It was a busy and productive day today. We had our blinds cleaned and restrung; I booked a hotel in Porto for our trip next spring; Diane finished a photo album from our trip to Costa Rica and Panama in the Just Before Times and got it ordered in time to get a 50% discount; I wrote a speech for tomorrow’s Toastmasters meeting; and Diane had the honor of making the first meal on our new cooktop – omelettes. She said it was different than using the old cooktop but not too terrifying. :-)

It’ll be my turn to cook on the new cooktop tomorrow.

Our new cooktop arrived and was installed today! The installation went smoothly (I wasn’t in the kitchen when they were working, but I didn’t hear any unexpected noises or swearing), and it looks good. I tested it and made sure all the burners worked, but we haven’t used it to cook yet – we weren’t sure whether it would be installed before dinner, so we planned a meal that didn’t need the cooktop.

While we were waiting for the installers, I had to turn off “Block Unknown Callers” on my phone, so I wound up answering two spam callers this afternoon. Both were real people, not recordings. One was from “Pain Relief Center”, claiming to be a follow-up call; the other claimed to be from CVS and told me that Medicare had “short-listed me” for some kind of heart test for free. I almost miss the auto warranty calls!