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The Great Pumpkin Pie Delivery
This year for Thanksgiving, we decided to spend it with my wife's family in Santa Cruz. Our son would take the train from Davis to Santa Clara and we'd pick him up at the train station. Since we were going to be seeing him, he had a list of things for us to bring him such as his camping gear, laundry soap, a suitcase so he could use it to come home on winter break and plastic containers to store leftover food. One thing he also put on the list was Costco pumpkin pie. He doesn't have a car nor a Costco membership, so he wouldn't be able to get one himself. I suspect pies will be back (or still here) when he comes back for winter break, but he wanted pumpkin pie to bring back to school.
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Stress and Ulcerative Colitis
About 24 years ago, I started having symptoms of ulcerative colitis and then was diagnosed right after I got married. I won't draw any conclusions about what caused me to develop the condition at that time. I've been keeping it under control, for the most part, primarily through medication. When I was diagnosed, there weren't that many choices; now there seem to be a bunch.
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Burning down the house (almost)
The other day, my son came to me and said his monitor wouldn't turn on when plugged into the surge protector and that the "building wiring fault" light was lit. I told him to try the surge protector in another outlet and circuit and he said that it was still lit on the same circuit, but not on other circuits.
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The wrong way to do home automation
A few weeks ago I read an article about how celebrities and famous people were ripping out home automation systems because they were hard to use and unreliable. I kind of laughed at the article because the systems that were likely created by "professionals" missed one of my main points about home automation and that is the system must augment, but not replace manual operations.
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