Monthly subscription type payments. I keep thinking about subscribing to Viki but would like to compensate by reducing other expenses.


Tier 1 - very optional

Twitch, 3 channels = $18
Apple One = $20
Ooma = $8

Apple TV is the only part of Apple One I really use (well, there's the iCloud storage but that's $1 per month I could pay separately). But for standalone Apple TV price ($13) I would instead subscribe to Viki Plus ($12) though I guess that's self defeating so instead Viki Standard ($8).

For Twitch it's tempting to drop two channels and leave the one channel I regularly mod.

Actually, dropping Ooma for Viki Standard seems very fair. If my Ooma finally dies completely I'll do it.


Tier 2 - optional but would rather not

Strategy & Tactics magazine = $18
World War II magazine = $18

I'd rather not cancel my wargame magazines since I'd probably end up buying missing issues at much higher cost. Note that subscription price (at $36 bi-monthly) is still a fair discount over the $50/$55 retail price.


Tier 3 - not optional but can maybe find alternatives

Sonic Internet = $75
PG&E = $90
Kaiser = $41
Mint Mobile = $17

For Sonic it would be going back to Comcast at a very low plan; PG&E is more aggressive energy management; Kaiser would be dropping health insurance as I think that's the lowest cost plan already; Mint is moving to a lower cost carrier though they're already very cheap.


Tier 4 - must keep paying

Mortgage
HOA monthly fee

Technically I could refinance (would be bad in this economic environment) or move out.

Sat Mar 21 2026

Sleep 0215 to 1015 (8 hours)

• Gloomhaven: another story mission done, this one for Tinker.
• Gaming at Dave and Sophia's. Got 100m session done, maybe cut it a bit short as I was tired. But the unfinished material can be used in later adventures I think.
• Christopher brought Bonchon wings and fries. It was ok.
• We went walking afterwards. For Jonathan walking is an excuse to go to the various park jungle gym areas and play.

Sun Mar 22 2026

Sleep 0300 to 0930, 45m nap (7-1/4 hours)

• DDO last night. We did three runs of 20th anniversary quest. One more run for Dave S to get 50 so he can buy an item if he wants.

Mon Mar 23 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• I guess there's a new version of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. I bought it a long time ago and paid for the in-app full version upgrade. Re-downloaded today but can't restore purchases (actually a bit unclear whether or not it worked)... Ah I see from the description this is an HD remaster. Same name so I guess the old version is dead.
• Here's a support article: Redownload apps from Apple. Was able to redownload Ghost Trick though it's unclear if I can restore my purchases -- appears not but maybe it already did.

Tue Mar 24 2026

Sleep 0415 to 1115, 30m nap (7-1/2 hours)

• After looking at my subscriptions I'm going to cancel BotezLive and AnnaCramling Twitch ($12/month for both) until I have enough to get one-year Viki Plus ($120 annual).

Wed Mar 25 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1130 (8 hours)

• A week or two ago the Lose It! app got a bit of a UI overhaul but searches became really slow. Like I type a couple of letters then the UI freezes as it searches and displays results for those letters and further taps are ignored. I think it did that before (searching as you're typing) but it didn't slow down the typing part of the UI. Maybe time to look for a new app.

Thu Mar 26 2026

Sleep 0445 to 1245 (8 hours)

• Gettysburg: Extended Edition is now $5 so I will buy it. Standard edition I noticed was on sale for $5 a couple days ago and I had decided that if it still was in two days then I'd buy it. Luckily though now I can the Extended Edition instead. Extended edition also has German, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles which is a nice just in case. Current payment is credit union credit card. Apple often waits a few days to charge a credit card so hopefully it'll be charged next month but I'd rather not wait a couple of days and risk the price going back up.

