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Things are a little better this week. They picked up all the cardboard I left out for recycling on Monday (not all that I had because I ran out of spoons before I ran out of cardboard to drag out), my left eye is doing better thanks to eyelid wipes and (hypochlorous acid)eye bleach, and I finally got around to firing up the Raspberry Pi 4 that I bought a couple of weeks ago.

Turning the Pi into a combination print and storage server will be fairly trivial; the hardest part, really, will be picking out one of the various configuration options I'm considering. In other words, my usual decision paralysis. Tune in next week to see whether I actually do it.

Meanwhile N has acquired a folding mobility scooter, G rented an eBike and plans to buy one next week, and we're still looking at 2-person, car-like scooters (though I'm skeptical about their practicality in our location).

We've been granting the cats a little more freedom to roam the house (mainly because Bronx is something of an escape artists, and Brooklyn yowls to be let out in the morning). It does require somebody on the ground floor -- me, because I pretty reliably get up the earliest -- to make sure they stay off of un-approved surfaces.

( Notes & links, as usual )