Fortunately, things have improved a lot on most vehicles to last a lot longer.
Unfortunately, there are still some brands that appear to be built to only last as long as a typical lease.

My wife bought me a simple “On Air” LED sign that I have above/behind my desk that I kick on when my office door is open so my kiddo and Mrs have a visual indicator when I’m on a call or in the middle of something. Plug into a USB port on the back of a monitor, and never have to worry about batteries.

Umbrellas are a great investment. We use a pair - one over our table, and a second we bring out that goes on our grilling cart. When the sun gets lower in the afternoons/evenings, we tilt the umbrella on the cart to help cover things so we don’t have the table umbrella close to anyone’s head and give more even…

Oh heck, why didn’t I think of it earlier - a bilge pump! Many come with a float switch built in, they come in a bunch of different sizes, GPH ratings, etc, and pretty inexpensive!

I had thought maybe something like this, meant for mini split units may be applicable, the smaller piece would sit in the tray with the larger piece able to have some flexibility to where it would be mounted.

I’m curious if a condensate pump may be better suited for the drain side - it uses a float switch to operate, so less risk of it running dry and no need to setup timing. It will be a little more expensive than a cheap pond pump, but I’m thinking may be better suited for the job?

I can only hope the song makes it to the new series.

I like the way you think..

Well heck, now that I have been making regular crunchwraps at home for a while, the circle is now nearly complete.
Final stage: Dessert crunchwrap..

All good! That’s what I figured, it will need some tweaking and experimenting. Worst case I save the rest of the cherries for more mead :)

We used cherries, which is a departure from the recipe (kiddo wanted cherry, who am I to deny them?), I wonder if the amount of pectin influenced things. We did leave them in the freezer for 24 hours, checked again at 42, and now a few more days later still soft.

Experimentation is half the fun!

Well, things I learned the hard way - use 1/4tbsp, not 1/2tbsp, for popsicles. Our first batch came out tasting great, but very much not the hard popsicles we had imagined! Oh well, we’ll finish these up and try again.

We waited until we could watch a movie at home without multiple bathroom trips, jumping around, etc. It became pretty fun honestly putting together a home movie night, especially over the pandemic. Some popcorn, turning off all the lights, etc. We first then took advantage of the cheap kids focused movies our local…

Chat with your librarians! Sometimes they don’t know there’s demand for titles unless someone asks. And, I know here we can catalog search and if our local library doesn’t have something, we can get it transferred from another library in our system, usually turned around in a day or so if it’s not already loaned out.
Oh…

Don’t forget your local library. A lot of libraries during the pandemic significantly increased their offerings of streaming content (beyond the physical discs you can pick up). Around here access is through services like Hoopla, but with your free library card there’s a lot to access.
Your library is worth a visit…

I seem to remember retrofit kits being around for water heaters and boilers at one point (maybe still?)

Older than the 90's.
Even in the 90's, the only time I ran into them were specifically older homes, cabins, etc.

To be fair, I have lived with gas stoves most of my life, and none of them had pilot lights - they all had electronic ignition, just like our gas water heaters. As far as I know, you can’t buy a stove that has a pilot light anymore.