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Saturday is quiet, sundry travel product reviews, replacement heads for oral-b
I’ll probably go wake A. up in a bit, but it’s the first weekend after school is out for her, and I just cannot imagine a better way to spend that than sleeping. I did tell her I’d be getting her up before noon so we could go buy R. a belated birthday card / present and a Father’s Day whatever. (I did take him out for two really nice dinners over the last couple days, and I made him a cake on his birthday, so it’s not like we did him wrong or anything.)
I recently dug out my electric toothbrush, determined that it still charged and worked, and then contemplated whether to list it. In the event, I instead went in search of replacement heads that were soft bristles, and I couldn’t find ones that were the correct shape (it’s an Oral B Vitality Dual Clean from 2010 that owes me absolutely nothing), but it looked like that was a standard connector so I ordered a box of very cheap replacements that purported to be soft, and are the more standard round. Seems great! I have no idea whether I’m going to keep using this or not, but I feel good about having thought about what caused me to give up on the electric toothbrush, researching possible solutions and finding one. There are a lot of things from that point in my life (given the age of the kids and what was going on with school and so forth) that weren’t working well and I abandoned them without fully completing the problem solving around them. That was the right choice at the time, but it’s incredibly satisfying as I am decluttering to find these things, and finish that process. Especially when it appears, as in this situation, to work.
Just before we left the house for the Residence Inn, I picked up the Amazon delivery out of the garage. It contained the Musicozy sleep mask, which I set up while at the hotel. It’s really pretty amazing. I haven’t decided what I’m bringing on the upcoming transatlantic, but this might be it. I also got one of those rechargeable battery usb-c oral irrigators that J. from the builder said cut her gums. I made sure the one I picked defaulted to a low setting. It is fairly effective at that lowest setting for my purposes (clearing out pockets) and it’s small enough to travel with so it’s probably going with me on future trips. I’m really happy about that. For a while, we traveled with one of the No Power ones that you attach to the faucet, but a lot of the faucets these days don’t work with the adapter. It’s nice to have this back, especially since we have some longer trips coming up over the summer. Figuring this stuff out while sitting in a hotel with nothing in particular that I had to do right away was really quite calm and relaxing.
Also in that order was a Long Enough gold-color handbag chain, that looks really nice on the Minnie barrel bag! I’m quite excited about it, especially because the chain is very light.
R. typically travels with a bullnose clip or a large foldback clip or clips, so he can make hotel blackout curtains not have that horrible line of light (which if the parking lot is well-lit can be 24 hours). This particular Residence Inn had curtains that crossed the whole window (right stack, if you care) in each room, rather than center split (they also had Somfy operators, which was interesting), so the clips were not needed (well, it would have been nice to have something on the left edge, but the clips would not fix that). Those clips are metal in whole (the bullnose) or in part (the foldback), and I’ve developed a real sensitivity to metal in carryon luggage (translation: I’d like as little reason as possible in my luggage to slow my progress through the TSA checkpoint). I was poking around in search of an alternate solution, and came across the two pack Curtain Clip Pro, which seemed mildly ridiculous but worth a shot. It arrived, and I have center split curtains in the eat-in part of my kitchen, so I tried it there and it works quite nicely. I have my doubts about what it will do on blackouts (because they can be very thick), but they are light, so I’m going to give them a try. They are also entirely plastic, which was most of the point of this exercise.
I got to thinking a lot over the last few days about the transition to renewables, batteries, regulation and resistance. I’m going to to write something about that, but this post is long enough.
I recently dug out my electric toothbrush, determined that it still charged and worked, and then contemplated whether to list it. In the event, I instead went in search of replacement heads that were soft bristles, and I couldn’t find ones that were the correct shape (it’s an Oral B Vitality Dual Clean from 2010 that owes me absolutely nothing), but it looked like that was a standard connector so I ordered a box of very cheap replacements that purported to be soft, and are the more standard round. Seems great! I have no idea whether I’m going to keep using this or not, but I feel good about having thought about what caused me to give up on the electric toothbrush, researching possible solutions and finding one. There are a lot of things from that point in my life (given the age of the kids and what was going on with school and so forth) that weren’t working well and I abandoned them without fully completing the problem solving around them. That was the right choice at the time, but it’s incredibly satisfying as I am decluttering to find these things, and finish that process. Especially when it appears, as in this situation, to work.
Just before we left the house for the Residence Inn, I picked up the Amazon delivery out of the garage. It contained the Musicozy sleep mask, which I set up while at the hotel. It’s really pretty amazing. I haven’t decided what I’m bringing on the upcoming transatlantic, but this might be it. I also got one of those rechargeable battery usb-c oral irrigators that J. from the builder said cut her gums. I made sure the one I picked defaulted to a low setting. It is fairly effective at that lowest setting for my purposes (clearing out pockets) and it’s small enough to travel with so it’s probably going with me on future trips. I’m really happy about that. For a while, we traveled with one of the No Power ones that you attach to the faucet, but a lot of the faucets these days don’t work with the adapter. It’s nice to have this back, especially since we have some longer trips coming up over the summer. Figuring this stuff out while sitting in a hotel with nothing in particular that I had to do right away was really quite calm and relaxing.
Also in that order was a Long Enough gold-color handbag chain, that looks really nice on the Minnie barrel bag! I’m quite excited about it, especially because the chain is very light.
R. typically travels with a bullnose clip or a large foldback clip or clips, so he can make hotel blackout curtains not have that horrible line of light (which if the parking lot is well-lit can be 24 hours). This particular Residence Inn had curtains that crossed the whole window (right stack, if you care) in each room, rather than center split (they also had Somfy operators, which was interesting), so the clips were not needed (well, it would have been nice to have something on the left edge, but the clips would not fix that). Those clips are metal in whole (the bullnose) or in part (the foldback), and I’ve developed a real sensitivity to metal in carryon luggage (translation: I’d like as little reason as possible in my luggage to slow my progress through the TSA checkpoint). I was poking around in search of an alternate solution, and came across the two pack Curtain Clip Pro, which seemed mildly ridiculous but worth a shot. It arrived, and I have center split curtains in the eat-in part of my kitchen, so I tried it there and it works quite nicely. I have my doubts about what it will do on blackouts (because they can be very thick), but they are light, so I’m going to give them a try. They are also entirely plastic, which was most of the point of this exercise.
I got to thinking a lot over the last few days about the transition to renewables, batteries, regulation and resistance. I’m going to to write something about that, but this post is long enough.