Fri Mar 27 2026

Sleep 0430 to 1230 (8 hours)

• Watched some of the Japan Grand Prix qualifying. It's important since in general the better your starting position the better you do in the race. But the qualifying is kind of boring -- it's just a bunch of cars trying to have a fast lap but they're spread out enough they rarely interfere with each other (and the slower car is supposed to let the faster car by I think).

Bundle of Holding for Trail of Cthulhu 1E (second edition is in development though the blog mentions 1E supplements are "wholly compatible" with 2E). Includes titles from six previous bundles and three products not seen before in Bundle of Holding, though still a far from complete 1E collection (although to be fair Pelgrane does a lot of taking individually released PDF adventures and bundling them into a book).

For the variably increasing $37 price you get:

• PELG-T01 Trail of Cthulhu (2008) [OWN]
• PELG-T04 Keeper's Resource Book and Screen (2008) [OWN]
• PELG-T06 Shadows Over Filmland (2008) - 11 shorter adventures [OWN]
• PELG-T09 Rough Magicks (2009) - magic book [OWN]
• PELG-T22 Out of Time (2011) - four adventures: Not So Quiet, The Black Drop, The Big Hoodoo, Castle Bravo [OWN]
• PELG-T30 Out of Space (2013) - five adventures: The Repairer of Reputations, Flying Coffins, Many Fires, Hell Fire, The Millionaire's Special [OWN]
• PELG-T33 The Final Revelation (2013) - five Purist adventures (Purist mode meaning all PCs expected to die or go insane): The Dying of St Margaret's, The Watchers in the Sky, The Dance in the Blood, The Rending Box, The Final Revelation [OWN 4 of 5 adventures]
• PELG-T34 Eternal Lies (2013) - campaign [OWN]
• PELG-T37 Mythos Expeditions (2014) - 10 journeys into the unknown (adventures) [OWN]
• PELG-T40 Cthulhu Apocalypse (2015) - survival horror supplement with 16 adventures/scenarios (half previously published as The Dead White World and Slaves of the Mother), includes PELG-T24 The Apocalypse Machine [OWN most of this]
• PELG-T43 Out of the Woods (2017) - five adventures: Midnight Sub Rosa, The Silence Mill, Dreaming a Better Tomorrow for 30 Dollars a Month, The Coldest Walk, Trembling Giant [OWN]
• PELG-T44 Cthulhu City (2017) - setting, "a strange, corrupted Arkham, a ghastly metropolis", includes one full-length adventure The Whispering Light [OWN]
• PELG-T45 Fearful Symmetries (2021) - campaign framework based in English folklore, includes PELG-T46 Book of New Jerusalem
• PELG-T47 Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos (2018) - monsters book [OWN]

I own a surprising amount of this already. Certainly not enough new stuff to warrant buying this bundle.

After watching my first F1 race I settled on picking these two as my favorite drivers, solely because of their names.

Oliver Bearman - British, first F1 race in 2024, has 29 starts, finished #13 (41 points) in 2025.

Franco Colapinto - Argentine, first F1 race in 2024, has 28 starts, finished #20 (0 points and essentially last) in 2025.

If my team were these two drivers then after two races and one sprint I'd have 18 points which ties for 3rd in Constructors' Championship.

Sat Mar 14 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Saw a newspaper article about a plan to redevelop my local Safeway. There will be a Safeway plus 400 living units. My local Trader Joe's mall is also being renovated though that was announced years ago and no visible sign that anything has started. There are often holdups.

Sun Mar 15 2026

Sleep 0415 to 0945, 1815 to 1900 (6-1/4 hours)

• MacWhisper: I realized that the Parakeet v3 model often only transcribes 10 or 20 minutes and then stops. That does make it seem so much faster than other models. I switched back to Large v3 Turbo which is slower but still transcribes at like 10x audio speed. Now I have to check previous transcriptions for the last couple of months.

