A day or two ago, I decided to experiment with Room Awareness for the kids’ rooms. It sort of worked, and it worked a little better when I reset A.’s device to be attached to the upstairs network. But it wasn’t recognizing cue phrases for some routines I created and I couldn’t figure out why — I could trigger the routines from the app, and they worked just fine (post network change; before network change, the lights adjusted, but the device didn’t say what I asked it to). A. really wanted it fixed this morning, and I didn’t have time, but when I went to check, it was mysteriously working. Also, the device that had been registered to R. was now registered to me (that was going to be my next attempt to fix it — switching the registration). He says he didn’t do anything. I’m at a loss, but I’m officially Not Caring, because it works. Of course, now that T. knows she has this set up, he wants it, too. I’m waiting for 3 wemo plugs so I can connect their noise machines. That way the lights can go off and the noise machine on (and vice versa) for bedtime (morning) with a single cue phrase. I doubt this is what anyone originally imagined for home automation, but I find it mysteriously awesome.
I took T. to martial arts. No one showed up for the family style last week, and after I went home, I thought, jeez, I should have asked for a private lesson, as long as no one was there. No one was there again this week, so I _did_, and we discussed what I was interested in. I, of course, had no goal at all, so I just said, “Everyone’s a white belt, right?” And off we went. 45 minute whirlwind tour of about half the white belt curriculum for that style. One kick was brand new, because what I used to do was really opposed to kicking any higher than belt level. Other than that, everything was a variation on something at least somewhat familiar, which has good aspects and bad aspects. R. wants to try a lesson or two, also. If we can convince A. to come along, we could all go. That might be fun. It’s also really nice because I can more meaningfully answer T.’s questions about things, altho of course he’s ahead of me in the curriculum so it would take a while for me to catch up. Right now, he’ll be answering my questions. ;-)
ETA: I made the Rosy Drink again, but this time, I added 1 ounce of simple syrup, had R. run some ice through his fancy ice crusher. He filled a tall glass with the ice and I poured the drink over it. Very pretty, very very tasty, and I’m now looking forward to the next time someone comes over who likes fruity / sweet drinks so I can try this out on them. Tomorrow, I want to try the Del Maguey Crema instead of vodka. That should crank the sweetness up even further, but might have a little more complexity than the vodka, without being as overwhelming as the reposado that we tried earlier.
I took T. to martial arts. No one showed up for the family style last week, and after I went home, I thought, jeez, I should have asked for a private lesson, as long as no one was there. No one was there again this week, so I _did_, and we discussed what I was interested in. I, of course, had no goal at all, so I just said, “Everyone’s a white belt, right?” And off we went. 45 minute whirlwind tour of about half the white belt curriculum for that style. One kick was brand new, because what I used to do was really opposed to kicking any higher than belt level. Other than that, everything was a variation on something at least somewhat familiar, which has good aspects and bad aspects. R. wants to try a lesson or two, also. If we can convince A. to come along, we could all go. That might be fun. It’s also really nice because I can more meaningfully answer T.’s questions about things, altho of course he’s ahead of me in the curriculum so it would take a while for me to catch up. Right now, he’ll be answering my questions. ;-)
ETA: I made the Rosy Drink again, but this time, I added 1 ounce of simple syrup, had R. run some ice through his fancy ice crusher. He filled a tall glass with the ice and I poured the drink over it. Very pretty, very very tasty, and I’m now looking forward to the next time someone comes over who likes fruity / sweet drinks so I can try this out on them. Tomorrow, I want to try the Del Maguey Crema instead of vodka. That should crank the sweetness up even further, but might have a little more complexity than the vodka, without being as overwhelming as the reposado that we tried earlier.