This is a small alder.
A really hard day. I was tangling with Arthur multiple times over the accuracy of his memory versus mine. I really desperately try not to argue about it, but generally by the time I realize it’s going to be a point of contention, I’ve already declared what I think happened, and I’m just not sufficiently wishy-washy to specifically concede a point of my own memory that I have confidence in and that I’ve already staked a claim to.
Specific example: watching a TV episode this evening of the British series George Gently. Arthur asserted that my memory was faulty when I stated that I remembered watching the episode with him last year. He claims that since the episode wasn’t in his on-computer video library (iTunes) until he added it today, there’s no way we could have watched it last year. But he also utterly forgets that in the meanwhile, he completely deleted his video library on his external hard drive (by accident, last year) and subsequently rebuilt it. There were many shows and episodes on the previous version of the library that were “lost.”
Another difficult thing that happened: the house’s fire alarm went off, multiple times. We had no fires, nor even dust or smoke beyond anything normal. Just random stuff. Arthur got extremely angry when I asked him for the manual because I really wanted to turn off the fire alarm, but he had no idea where he might have one. The fire alarms were very loud, and the first time they went off it took 20 minutes to get them turned off (by uninstalling them from their ceiling mountings manually). The second time, we were able to do this faster.
I guess we have a problem. Alan asserts we’d best off going back to an un-networked, battery-powered set of fire alarms. The fact of their being networked makes it almost impossible to troubleshoot as a system. I’m inclined to agree.
I’m just feeling really resentful and angry, right now.
[daily log: walking, 2km]