Friday, October 9, 2026
Plant care. Breakfast at home with Patrick: breakfast croissant sandwich with scrambled egg, swiss cheese, and bacon; hot water. Removed with Goof Off and paper towels the remains of labels from a small bottle of Monin syrup so we can reuse the bottle. Washed the exteriors of the dining room windows and the three southfacing windows with Silver Cymbal's window washing solution and the product on Amazon called LAANPOLE 26FT High Reach Duster Cleaning Kit with Extension Pole, High Ceiling Fan Cleaner Duster Tool for Fan Blades, Window Washing Kit with Microfiber Feather Duster & Window Squeegee. Lunch: leftover pork sausage ragu with rigatoni, water. Continued exterior window cleaning in the exterior stairwell. All exterior window cleaning is complete. Snack: one celery stalk with peanut butter. Nap. Cleaned the half bath sink. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover BBQ meats and black bean tostada with salsa, sour cream, shredded lettuce, and cherry tomatoes; cold cucumber-yogurt soup; cold water. Afterwards we reviewed tax filings then prepared greeting cards and small gifts to send in the mail with Unsinkable chocolate liqueur on ice with butter microwave popcorn. Patrick went to bed while I continued printing photos on our inkjet printer. Printing photos to our Epson XP-7100 was a nightmare. I encountered black ink streaks and poor quality printing in some areas. I troubleshot for several hours, including installing Epson's drivers. Then the driver failed to let me select cassette 1 so I tried to work around that problem by using the rear feed slot. Then the printer refused to identify the photo paper loaded in the rear feed slot. Somehow I got it to work as I had wanted, but I don't know how exactly. Four sheets of photo paper were wasted in the process, and it would have been faster to walk to the nearby Walgreen's to have photos printed. Cleaned the north bathroom toilet and sink. Reconfigured the shade of our West Elm Caldas floor lamp so that the seam is not visible from anywhere in the living room.