November 30th

I started out playing with the new fondleslab, and got it working so that it can finish doing its setup before I went to work.

November 29th

I started out the day playing with the new smoke alarms... I have 3 set up and working, 1 not working and 2 still in their boxes.  The non-working one still didn't work, so I tried the others, and they didn't work either.  Joy!  I called Nest, and the guy wasn't really much help, so I suggested I restart everything and call them back if that didn't work.  I tried setting static IPs for the Nests (I can get the MAC address from the router, so they are joining my 2.4GHz network), but that didn't help, so I called them back.  This time I got cut off when they were passing me through to a specialist, so I called back again and got Heather.  After a few tries of doing this and that, she suggested renaming my 5GHz network, as I was pretty sure my phone was on that, and the Nest Protects only talk on 2.4GHz.  Good to know - I've seen the thermostat switch to 5GHz.  That got the 2 alarms I'd unboxed today to work, but the last one still didn't work.  They'll just send me a replacement.  Off the phone, I got the alarms installed on the roof - in the hallway, art and critter rooms that's just a set of steps, but in the kitchen I did my usual climb on top of the fridge, crawl along the ledge thing and installed the new alarm there.  In the bedroom, I needed the long ladder, which I don't like using at the best of times.  Anyway, it's done now, so all I need is the new alarm and I'll install that in the guest room and I'm set.

My new fondleslab (yay! Black Friday sales!) arrived, so I left that updating and charging and went to work.  I played with it a bit after work, and it sees our network as not connected to the interweb, so I left it for the night.

November 28th

After being woken up a few weeks ago by a smoke alarm beeping for a new backup battery,  I've bought new smoke alarms, as apparently they only last 10 years, and I've been here for 16.  Anyway, they arrived today, so I got started installing them.  You do all the WiFi setup to the first one, then they should be able to sync themselves.  I got 2 set up, then the next 2 would fail when "adding to your Nest account".  Sounds like a problem with their account system, so I ended up calling them about it.  We managed to get one to work, but the next one wouldn't, so we agreed to leave it a few hours like the error message suggested.  Just as well, as I needed to get set for work anyway.

November 27th

The new battery for the Roomba came in, so I took that apart and replaced the old one.  Without charging it, I set it out to vacuum up the pet hair, and it ran for about an hour and half before the battery died (vs about 5 minutes on the old battery), so I think we'll call that fixed.

November 26th

I started the day trying to figure out what to do with myself, as it was raining, then remembered that I get to work today.  Oh well, hopefully the weather's better on Friday, when I should have the day off.

November 25th

I'd intended to go flying, but the forecast showed the visibility disappearing down to 2 miles (illegal to fly VFR), even though it didn't look too bad from the house.  In the end, I changed the reversing bulbs in the van for some little white LED panels I've had in my "projects" box for a while, as the last time I reversed at night, I couldn't see anything behind me.

We watched several episodes of "Vikings", including several repeats of a damned Buick advert _each_break_.  We've decided that advert costs on the History channel's streaming service are low, and that we should advertise something.

November 24th

I took the washing machine apart again to fix a rattle created by my leaving a clip loose, and found where the left over screw went :o)

We went to the airport and took the plane out for a bit.  Didn't go far, as it was starting to get foggy around us.

In the evening, we watched "Get Out".