would soft-close but the seat would not soft-close. I didn't realize this until after I had installed it. Trash management. Swept parts of the stairwell and in front of our home and in the street. Shower. Handled some tax issues. Finalized an email thread with SnapPower support; I decided to return two MotionLight GFCI units because I didn't want to remove the yellow labels covering the load terminals in order to install them and I didn't want to call an electrician to confirm if that was safe to do so. For lunch and to celebrate Hanukkah, Sam picked up Patrick and me and we drove to the Marina to eat at Super Mensch. It was our first time. We shared an order of latkes, an everything bagel, pastrami on rye, and matzah ball soup. Pickle lemonade for Patrick, regular lemonades for Sam and me. All food and drink were delicious. The pastrami was particularly tender. The pickle lemonade was interesting. Sam's favorite and Patrick's favorite was the latkes. Mine was the pastrami. For dessert we shared a giant chocolate cake slice. Later, dinner at home with Patrick: grilled cheese, tomato, and caramelized onion sandwiches with potato chips; hot water. We watched Adolescence e2 then more of Robby Hoffman: Wake Up on Netflix but although the first 24 minutes was somewhat good the next 15 minutes was not very funny and somewhat offensive so we stopped and gave it a thumbs down. We watched most of SNL s51:e8 Josh O'Connor on YouTube. Patrick went to bed. I updated from macOS 18.7.2 to 18.7.3 and it hung with a black screen. Cold restart seemed to fix it. Then I upgraded to macOS 26.2 Tahoe. Then did the same for Patrick's computer. Weeded or removed from home screen apps on the iPad Air. To bed.