Ominously Close to Done
Jun. 15th, 2024 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperThe pre-trip laundry is almost done. The house is about as clean as it is going to get.
There was a brief bit of panic earlier today when I was showing the thermostat to the person who will be staying here with Ruby and Sunshine while we are gone, as the display started flashing the low battery message. That was fine -- I replaced the batteries. Except that it *kept* flashing the low battery message. This is not so good.
Well, I had already planned a trip to Home Depot after lunch to get a replacement screw for the cabinet in the back bathroom, as one of the screws had gone missing on the door that I've been trying to fix. I could *buy* a new thermostat and install it before I left.
There are a lot of thermostats.
Eventually, I found one that is similar to the current one -- better thermostats require low-voltage power, which I don't think we have wired up there. Then I went to look for the screw. The knowledgeable person in the department escaped with another customer. The not-so-knowledgeable person couldn't find the odd screw I was looking for. I finally gave up, which made K happy.
I grabbed the cart, looked at the shelf on the other side of the aisle, and there were the screws I was looking for. Screws with a weird star head, but I now have 100 of them with the bit included, and the door is now back on the cabinet.
Meanwhile, the thermostat has stopped flashing the low battery message, so it may just have taken an old capacitor a while to catch up with the new battery. I don't know.
If it behaves itself while we are on vacation, the new (still sealed!) thermostat can be returned.
When we get back.
Time to go pack now. :)
There was a brief bit of panic earlier today when I was showing the thermostat to the person who will be staying here with Ruby and Sunshine while we are gone, as the display started flashing the low battery message. That was fine -- I replaced the batteries. Except that it *kept* flashing the low battery message. This is not so good.
Well, I had already planned a trip to Home Depot after lunch to get a replacement screw for the cabinet in the back bathroom, as one of the screws had gone missing on the door that I've been trying to fix. I could *buy* a new thermostat and install it before I left.
There are a lot of thermostats.
Eventually, I found one that is similar to the current one -- better thermostats require low-voltage power, which I don't think we have wired up there. Then I went to look for the screw. The knowledgeable person in the department escaped with another customer. The not-so-knowledgeable person couldn't find the odd screw I was looking for. I finally gave up, which made K happy.
I grabbed the cart, looked at the shelf on the other side of the aisle, and there were the screws I was looking for. Screws with a weird star head, but I now have 100 of them with the bit included, and the door is now back on the cabinet.
Meanwhile, the thermostat has stopped flashing the low battery message, so it may just have taken an old capacitor a while to catch up with the new battery. I don't know.
If it behaves itself while we are on vacation, the new (still sealed!) thermostat can be returned.
When we get back.
Time to go pack now. :)