My parents said the drinks in their (detached) garage refrigerator are exploding because the fridge is freezing from the ambient being 0F. Bottles and cans. Brr.

Helped install a combination washer dryer. On a kitchen. Because the gal can’t reasonably access the main laundry in the basement. Brought in hot cold drain and electric.

Daughter stopped by with her dog, left. Red coat is Lola:beagle. White and spotted is Wiggles/dachshund. It was a great visit

Replaced the main bearing in our clothes washer. Two steps were difficult: 1) finding trick to remove control panel from the top 2) separating/removing drum from main shaft I’m currently testing it. No weird noises nor leaks so far .

Lola is recovering nicely after the pelvic surgery. My daughter and I took her to the home center. She seemed to enjoy herself.

Had a dentist appointment this morning. My hygienist has a farm w farm animals. She tells the best stories. Today she told me about dog stomach Tacking (Gastropexy). 😮 dogdiscoveries.com/health/dog-s...

This was half chicken and half carrots (from a pot of homemade chicken stock). Lola ate the chicken but not one carrot.

Lola eating homemade chicken broth

Feeding time. Surgeon said as long as Lola eats *something* ea day, we’re good

Lola going outside to stretch her legs

Update: Lola dog is home from the surgery center. It was a 5-hr drive ea way. She can stand. And she can walk a little with assistance

“Merry Christmas, Harry”

Brother new apartment. Sister found him a top-n-bottom washer dryer deal. Dryer hose was shortish so had to connect hose to wall with unit pushed partly into the narrow cubby. One guy scaled the unit and hung over the back, the other guy held his feet so he wn fall into the void. It worked.

Lola dog update: is out of orthopedic surgery after the hit n run. Surgeon very happy with reconstructive outcome. Something about screws and a 0.7mm target. Said Lola very lucky to be alive. Recovery will be long.

We adopted a dog on Thursday. Lola. Her owner, our daughter’s best friend, died in his sleep. Sunday we had family over for our Christmas celebration. Somehow Lola got out and was hit by a car. We’re now at a 24-hour surgery center waiting to hear if the badly fractured bones are repairable.😢

Caring for a dog, Lola. She was jumping off the back of our sofa, which is too high, sooner or later she’ll get hurt. So I made an very ugly thing so she can’t jump off the high part. Used scraps in my shop

water fixtures in our house take a long time to get hot. pipes are 3/4” Cu to ea device cluster, then 1/2” Cu for the final few ft. My plan is to install 1/2 PEX home runs from water heater, & a 8-port PEX manifold. Charts say 1/2” PEX is 0.00961 Gal/ft while 3/4” Cu is 0.0269. Or a factor of 2.8

I started my vacation after finishing work today. I dont go back until Monday the 5th

Our family room has a fake/electric fireplace. The 20A CAFCI breaker for that circuit started tripping intermittently. There are 9 receptacles on that ckt so I’ll start by moving the fireplace to its own breaker. Now we wait…

Experimenting w vs code copilot’s capabilities. I certain commit made a fix to a data layer but it should have been in a presentation layer. I’ll see if copilot can fix it.

My dog came with me to HomeDepot today. I needed some circuit breakers (tandem & CAFCB). The parking lot has been plowed and there are piles of snow. As soon as Wiggles and I got out of my vehicle he hiked a leg on a snow pile

Work teammates dined at a cook-your-own steakhouse. Yum. www.rubessteakhouse-waukee.com

This wk is collaboration wk. Team is full remote; we meet a few times a yr. Developers can give presentations. I have 1 work related & 1 DIY related DIY presentation is about a rental house. The tenants reported random circuit breaker tripping. Used TheScrollOfTruth where there was misinformation😆

My wife ordered pecan waffles at a local restaurant. A) The pancakes were bigger than anticipated. And b) each pancake came with a rather large qty of pecans.

