Monday is currently not a working day for me. While Aquinas was out of the house, I moved a bunch of stuff out of the spare room. This left a lot of free floor space. Then I brought in the stepladder to access the jammed window shade chain. I couldn’t fix it.

Aquinas was surprised to see boxes and swathed picture frames in the entryway, but recovered quickly and set to work on the problem of the jammed window shade.

He managed to extract the plastic chain itself and roll down the shade. Lowering the shade was, admittedly, the primary goal. Ideally, though, the chain would control the up and down movement of the shade. Now it controls nothing. We have no idea how to insert it into the place where it belongs.

I call this a draw.