We hired a handyman to take care of a list of home stuff that we just weren’t getting to ourselves.
- Install new smoke alarms (Kidde changed the mount for them since our old ones, for no good reason)
- Repaint the mailbox (the HOA was sending us threatening letters about it)
- Fix a broken foot on an antique chest
- Replace a door in the garage which had gotten water in it and was rotting
- Put new rubber on the bottoms of a few external doors to keep the bugs out and the air conditioning in
It’s really good to have all this done.
Meanwhile, I realized there were two iPhone games that were pointlessly sucking up my time. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was really cute while it had some degree of interaction with other players, but they dropped that last year, and I had been playing it for eight years by now. Doing the monthly events was a simple, mindless way to stop thinking about anything that was bothering me; but every month had the exact same three events. The other game was a zombie shooter named Last Z that I started playing a month or two ago; the parts where you’re marching down the street shooting zombies and collecting powerups was fun, but as the game progressed it turned into lots of tapping on a map to collect resources and upgrade buildings, and that became tedious. I’d estimate I was spending maybe half an hour each day on these two games together. I dumped ’em cold turkey, and I feel good about that.