Wiggles sometimes lays like he’s poised to run after something

I’m 63. Just got hearing aids. Why are my parents nearly yelling?

I’m watching 5yo grandson. For breakfast I made him GrandpasSpecialDessertBreakfast. He loved it. I scored points on this one

At age 64, looks like hearing aids are in my future. I struggle with conversations in noisy environments and ringing in quiet environments.

At my son’s house. Shower faucet needs a new cartridge and flow control insert. Hardware store had the cartridge but not the insert. Also they sell the whole faucet/valve and shower head, so I bought that for parts. Problem solved

My son’s basement floor is dirt. They keep beach sandals at the top of the stairs just for the basement. Tonight I went down in the basement. This look reminded me of a “camel’s toe”

Mom & dad want a screened in patio by spring time (mid west USA). They like the style that is rectangular & attach to the house. The eaves are 7’4” high, but most screen room kits are ~8’ tall. I just learned some kits can be lowered by cutting the AL posts and redrilling the mounting plate holes

A friend’s dining room chair leg cracked when someone leaned back. Cracked at a weak spot, where there was knot. Used Titebond III glue. For a clamp, I used very tightly wrapped nylon cord, which worked amazingly well.

My job is remote. I learned our next on-site collaboration week is in Dec and so I started working on my presentations. One is work related. One is home DIY; it’s about a multi-month long topsy-turvy mystery about why varying circuit breakers randomly trip at my friend’s home. PS: on-site is fun

I feel bad. I was reading about regex backtracking and DoS vulnerabilities. I tried (a+)+b on an online regex testing site to see just how slow parsing is … and the site went unresponsive. Sorry.

I was watching tv and eating potato chips. Wife rolled by, noticed crumbs on my black jeans, said Hold on, I’ll fix that <finger pointing back and forth at crumbs>. She came bk w lint roller / chip crumb accumulator. Problem solved

What did I do today? Hint.: The painting in the Sistine Chapel has *tremendous* depth - portions appear to be 3D. As just one example, these pillar platforms looked fully three dimensional.

We’re in Rome Italy for a few days

Today we toured Assisi. Very hilly but that made it even more unique. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisi

Am vacationing in Italy. Today we were in Venice.

Sister and husband moved near us. Their new home has 2 odd wall switches that should have been located elsewhere. Or should had been 3-ways. I fixed the situation w Lutron Caseta wireless switches. Sister very happy w outcome.

Our SleepNumber mattress was on edge for months, air bladders had fallen to one edge. I flipped it bottom side up, unzipped the bottom, rearranged the bladders. Thankfully bladders were labeled ThisSideToBottom. Very quickly flipped it over - like a thick pancake - so parts didn’t have time to shift

Wiggles being wiggly

Helped my son remove lots of plaster and lathe in a room he was refurbishing. We bagged the debris. Bags were really heavy. Made a sled mechanism to lower the bags from the 2nd floor to ground level. Worked great.

Made cardboard tunnels for our dog. Taped several boxes together. The maze including a tray for a Scooby snack and a hole where dog can retrieve said snack. Eye holes don’t align and where for added silliness. Worked great and was fun for everyone. Each time I dropped in a treat the tong appeared

In hotel room. Bathroom hand soap is wall-mounted squirt bottle. Not a bar of soap. I didn’t know the soap was gonna blast straight out, power washer style. Sooo I “Something About Mary”ed my shorts. It squirted about 3’. Not kidding

I tired the new GitHub.com UI for a day but turned it off for now. One reason was there were a few keyboard quirks that frustrated me.

Enjoying @ycmjason.codes on @typescript.fm Good stuff.

Mom and dad want one of these. I emailed the city building dept to see if its possible purpleleafshop.com/products/pur...

Sister is moving from US Virgin Islands to my town in Illinois. She’s buying household items online and they arrive at my front porch. Today I need to go to a nearby town to pickup her turkey fryer. I’ll probably bring Wiggles.