–Took the Mustang to Osaka-Ya. Car and navigation (via Apple CarPlay and Siri) were magnificent.
–Took a swim.
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–Played with the Mustang a bit. Turns out my thinking re Mustang + Siri was muddled. Bottom line: I can use the car’s speakers to hear Siri, and Siri could play music on the phone through the speakers, but that’s about it. If I ask her to navigate she’ll do it, and I MIGHT hear her voice directions, but of course she can’t take over the screen in the car. So then I tried out the car’s navigation system. The interface is really bad. Crap.
–Took a swim.
–Went to Carmax Roseville and bought the 2017 Mustang. $46,000. Super-nice car. Hope there are no surprises lurking.
–Made pasta with tomato compote for dinner. Yum.
–Got up early. Went to Noah’s for bagels. Then to SiteOne for a manual anti-siphon valve. They only had 1″ (I think our pipe is 3/4″), but it was simple (one rubber washer instead of several) and too large is better than too small. It worked fine, and required very little tightening to stop the flow.
–Took a swim.
–Finally fixed the sprinklers for good: when I replaced the anti-siphon valve I neglected to connect the white common wire to the four solenoid common wires. Duh. All god now. Except:
–Grace heard water running into the pool, so I turned the spigot off, hard, and broke it. Turned off the water main and looked at it; it’s completely indecipherable to me, with at least three rubber gaskets where one would do. Discovered fairly quickly on the web that it’s not a pool-specific thing, but rather another irrigation anti-siphon valve–manually-controlled in this case, not solenoid. Pretty sure SiteOne will have what I need to repair it, early tomorrow after a trip to Noah’s. Meanwhile, the house water is off.
–Took Grace to the Sunrise farmers market. Bought much.
–Spent the day making (1) tomato sauce from San Marzano-like tomatoes and (2) tomato compote. Made pizza with the sauce. Added sugar to both sauce and compote. Not my best work.
–Took a swim.
–Rode with Tom Elken to canal tunnel to test headlight. Worked okay. Tested new seat also. Worked okay.
–Took a shower.
–Walked to UPS to drop off a package for brother Tom with some old Farrell photos and letters in it.
–Took a swim.
–Took a swim.
–Had dinner at Jack’s Urban Eats, then to Bel Air for all the stuff Grace/I couldn’t find at Food Maxx and Smart & Final.
–Got lunch at Togo’s. Pretty nice. Then to Smart & Final for lunch fruit and sundries.
–Watched Tomb Raider 2018. Not great.