Thursday, September 24, 2026

Just one more day

I seem to be writing all very personal stuff, and this post continues the theme.

5.30 this morning I sensed Jass jumping off my bed and my door creaked as she opened if further. She has no set sleeping place. The night before, it was with Phyllis and Kosov.

A sound intruded into my slumber. I had to get up to find out the new smoke detector outside our bedroom doors was doing a flat battery beep. There was nothing I could do about it without making a noise and disturbing Phyllis and Kosov.

Little did I know the sound began at about 4.30 and Kosov timed it at every 38 seconds. I couldn't return to sleep with the beep still happening, so I was up at 5.30. At some point after I arose at such an absurd hour, I closed their bedroom door and Kosov went back to sleep. 

AI told me to remove the battery, disconnect the hard wiring and press the button to discharge the capacitor. I knew if I called the electrician who installed the detectors, they would come immediately but I bided my time until the lads woke.

It was then that I heard about Kosov's experience. Phyllis snored on. Kosov pressed the button on the detector and he thought it worked to kill the sound No Kosov, don't put the steps away yet. Sure enough, the chirping restarted. 

We could not work out how to open the detector but eventually Youtube helped us. Kosov removed the battery and we waited a minute or so and put the battery back and all was well. It seems we had fully drained the detector's capacitor. 

My car needed a wash after our trip to the country, with quite a number of smashed bugs, along with dirt and dust. Removing bug smatterings from your windscreen is not successful at an automatic car wash, so it needed a hand car wash, much more expensive.

I told Kosov I was taking the no good filthy non binary whore Perl to be cleansed and he was hysterical with laughter. My delivery of the words must have been good. 

Perl was sparkling after her good cleansing. I won't say how much it cost. I might use the service twice a year, normally after a country trip.

Later there was another visit by a 'tradesperson' to give me a quote.

But let me tell you, Phyllis arose beaming this morning. Kosov has suggested a nice place they could go to eat on Tuesday night and they trammed to town and then caught a 70 tram along Flinders Street, which seemed odd to Phyllis, but he left Kosov in charge. Once they reached John Cain Arena, Kosov told Phyllis, we are getting off here. At this point Phyllis knew what was happening. Kosov had bought a surprise ticket for them to see a K Pop group perform to a huge audience. Phyllis adores the girl group. He was absolutely over the moon to see the group perform live. A little minimal usage of AI, not killing the planet, tells me the name of the group is Mamamoo.

Delicious spicy chicken drumsticks with a salad for dinner.  

Do you reckon my day ended there? Nope. At about 8.30pm I stepped out onto the balcony and I felt my socks get wet. Water was flooding down from somewhere above. I suspected the apartment above, the place where the hose burst last March and I hoped it wasn't a repeat of interior flooding. I went up the stairs and knocked on the door and it was answered by a lad who wasn't there in March. He was washing down his balcony with buckets of water. I pointed out the effect to my balcony and that body corporate rules prohibit any water falling from your balcony. He was very apologetic. 

But then there is the Fetch TV drama from the morning. That's worth a full post, and HH's daughter, OAM, having childish fun in London. 

18 comments:

  1. Oh goodness, I do hope that I didn't put the mock on the smoke alarms!! Nothing worse than unexpected wet socks (well, there probably are, but its 6am and the time for hyperbole).
    I actually heard rain this morning - was very happy about it, until I realised it was the shower running. Darn. We could do with wet socks here.

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  2. Don't you have to turn off the power to the smoke detector first at the fuse box before disconnecting the hard wiring? Just wondering. I always do but maybe that's not so necessary.

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    1. Yes Strayer. It is part of the light circuit but as we didn't disconnect the wires, it was fine to remove and replace the backup battery. Nevertheless, we turned the circuit off anyway.

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  3. Your life is way too exciting!

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  4. Never a dull moment at your place! Bunyip

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  5. Change of the season, sure bring in a new set of bugs.

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  6. I am impressed that you so deftly handled detector capacitators, filthy whores and wet socks...and all in the same day, too!

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  7. I am not a KPop fan but what a wonderful surprise for Phyllis! Well done Kosov. Bugs can be removed from a windscreen by covering the whole screen with wet newspapers and leaving for ten minutes to "soak", then wipe it all off and shine the windscreen with dry newspapers. But your method is better, have someone else do the cleaning. How annoying to have the detector go off and to get wet socks too. What a day. MammaMoo puts me in mind of MillyMoo, wondering how she is doing.

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    1. But who actually has a stock of newsprint around the house any more? I don't. Such "papers" as come my way are generally on glossier magazine paper of one sort or another.

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    2. Thanks for the tip unknown to me River but I believe I made the right decision.

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    3. MC, when Bone Doctor last visited she brought with her a copy of the day's The Age newspaper and left it here. I decided I would put it away for possible future use.

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  8. I'm thinking you are enjoying having the two young men there living with you Andrew. I believe they make your days and they are someone to share things with and you all help each other - that is just lovely.

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  9. I'll join in with Kosovo's hysterical laughter.

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  10. A wonderfully chaotic day of family life, from the 5.30am smoke alarm to Kosov’s delightful surprise for Phyllis and the inevitable balcony drama at night.

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  11. I can't remember the last time I had my car washed.

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  12. The concert was a sweet surprise; your wet balcony, not so much. Be well!

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