Tear-Jerker
15:57 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
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This is one of the scenes in the season finale of Ted Lasso that really got me in the feels. I watched the finale again yesterday with Mitzi and it had lost none of its affect on me.
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14:34 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
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I wandered up the new house to see what they were up to. I looked out over the landscape from what will be our front window and decided I needed to go back down and come back with a camera.
Put a few up on Flickr. Thanks for the fave and the comment, Jack!
It can be pretty cloudy sometimes, but when the sun's shining...
Wow.
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08:17 Wednesday, 14 October 2026
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Why is it so friggin' hot in October! 80° yesterday, forecast nearly that today. I just put away all my summer clothes! So, of course. Why am I even asking?
The CPAP adventure continues. I gave it another try last night and ripped it off my face about 90 minutes after I put it on. I think I may have actually fallen asleep at some point, but I'm not sure. I never have trouble falling asleep at bedtime. I lie down, think about something I like and I'm out. Minutes. With that face-hugger wrapped around my nose, all I can think about is how much I hate this thing, so of course I can't fall asleep.
The machine keeps nagging me to install the My Air app, another piece of corporate spyware to intrude into my life. Trying to give this thing a good-faith shot, I figured I'd install the app and see what tips it had.
NOPE!
First you must create an account!
Because of course.
So I start trying to create an account and I get to the part where they want my date of birth. How do you enter that data? But using a date picker. Can't just type it in. So how is the date picker configured? Well, it starts at a month in like 1997, and the only thing you can do is swipe one month at a time! I was born in 1957! You want me to sit there and swipe my thumb 480 times??!! I tried swiping fast thinking it'd develop some acceleration in the UI. Nope.
Exasperated, I closed the date picker thinking I must have missed something in the date field...
Nope. Can't do anything but disclose the date picker.
Which I did.
And it reopens to 1997 again!
I deleted the app.
How much contempt must you have for your users to deploy an app like that? Fuck Res Med.
Moving on...
Apple apologists, and you know who you are, please explain to me this Homeview device and it's price structure. Let's see, I can get the one with the woofer that I can set on a table somewhere for $299, or, I can get one that mounts on a wall without a woofer for the same $299! Oh, and you can't just mount it to the wall, you have to spend at least another $79 for the mounting hardware!
Make it make sense.
Fuck Apple.
Moving on...
Last night's insomnia was inspired by HVAC, again. Mitzi got home yesterday and a lot has changed in the house since she left, with the roof on, it really alters your perspective of the space, actually making it feel larger. That's a good thing.
We were looking at the little laundry area we have on the main floor. It was originally intended to hold a stacked washer and dryer and a deep sink. Then we realized we had to route the ducting from the ERV down to the mechanical room somehow.
No problem, plenty of room for a soffit overhead, and we can just route it to the stairwell wall and down through laundry floor.
Except that pretty much eliminates any option for a deep sink or even a cabinet with a top for folding laundry. That's if the stairwell wall lands where we can get the ducts between two trusses. And looking at the trusses at that wall, that's probably not feasible.
I came up with the idea of making a false wall at the back of the stairwell, so the ducting can go right through the laundry room through the original stairwell wall in an overhead soffit, and then down below the trusses, making another 90° turn into the mechanical room.
I can't believe how lucky we got with that extra course of ICF block giving us 9'-4" ceilings in the basement, because we're going to need some of that in the stairwell to get below the trusses without bumping our heads.
I'm still not sure it'll work, because I'm just visualizing it in my head, and I'm sure I'm missing something. (As I'm sitting here, I realize a false wall is going to intrude on the landing at the bottom of the basement, so it's got to end somehow below the trusses and it has to somewhat not look stupid in the process.)
In all my research about building high-performance homes, nobody mentioned how critical your HVAC design is, not just from a performance standpoint but from a ductwork design standpoint.
Fuckers.
Moving on...
On the brighter side, my OM System PEN camera is supposed to arrive today, according to FedEx who is informing me that I must be here to sign for it. Luckily, I have nothing else to do today but sit around and wait for FedEx again, like I did last week when I had to wait for a >$100K check from the credit union because criminals have made it nearly impossible to move money electronically. FedEx is faster than fiber in that instance.
Fucking criminals.
The beat goes on...
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