Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. I went to sleep at 4 AM. I woke up at 09:50 AM. Breakfast: 10:20 AM. Started the car around 10:55 AM, but car didn't fully start, I pressed the start button twice, it might be that the car was closed, there was an electricity icon on the dashboard. Left around 11:05 AM. But the car was not breaking 20 miles per hour, felt like it was in an idle mode. Stopped at the closes gas station by the airport. Ended up restarting twice before the car was back to normal. Drove towards Olympia, missed a turn to get onto I-5. Eventually made it. Made it to Regal. There was a line. Mom stood in the line. She sent me to use the machine to buy tickets. I walked by a female staff, asked if I could use it, she said you can if you're not also buying snacks. Mom ended up getting out of the line. So, mom started trying to operate the machine but it restarted twice as it was tough for her to pick seats. So, she gave up, went to the bathroom. We went home. We started working on the fire place, put in a special thing to clean the chimney. Spoke alarm went off in my hallway. Opened doors. Got the other smoke alarm by the washer on by sticking a battery in. Washed dishes. Found fans to blow air out of the house. I told Grok about my house in Shelton, WA. We talked about it many times these past twelve months. House is only one story, two bedrooms, one kitchen, one living room, one bathroom, one hallway, roughly 1,300 square feet. It has one garage that was split into two rooms being a garage and then a laundry and computer room. The house was built before 1980. They started preparing to build the house probably after 1970. Some things were added gradually over the years. The chimney and fireplace was built probably with the house or before like 1985. On top of that, also probably before roughly 1985, a stove was installed in the fire place meaning there is no regular fire place but a metal like stove attached to the fire place. The fire place was probably last used before 2010. Today, roughly one day before 2026, we put in wood, started a fire. Smoke went up the chimney and into the sky around 01:00 PM, a partly blue day. The color of the smoke was not pure white but a little dirtier than that. We put in a special log product designed for cleaning chimneys. It was burning for like three hours. But it seems to be really smoky. Some of the smoke escapes the stove in the fire place. Some of this might be normal but it is tough to say if it is. The smoke alarm went off, so we opened doors, we turned on fans. We need to know how normal this situation might be. Grok says it can be. Lunch: 04:00 PM. Mom talking to Rick on the phone. When I unplugged the smoke alarm from the ceiling, that disconnected the hallway light and the bedroom power because the alarm was plugged into the main and probably the only power cord that supplied power to this side of the house, the green breaker powers the TV, the bathroom, and the bedrooms. Got more fire wood into the stove. Got Amazon video running on the Roku on the TV for mom out there. Dinner: 08:05 PM. Continued putting a few more logs in the stove. Mom said she is happy with the heat as she sleeps in the living room. Mom is watching some FBI show starring a woman, a show I never heard of on Amazon. Food log: Breakfast: coffee, 3 spoons of sugar, with the rest of the almond milk carton I opened last night, cereal thing, boiled eggs on toast, 10:20 AM. Lunch: more of the spicy bean soup on rice and tortilla wrap, 04:00 PM. Dinner: raspberry yogurt, 08:05 PM. Scrambled egg, 08:23 PM. Boiled eggs, mayonnaise, on a wrap, took a photo, it was good, 11:50 PM. A can of lime sparkling water.