Last night, in the
middle of the night, I was yanked from my slumber by the sound of a
blaring alarm. It went silent a short time later and I was quickly
able to forget about it and fall back to sleep. It happened again
around six o'clock in the morning. I made it to my door this time
before it went silent and I ended up back in bed until much later.
It turns out, one of
the fire alarms upstairs is acting up. In order to get the alarm to
stop you have to push the button on it but sometimes this results in
a test which sets off all the alarms in the house and warms of a fire
and then warns of carbon monoxide. My mom didn't know this at the
time so when it warned of carbon monoxide she ended up turning off
the furnace and opening a window. We eventually decided the detector
was just being a dick. This afternoon it started chirping like they
do when a battery is low, which really freaks the dogs out.
Apparently it isn't a battery thing because when a battery is low the
detector actually says that, it doesn't just beep. I ended up
pushing the button and found out about the test cycle thing. That
worked for awhile but then it started chirping again so I switched
out the batteries. Eventually it started happening again so I
unplugged it and took it off the ceiling. There is another detector
maybe two feet away in the next room so there isn't much worry there.
After taking it down I learned about all the beeping stuff because
it has information on the back of the detector, but no instruction
manual. I'm going to try cleaning it out with some compressed air,
because maybe it got dusty or something during construction, but if
that doesn't work, we should be fine without it, at least for awhile.
Today involved a lot
of unproductive avoidance of writing my reflective journal. I did
eventually get about three or four hundred words written, which is
good, but also bad because I'm way over the upper limit of a thousand
words per entry. My method has involved basically summarizing
everything while adding in the occasional reflective comment. I
think maybe I need to give a brief overview of the topic and then
pick one or two things to talk about, going into more detail on those
things, rather than quickly talking about all of the things. I'm not
sure if I'm just going to cut out stuff from what I've already
written or just rewrite the whole thing. I don't have much time to
figure it out so that should keep me from dwelling on the choice for
too long.
I also did laundry
and listened to This American Life
while trying to distract myself from writing. I tried Type
to Learn but it turns out you
need an internet connection. That makes sense but it would be nice
to have an offline option.
Tonight
we had a family dinner night. Chinese food is delicious. I got
steamed rice and broccoli, rice noodles, and french fries. French
fries are a must when ordering Chinese.
After
dinner I came over to the old house. I restarted my computer and now
I have sound again, so that is nice. I don't mind wearing my
headphones but they get a little hot after awhile. I got an email
from my group member doing the presentation that she almost had it
done yesterday and that she would email it when she finished.
Haven't heard back so hopefully everything is still good. She's got
until next weekend so there's plenty of time.
At
the moment I am distracted by YouTube videos and I need to head back
to the new house, so I'm going to call this good.
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