May your days be brighter
Sunday, February 1st, 2026 06:10 pmAnd a blessed Imbolc to all who celebrate.
I celebrated by changing out the cat boxes, and vacuuming the basement.
Because my roommates are not good with telephones, nor, frankly, with understanding when I might need them to use the telephone, a couple years ago, I upped the population of Google Nests in this house, making sure I had one in more or less every room.
I have at last count 7 Nests, and when asked all will give me the current weather in the city in which I live.
Except for the Nest in the bathroom -- you know, the room in the house where people are most likely to fall? Yeah. Well, for the past two years the Nest in the bathroom has operated under the persistent illusion that I live in Portland. Or at least that the bathroom is in Portland.
I have today -- I believe -- repaired that delusion. I will of course test this multiple times, but just now, after the fix and the reboot, when I asked it what the weather was, it gave me local conditions in this, my own, city. And when I asked it where I was located, it gave me the correct zipcode.
Other things accomplished today -- books pulled and boxed and ready to go to the bookstore, where they will be entered into The System, and brought to the library on the day of my event.
The aforesaid changing out of the cat boxes and vacuuming of the basement, moving clean dishes from the washer to the various cabinets where they belong. I still have to wash the pots and pans and then? It will be Coon Cat Happy Hour.
So, yanno, not an earthshaking kind of day by any means, but I got through it, and that counts.
Tomorrow, PT first thing, then I have to stop at the bank for the first time in at least a year, then home again for work on the WIP and revising the Remarks. Oh, and I should write my wrap-up for Conflict of Honors, seeing as I'm halfway through Plan B.
Everybody have a good evening; stay safe.
I'll check in tomorrow.