We never had great luck with dishwashers(Maybe the space isn't big enough or something?) but mostly there are just two of us.

Oooh, glad you're finally getting the dishwasher installed!

I was a rinser until I watched a Technology Connections on YT about this very subject. Now I am a happy non-rinser whose dishes come out sparkly anyway, because dishwashers... work. Vehemently a powder or liquid user instead of pods, though because of a different Technology Connections episode.

Productive day, yay! Fun class tonight, also yay, except I have homework to do that I haven't done yet. But it's writing dialog, and I don't find that hard -- I mean, it might not be any good at all, but I don't struggle getting the words on the paper for straight-up dialog, and I especially don't care whether it's good when the whole purpose is to practicing writing dialog to get better at it, if you get what I'm saying.

I completely spaced on a therapy appointment today, because I was getting a thing done for work, but she stayed on the video call, and I finally looked at the clock, and she VERY kindly offered to reschedule until tomorrow.

I have now set phone alarms to supplement my calendar notification on the computer which, apparently, I ignore at will, and I should probably change the setting so that it pops up no matter what. Grumble.

A working dishwasher is a glorious thing indeed.

Especially considering that SF does compost collection.

That's the best, man. I'd love curbside compost collection.

Almost as good is that the city picks up yard waste every other week from April through the second week of January (so people with live Christmas trees can put them on the curb), and that is a goddamn delight.

My lower back doesn't want to stretch out despite me throwing yoga at it. V. annoying. Why even *do* yoga, I ask you.

Timelies all!

I need to take the vacuum cleaner to be repaired. It doesn't have much suction going on. There's a little when it's in floor mode, but none when I try to use the attachments.

It doesn't have much suction going on.

Ours had this problem and Emmett started taking it apart and discovered it was clogged with hay from the piggy cage.

One of the great luxuries of San Francisco living is I can leave a spoon with honey on it in the sink and it won't have roaches on it two minutes later.

But what about ants? Because around here that's how you get ants.

Yay dishwasher! They are the best. I need to rinse because I don't run it more than once a week, basically.

ION, on 911 Lone Star, Gina Torres's character is dating her new minister, DB Woodside. Well, my church is going to be hiring a new minister, and this is just giving me IDEAS. (Although the odds my church would hire a straight man are pretty low.)

But what about ants? Because around here that's how you get ants.

I was waiting for this!

Oh that’s definitely how you get ants!

We pay for a private company to pick up our compost but it’s worth it. You can drop off at a place at the farmers market but I can’t stand the smell

But what about ants? Because around here that's how you get ants.

Nope. No ants. Except in winter if it's been exceptionally wet they'll try to come indoors but otherwise SF is relatively bug free.