Mon Mar 16 2026

Sleep 0500 to 1300 (8 hours)

• Stayed up late to catch up on weekly reading.
• Apple AirPods Max 2 ($550). I want this even though it may have the same moisture problems as the previous versions. None of the reviews I've seen mention if the build quality is improved, though I think they're all going off of the press release and none have physically touched the new product.
• Months ago I was getting a bunch of cold calls and emails from one of the Fidelity investment teams, all of which I ignored. Finally I answered a call and told them I wasn't interested. That was maybe three months ago say. Maybe a month ago I started getting cold calls and emails from a different Fidelity investment team. This time I blocked their number and will have to mark their email as spam.

Tue Mar 17 2026

Sleep 0100 to 1000 (9 hours)

• Went to the dentist and had two fillings done, one in upper right and one in lower left. Took an hour so it was quick. Luckily no pain when he injected the anesthesia (first they do a local so that the injection doesn't hurt but sometimes it hits an awake nerve). Drilling sound is disconcerting and sometimes there's a lot of water in my mouth -- good thing that today I could breathe from my nose; when it's a bit stuffy and I have to breathe through my mouth it's really tough.
• Afterwards I went to 99 Ranch and got some tofu, black bean sauce, and then other things I can get at a normal store. And still I went to Trader Joe's for some meat as I didn't find anything appealing in 99 Ranch (other than ground pork).

Wed Mar 18 2026

Sleep 0230 to 1030 (8 hours)

• C3+S dinner. Steph made corned beef, potatoes, carrots, cabbage. Everything was good though the cabbage was a bit bitter.

Thu Mar 19 2026

Sleep 0145 to 0815 (6-1/2 hours)

• HOA Board training seminar which I've attended before but it's a little different each time. A couple of new things I learned: confidential information has to be kept confidential even after you leave the Board (makes sense); for a building walkthrough (like for say Reserve Study) if a majority of board members are present then it's a meeting and homeowners should be allowed to attend (and I think we did this before for something when I wasn't on the board yet); always carry workplace injury insurance because it's cheap and just in case -- homeowner hires someone who gets injured and has no insurance and sues homeowner and then HOA.

Fri Mar 20 2026

Sleep 0315 to 1115 (8 hours)

• I did a bunch of transcriptions overnight with MacWhisper. Then today I tried a small batch and it went up to 18 GB RAM used and macOS started freezing applications and popped up a window saying it was out of application memory and chose applications to force quit. Recovered from that and tried again and once again 18+ GB memory used. Rebooted and now MacWhisper seems to be working ok, about 10 GB memory in use because I'm using a large model.
• Oops. Ran out of HD space. Turns out MacWhisper's ExternalMedia folder is 259 GB. mp3 and m4a files I guess the extracted audio from the videos I was transcribing.
• Ok. Figured it out. MacWhisper copies the original file to ExternalMedia (so files of 1 GB to 4 GB in size) then creates an m4a mono audio and uses that for the transcription. And at the end it doesn't clean up ExternalMedia so it'll just keep taking up more and more space. Hopefully just a bug that will be fixed.

This SR 4E Humble Bundle is 90 items for $25. I have bought previous bundles for 1st/2nd, 3rd, and 6th editions. Bundle of Holding had 2 bundles with some 5th edition stuff but I passed on that. Even though almost half are small e-products and there's a bunch of e-products missing this is still a great bundle.

FPR-26003 On the Run (2006) - 56 pages
FPR-26005 Runner Havens (2006) - 144 pages

CAT-2600A Shadowrun 4E Anniversary Printing (2009) - 376 pages
CAT-26001 Street Magic (2006) - 192 pages
CAT-26002 Augmentation (2007) - 176 pages
CAT-26003 Arsenal (2008) - 202 pages
CAT-26004 Unwired (2008) - 208 pages
CAT-26005 Runner's Companion (2008) - 184 pages

CAT-26101 Running Wild (2009) - 224 pages
CAT-26102 Seattle 2072 (2009) - 200 pages
CAT-26105 Runners Black Book 2074 (2012) - 202 pages

