Unexciting Stories - 10

Unexciting stories … sporadic news and commentary of no interest to anyone. Mundanity is always the primary focus. Let the unexcitement begin …

Tropical Storm Moke completely bypassed the island. No rainfall and no gusty winds. The heatwave, however, continues unabated. The air conditioner in the mausoleum in the “old folks home” in Waikiki runs continuously upon arrival from town in the afternoon until the next morning,

A new Cologuard® colon cancer screening kit was received on Monday. The samples were taken early Tuesday morning, boxed up, and dispatched to the UPS Store® in town. Will it be rejected again?

The skin cancer candidate has gone through a strange metamorphosis. Over the course of three days (commencing on Tuesday), the scaly aberration fell off in two pieces. Only the old man spot remains. The aberration did not look like a scab. Nor was there any observed injury to cause a scab to form. So, a message was dispatched to the attending physician at the Ohua Climic on Thursday to ask whether the dermatology appointment should be cancelled.

Quality of sleep degraded significantly commencing on Monday. The cause is unknown. However, spending so much time in the mausoleum has probably taken a toll on the psyche. The boredom would drive anyone “nuts.” There’s no real furniture. The decor is similar to a prison cell. Well, it’s a mausoleum.

The box for the Cuisinart® microwave oven is still sitting on the floor next to the Room Essentials® dish chair in the mausoleum, almost a year since the latter was purchased. It serves as an end table of sorts. How much more pathetic can the mausoleum decor get?

All Proton services (VPN, mail, etc.) were down globally on Wednesday morning for several hours. That was a first for Proton. The cause was identified as a cooling failure at its Frankfurt data center. To its credit, Proton had all services operational by the evening.

Filter cleaning for the air conditioner in the mausoleum occurred on Thursday afternoon after the alert indicator lit up on the front panel the night before. The cooling radiator was also cleaned and vacuumed. The flow control panels for the outflow duct were also removed. Lots of black crap was observed inside the appliance.

Previously, the assumption was that the latter comprised the accumulation of dirt and dust. Only a modest attempt was made to clean it. However, for some reason, this time the assumption was that the latter was actually black mold. So, a spray bottle of Up&Up® Cleaner + Bleach was procured for $3.50 (not on sale) at Target® during the afternoon outing. Sure enough, upon liberally spraying the entire outflow duct, the black crap disappeared. So, dangerous black mold was allowed to fester all this time. Sheesh!