After a weird day of airplanes and a weird sleeping pattern, everything seems to be back to normal. The washing machine is running at full capacity, the printer has been upgraded—a Postscript-SIMM for my Laserjet 5N arrived during my absence—and all bills have been paid.
I also installed a new shower head (the old one was a solid block of deposited minerals) and a new mirror in my bathroom. The old mirror was a composition of "mirror tiles" so I could never quite see myself without a seam somewhere in the middle, so this gives me a whole new perspective on