CAT-26201 Corporate Enclaves (2007) - 138 pages
CAT-26202 Feral Cities (2008) - 134 pages
CAT-26203 Vice (2009) - 194 pages
CAT-26205 Sixth World Almanac (2010) - 208 pages
CAT-26206 War! (2010) - 184 pages
CAT-26207 Spy Games (2011) - 176 pages
CAT-26208 Conspiracy Theories (2011) - 176 pages
CAT-26209 Street Legends (2011) - 184 pages
CAT-26210 Hazard Pay (2012) - 170 pages
CAT-26211 The Clutch of Dragons (2012) - 152 pages
CAT-26212 Dirty Tricks (2012) - 160 pages
CAT-26213 Storm Front (2013) - 200 pages
CAT-26221 Corporate Guide (2010) - 234 pages
CAT-26230 Shadowrun 2050 (2012) - 200 pages,
CAT-26241 Attitude (2011) - 176 pages

CAT-26301 Emergence (2007) - 120 pages
CAT-26302 Ghost Cartels (2008) - 160 pages

CAT-26400 Dusk (Dawn of the Artifacts) - 56 pages
CAT-26401 Midnight (Dawn of the Artifacts) - 58 pages
CAT-26402 Darkest Hour (Dawn of the Artifacts) - 58 pages
CAT-26403 New Dawn (Dawn of the Artifacts) - 50 pages
CAT-26405 A Fistful of Credsticks (2011) - 56 pages
CAT-26406 Anarchy: Subsidized (2011) - 50 pages
CAT-26407 Colombian Subterfuge (2012) - 56 pages
CAT-26408 Damage Control (2011) - 54 pages
CAT-26410 Sacrificial Limb (2012) - 48 pages
CAT-26450 Artifacts Unbound (2011) - 152 pages
CAT-26451 Corporate Intrigue (2011) - 150 pages
CAT-26452 Jet Set (2012) - 170 pages
CAT-26453 The Twilight Horizon (2012) - 154 pages

CAT-26500 Sprawl Sites: North America (2012) - 32 pages
CAT-26501 Sprawl Sites: High Society & Low Life (2013) - 40 pages
CAT-26504 10 Gangs (2010) - 22 pages

CAT-26600 Digital Grimoire (2008) - 18 pages
CAT-26601 Bad Moon Rising in the East (2008) - 37 pages, Gen Con 2008 Shadowrun tournament scenario
CAT-26651 10 Jackpointers (2010) - 31 pages

CAT-26S001 This Old Drone (2011) - 25 pages
CAT-26S002 MilSpecTech (2011) - 39 pages
CAT-26S003 Parazoology (2011) - 33 pages
CAT-26S005 99 Bottles (2011) - 29 pages
CAT-26S006 State of the Art 2073 (2011) - 41 pages
CAT-26S009 Unfriendly Skies (2011) - 36 pages
CAT-26S010 Gun Heaven (2011) - 35 pages
CAT-26S011 Deadly Waves (2011) - 33 pages
CAT-26S012 Parabotany (2012) - 51 pages
CAT-26S013 Safehouses (2012) - 18 pages
CAT-26S014 Magical Societies (2012) - 23 pages
CAT-26S015 Street Legends Supplemental (2012) - 47 pages
CAT-26S016 Gun Heaven 2 (2012) - 59 pages
CAT-26S017 The Way of the Samurai (2013) - 19 pages
CAT-26S019 Used Car Lot (2012) - 24 pages
CAT-26S021 MilSpecTech 2 (2012) - 31 pages

