In other news, my annual dryer vent cleaning is scheduled for next week. They offer our community a 40% discount off their regular (fair) pricing so it's pretty much a no-brainer.
I made two phone calls today. I'm done adulting.
Yesterday one of the tension cables for my garage door failed. I moved the car to the driveway and carefully closed the (no longer level) door.
Today I called the folks who replaced the springs ~15 years ago. They can come out tomorrow morning to replace the failed cable (and possibly its sibling).
As the sun rises over the Bay Area, it's time to get dressed and head down to breakfast at day two of
#SREcon. (And I'll be giving my conference talk in about five and a half hours, too.)
Want to get a better understanding of writing and testing disaster recovery plans? I'm talking about that in "Running DRP Tabletop Exercises" on Wed Mar 26 at SREcon25 Americas in Santa Clara!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/simon will have slides and video after the fact.
Running DRP Tabletop Exercises | USENIX
Last night was dinner with the family: Shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce, honey baked ham with a mustard dipping sauce, crispy parmesan potatoes, fruit-stuffed acorn squash, baked apples, and a strawberry trifle. (I have leftovers of everything except the shrimp and squash.)
A friend was kind enough to take me out to dinner tonight. We each had miso soup and salad, then we split a sushi deluxe and four rolls (California, spicy salmon, spicy tuna, and one with baby shrimp, crab, avocado, and eel, with spicy tuna on top).
I got some work done that I wanted to do yesterday but couldn't, then clocked out for breakfast (two scrambled eggs and four strips of maple-cured bacon). In an hour I have to head up to campus for the Winter Innovation Expo where (among other things) I'm presenting a poster.
Mom's butcher had a sale on maple-cured bacon so she picked me up a pound. I baked some of it off this morning for breakfast alongside a couple of microwave-scrambled eggs with cheddar and mozzarella.
My brother was right; that bacon is addictive.
I spent much of today deep cleaning the house (including dusting the ceiling fans as the ladder was upstairs; see above): Bathrooms (hall and master), dining room, kitchen, laundry, library, living room, and master bedroom all got dusted, vacuumed, and sanitized as appropriate. Did a load of laundry. Remade the bed with clean sheets. Showered after dinner so there's a clean me to go on the clean sheets.
This morning at 3:30am, the bedroom smoke detector tripped (not the low-battery chirp but the full on alert triggering all the other wired-in detectors to go off). It’s not that old — I bought and installed them all in September 2023, so just over a year — and it’s only the one detector tripping. <Sigh>. I may swap it with another unit and see what happens.
