Saturday involved outlets and zoom
May. 17th, 2025 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI walked with M.
I went to A Place for Mom and filled out a form and boy did they call me immediately, and then I wound up talking to a couple different places fairly quickly thereafter. I learned about “Respite”, and I got an explanation of why it’s such a short timeline in getting aunt C. out of rehab since she’s on a medicare “managed care” plan.
I did the rescheduled FF today. A. texted while I was waiting for anyone to show up, so I invited her. She joined a little after H., and we had a nice chat. Then P showed up, and A. and P. haven’t seen or talked in 25 years, so that was pretty wild.
I’m mostly working on going over and over and over the outlets for the new house. There’s some obviously wrong stuff, like ethernet connections in closets, almost certainly leftover from when there was a ton of low voltage dimmer wiring that would have gone to closets. Got rid of the low voltage wiring, so now there are no closets that need to support that wiring. No regrets there, let me tell you.
Also on FF, we discussed how to make all those wires for TVs look nice. I didn’t know about HDMI 2.1, or that 8K was increasingly a Thing. I do need to do more research on outlets, probably, for the usb outlets.
Not too long ago, I bought another one of those folding travel chargers. The purple one I have just has the three things (phone, earbuds, watch). The new one is (sadly) NOT purple, and has a usb-a and usb-c in front. So I set it up by my chair in the living room to make sure it really works and it does. Then I shopped for cordless LED table lamps, and found a pair that were blue that looked nice. I’m going to try to make it so I don’t need a power strip next to my chair. If the only things I have to plug in are that five-in-one charger, and an alexa device, I can get by on just the outlet, which would be awesome.
It’s weird. Going over the outlets for the new house obsessively is leading to me reducing even further my use of outlets in the current house. There’s some kind of lesson there, but I have no idea what it would be.
I also did some decluttering, mostly school paperwork from 2016 +/-. In the course of ripping out journal pages from composition books so the rest of the composition book could go over to the paper shelf, I ran across a journal entry worth keeping. The prompt was, If I could Be Anyone, and A. wrote, “I would be me, because I like myself”. I put it on the magnet board, because that is Aspirational. I love it so much.
I went to A Place for Mom and filled out a form and boy did they call me immediately, and then I wound up talking to a couple different places fairly quickly thereafter. I learned about “Respite”, and I got an explanation of why it’s such a short timeline in getting aunt C. out of rehab since she’s on a medicare “managed care” plan.
I did the rescheduled FF today. A. texted while I was waiting for anyone to show up, so I invited her. She joined a little after H., and we had a nice chat. Then P showed up, and A. and P. haven’t seen or talked in 25 years, so that was pretty wild.
I’m mostly working on going over and over and over the outlets for the new house. There’s some obviously wrong stuff, like ethernet connections in closets, almost certainly leftover from when there was a ton of low voltage dimmer wiring that would have gone to closets. Got rid of the low voltage wiring, so now there are no closets that need to support that wiring. No regrets there, let me tell you.
Also on FF, we discussed how to make all those wires for TVs look nice. I didn’t know about HDMI 2.1, or that 8K was increasingly a Thing. I do need to do more research on outlets, probably, for the usb outlets.
Not too long ago, I bought another one of those folding travel chargers. The purple one I have just has the three things (phone, earbuds, watch). The new one is (sadly) NOT purple, and has a usb-a and usb-c in front. So I set it up by my chair in the living room to make sure it really works and it does. Then I shopped for cordless LED table lamps, and found a pair that were blue that looked nice. I’m going to try to make it so I don’t need a power strip next to my chair. If the only things I have to plug in are that five-in-one charger, and an alexa device, I can get by on just the outlet, which would be awesome.
It’s weird. Going over the outlets for the new house obsessively is leading to me reducing even further my use of outlets in the current house. There’s some kind of lesson there, but I have no idea what it would be.
I also did some decluttering, mostly school paperwork from 2016 +/-. In the course of ripping out journal pages from composition books so the rest of the composition book could go over to the paper shelf, I ran across a journal entry worth keeping. The prompt was, If I could Be Anyone, and A. wrote, “I would be me, because I like myself”. I put it on the magnet board, because that is Aspirational. I love it so much.