Thanks to @Hal3 and @bertabcd1234 I've automated five blinds (via iBlinds). They are set up and after some VERY satisfactory issues and problem solving are working perfectly.
Thanks to @dadarkgtprince and @Ken_Fraleigh, I've installed three of the Sylvania/Osram LED strips. Two in closet test installs. (Overall the strips are awaiting install in wife's new walk-in closet after remodel.) Third strip was just installed as a part of a kitchen gas burner safety warning automation:
I swear I have not been shirking my automation duties! Additional recent:
- Christmas tree - check.
- Outside Chrismas lights - check.
- Indoor Christmas lights - check.
- Entertainment center built-in lights - check.
- Doggie cam - check.
But lIke @AverageJoe90 and @Hal3 I once again find myself bereft of projects. What to do...what to do!?
One project I'm thinking about that would be fun, is adding one of the Osram LED strips to our pantry cabinet. It's two five foot tall doors w/slide out shelves inside. It's next to the fridge, so I realized I could cut a hole in the side of the pantry cabinet near the back and run a plug to the outlet behind the fridge to get power. Boom! LED pantry lights. Sort of unnecessary, but so much cool involved.
I'd just have to find a time to do the cutting when the wife is out of the house, and she is now working from home so that doesn't happen too often. But better it's done stealth...what she doesn't know about holes in her kitchen cabinets (even ones she can't see) won't hurt me. 
What else...
