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    Our robot Eufy vacuum hates the sun. When it hits a sunny spot on the floor, it thinks it is a drop off and reverses course.

    I've spoken with Eufy support and they know off this quirk. The solution seems to be "vacuum when it isn't sunny" which works for me. Yoof was under $100 and does more than its share of the dust removal.

    We put googly eyes on it to anthropomorphize it like any self-respecting robot owner does. If it hates the sun then I am wondering if some vampire teeth are in order.

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    I probably should learn the name of the procedure I had before I had it done. Looks like what I was calling "giant weird red bump on my back" is actually called a cherry angioma.

    So zonked from the pain medication and other fun pills but stoked I got it done in time for our show on the 28th. 

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    Every time I read "It's crazy this song/album wasn't a huge hit" in an album description in Apple Music, one of these three things seems to be true:

    1. The song has a title that no radio DJ can make sound cool.
    2. The band is heavy but the band name is less than heavy.
    3. The album cover looks like the designer was a nice person who probably should work a little harder on making dragons look more realistic.

    By the way, here's to you people who write music descriptions of any sort. It is a difficult thing to do typing words about sounds.

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    When I got to the end of recording 150 sentences into my iPhone, I was a little hoarse. Also not knowing 100% what I would use my Personal Voice for.

    It took a looooooong time for it to finish process because your phone needs to be on a charger and locked.

    When it was done I typed a random sentence for it to read as Me and it sounded like me for sure.

    My first reaction to hearing it was that it's cool that if I ever have a problem with my voice, I have a backup now.

    My second thought was I can have it read all the content I want to do on a possible YouTube channel I am teetering on doing.

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    Usually we do Osouji (大掃除) at the end of the year but this year we decided to start in on it a couple weeks early. We'll do the actual washing of things the last day or two. Today we got started on the decluttering.

    My "system" for this task is running things through two questions:

    1. What is it?
    2. Where does it live?

    When I stuck to that, things got done. When I deviated, distraction set in.