I’ve also learned that I can’t stand battery operated motion sensors!

Have you found any plug-in motion sensors that you use instead? It looks like they are generally much more expensive than the battery powered ones, which doesn’t make any sense to me.

Yes, living in the US, it’s safe to assume that any tap water is safe to drink without boiling. Sometimes it doesn’t taste great because of mineral content, but it’s safe with very few exceptions.

That’s also been the case in any developed country that I have visited, including Iceland, Canada, pretty much all of Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc. There may be exceptions in all of those places, but in any large city in a developed country you can drink the tap water.