Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Jun 06 to Jun 12 2026

Sat Jun 06 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

  • DDO: Dave W and I did Legendary Slavers p1 at R3. We have a pretty good rhythm where I send Teal (level 30 raptor) at the bad guys to get aggravation. Then I heal him twice (need to anticipate and start casting before he's taking damage because he'll die fast). That gives Dave W enough time to get in there and start hitting bad guys with his dagger that turns people into gold for a few seconds (it's like Constitution DC 100 so hard to resist for bad guys). Then I can start attacking and hopefully don't get aggro.

Sun Jun 07 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1100 (7-1/2 hours)

  • No Nemo stream today. I went on Discord and hung out with three of the STFC leaders in my alliance. They talk a lot about random stuff and I mostly listened. Was nice.
  • Watched Monaco Grand Prix. Lots of stuff happening but I guess not really racing. I read in a book that Monaco is a track where it's hard to pass and yeah that seemed true. Not sure there was any passing but several crashes, lots of penalties, and one race stop kept things eventful.

Mon Jun 08 2026

Sleep 0415 to 1215 (8 hours)

  • Visited Lima. Started MBP Intel net boot. Taking too long so left it there and will come back tomorrow.
  • Trader Joe's for stuff to make nachos cause I have a hankering.
  • Chips, 2 oz ($0.50) + Refried Beans 1/2 can ($0.60) + Sliced Black Olives 1/2 can ($0.90) + Shredded Sharp Cheddar 1 oz ($0.33) + Pico de Gallo Salsa, Spicy, 1/4 ($0.75) = $3.08 for a single serving of nachos, enough for a small lunch. Tasted pretty good.

Tue Jun 09 2026

Sleep 0600 to 1200, 30m nap (6-1/2 hours)

  • Nemo streamed from Japan so I got to sleep late.
  • Visited Lima. MBP stuck trying to download recovery image. Bringing it back home and will try net install again.
  • Actually I can try recovering from Time Machine image. I think I still have it backed up but I was thinking the old install was the problem so restoring wouldn't fix it.
    • Restore From Time Machine Backup doesn't find any macOS installs in my backups. Maybe it's because the Restore app is from macOS 10.15 (that's the OS it wants to install when I do Reinstall macOS) and doesn't recognize Time Machine backups with macOS 12 and 26.
    • "Time Machine Backup not found - File extension is .backupbundle instead of .sparsebundle" identifies that changing the file extension would allow restore app to see the backups but restore would still fail partway.
    • "How to reinstall macOS" mentions restarting with Option-Command-R or Shift-Option-Command-R to get a different version of the macOS installer.

Wed Jun 10 2026

Sleep 0415 to 1215 (8 hours)

  • MBP Intel: Shift-Option-Command-R (boot Internet Recovery with macOS version that came with your Mac) stalled booting overnight. Option-Command-R (boot with latest supported Internet Recovery) started up and allowed me to try to install macOS 26 (Tahoe) which failed to install -- started to install and then a few minutes later MBP shut down. I give up and it's time to recycle that machine.

Thu Jun 11 2026

Sleep 0530 to 1330 (8 hours)


Fri Jun 12 2026

Sleep 0800 to 1415 (6-1/4 hours)

  • I seem to be hitting a limitation with Wiki.js + Safari. As my X1 map diagram gets more and more detailed it got to the point that Safari won't load Wiki.js edit page. Works great on Chrome but I try to avoid using Chrome.
  • Dave S was around so we played Gloomhaven