I posted early last night so that I could get off the computer and ignore the election news. It’s not that I wasn’t interested, it’s that I knew that the returns would trickle in all night, that there would be pundits filling the time with information-light prognostications, and that watching wouldn’t improve my sleep.

Instead, we watched some of our backlog of Young Sheldon and Call Me Kat – not the most intellectual shows on TV (especially the latter), but just what we needed.

Today, we got our windows cleaned for the first time in quite a while. I’d found Pioneer Services through Consumers’ Checkbook, and they lived up to their reviews. Our windows are so clean that we’ll have to use curtains again!

And this evening, I went to the Shir Hadash Mens’ Club annual dinner and saw a very interesting documentary: 9th Circuit Cowboy, about Harry Pregerson, who served on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for more than 40 years. He was a real mensch – someone who used the law for good.

Back on Halloween, I confessed that I’d accidentally spilled DEET on my Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000M2 while I was in Africa and that I’d sent it off to Lumix Pro Services to see if they could fix it.

They couldn’t. They described the camera as “Unrepairable per heavy liquid damage – caused parts to glue together” and offered me a choice:

• Pay $50 for the diagnosis and $15 for return shipping
• Pay two-thirds of the price of a new camera for an exchange unit

I took the second option, and FedEx says that the replacement camera should be here on Monday. I even have its serial number already!

I expect the learning curve to be pretty shallow.