Baffling Birthday

Today (January 29) is my late father's birthday. On his last two birthdays there were baffling anomalies:

• On January 29, 2024, as described here, I was lying in bed thinking of my father, wondering whether a dream I just had was a reference to him. At that moment the GFCI outlet in the bathroom mysteriously turned off with a loud sound. There was no one in the bathroom. Turning off the outlet requires a press of a button on the GFCI panel on the wall of the bathroom. 
• On January 29, 2025, as described here, around 12:50 AM, a structural panel in front of my sink mysteriously fell to the ground. The event was very surprising, as the whole floor had been remodeled a few years ago, and the panel was expected to stay undisturbed for many additional years. 

Today, January 29, 2026 I woke up about 1:00 AM, and went into the living room. I was surprised to see the thermostat showing a temperature of 67 degrees. I had set the thermostat to 60 degrees when going to bed at midnight, a temperature I keep it at when I sleep. I set the thermostat back to 60 degrees, and went back to the couch. A few minutes later I saw the thermostat was again showing a setting of  67 degrees. It was as if some invisible hand had moved the thermostat to the right, resetting it from 60 to 67. 

It is interesting that all three of these events involve a panel. The dictionary defines a panel as "a flat or curved component, typically rectangular, that forms or is set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling." The thermostat was in a wall panel, as shown below. The first syllable of "panel" is "pa," an English word meaning "father." 

Below is the description of this morning's event that I wrote on a notepad immediately after it occurred:

"1/29: Saw thermostat at 67 at 1:10. I turned it back to 60, which I had set it to at 12:00. A few minutes later it was mysteriously back to 67." 

The Google Nest thermostat has a Settings interface that allows you to look at changes in the temperature that get scheduled, under some capability of the thermostat to learn from your previous habits in switching the temperature. Around noon today I used that Settings interface to see whether there was any scheduled switch in temperature that could explain the anomaly described above. There was not. Below is what I saw when looking at the schedule for today (Thursday):