Leon, you might want to check out setting your place up as a smart home so you can manage it when you're back in Texas. Don't know about the technological structure there, especially after the hurricane, but that might be a good tool for you.
About those tiles, you need to test them with a cocktail shaker with two libations in it. I normally do just one, because I am a party of one, but when vacationing, I tend to get carried away. And I assume by "regular posters" you are referring to time on the forum and not mental state.
BTW, if you charge by the person, does an inflatable doll, or two, count? And if you do, at what level of inflation do they become a "person". I look at them as visitors and not guests. And I wouldn't bring my main squeeze, pun intended, Trudy as she hates to fly.