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Yesterday, my iron caught fire. So that wasn’t great.

I’m fine, the house is fine, no other damage. Just an alarming crackling noise and some kind of error code beeping as smoke started pouring out of the thing and the crackling intensified. Unplugged and ran it outside. 🤬

Okay.

At work I found yet another instance of it not deleting something that should have been deleted. Cache invalidation can go suck angry bees. Snack, then I called a bunch of numbers on the lead abatement contractor list. One guy seemed game until I mentioned repointing, which he doesn’t do, and his approach to exterior abatement is to paint over the stuff, which would be pretty silly to do before repointing and wouldn’t help the situation now to do after repointing. Left messages with three other places. My officemate is moving to a new job in HCII, and apparently moving offices too — he dropped in for a final pickup of stuff, but also to drop off a thankyou gift for connecting him with my old PI. Very sweet.

I finished Monster In My Closet; meh. Started a different series, Rebel Belle. Some complicated feels about topics that have been historically ridiculed for being important to young women (makeup, cheerleading, social status, homecoming, cotillion). Then things started getting supernatural, and my psyche is 100% on board with that, so I guess crisis resolved?

Home, did a shitton of research on irons. The operative descriptor for an iron that does not have steam holes in the plate is “dry”; tmyk ✨. Phillips makes a pile of different ones but nobody sells them for the US market ??? so based on Amazon reviews I ordered a black & decker dry iron from ebay and we’ll see how we do. The oster and a couple of random brands seem to be more variable/crap out in the first year/don’t get hot enough.

Dinner, crossword, Legends, snack, sleep.