CAT-26SO001? The Way of the Adept (2011) - 15 pages

Mission 03-00 Everyone's Your Friend - Shadowrun Missions are Living Campaign scenarios
Mission 03-01 Read, Set, Gogh!
Mission 03-02 Block War
Mission 03-03 Burning Bridges
Mission 03-04 Monkeywrench
Mission 03-05 In and Out
Mission 03-06 Jackknifed!
Mission 03-07 Knight at the Opera
Mission 03-08 Firestorm
Mission 03-09 Something Completely Different
Mission 03-10 Spin Control
Mission 03-11 Food Poisoning
Mission 03-12 Elevator Ride to Hell
Mission 04-00 Back in Business
Mission 04-01 Hiding in the Dark
Mission 04-02 Extraction
Mission 04-03 Rally Cry
Mission 04-04 Smuggler's Blues
Mission 04-05 On a Silver Platter
Mission 04-06 Hard Target
Mission 04-07 Burn
Mission 04-08 Brothers United
Mission 04-09 Assassin Nation
Mission 04-10 Romero & Juliette
Mission 04-11 Election Day
Mission 04-12 Showcase


Items not included. Probably not a complete list.

CAT-26100 Runner's Toolkit (2011) - 191 pages
CAT-26104 Runner's Black Book (2011) - 184 pages
CAT-26602 The Rotten Apple: Manhattan (2009) - 32 pages

CAT-2635A Best Ever: An Eighth World Adventure (2009) - 50 pages
CAT-26APR03 Street Legends: Home Edition (2012) - 16 pages
CAT-26APR13 Rigger 4 (2013) - 18 pages
CAT-26APR20 Free Taiwan (2012) - 19 pages

CAT-26S018 Euro War Antiques (2013) - 92 pages
CAT-26S020 Parageology (2012) - 32 pages
CAT-26S022 Another Rainy Night (2012) - 19 pages
CAT-26S024 Sim Dreams & Nightmares (2013) - 17 pages
CAT-26S025 The Land of Promise (2012) - 24 pages
CAT-26S026 Montreal 2074 (2012) - 21 pages
CAT-26S027 Bullets & Bandages (2014) - 23 pages
CAT-26S030 The Vladivostok Gauntlet (2013)
CAT-26S032 Aetherology (2014) - 39 pages
CAT-26S033 Parazoology 2 (2013) - 41 pages
CAT-26S034 10 Merchs (2013) - 52 pages
CAT-26S040 Gun Heaven 3 (2013) - 37 pages
CAT-26S041 Sail Away, Sweet Sister (2014) - 33 pages

CAT-26CON12 Elven Blood (2012) - 98 pages, compilation of 5 adventures written for conventions

Shadowrun Missions 02-01 to 02-25 (and probably means there were series 01 missions).

MacBook Neo is a new low-cost design not a stripped-down version of MacBook Air or Pro. Only two configurations and no other customizations: 256 GB storage for $600 or 512 GB storage and Touch ID for $700. +256 GB for $100 I think is standard Apple price so Touch ID is "free". I use my MBP closed with an external monitor so rarely use Touch ID. But I find 512 GB is a bit low for me -- I think for my parents who don't download games or movies and everything is on the cloud 512 GB is just fine.

Neo uses an Apple A18 Pro chip with a 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine and has 8 GB memory, period. A-series processors have only been used on iDevices until now.

iPad (A16)
iPad mini (A17 Pro)
iPhone 16/Plus/e (A18)
iPhone 16 Pro/Pro Max (A18 Pro)

Both iPhone 16 Pro/Pro Max have 8 GB memory though 6-core GPU still I expect a MacBook Neo will have close to the same performance.

I don't really have anything to compare with but I guess for web-heavy usage (web sites, web apps) this is quite fine and same for non-professional workloads -- Apple Pages, Numbers, Keynote should work great. Probably GarageBand too. Maybe not iMovie. My parents basically only use the web browser so MacBook Neo performance should still be fine.

There is somewhat a lack of ports and no really fast ports but for low-end use that shouldn't be a problem. With an attached monitor leaving the USB 2 port for charging or an external SSD I would find it very limiting. It would probably force me to upgrade to 1 TB SSD and use some sort of Network Attached Storage. I suppose a dock ($150 or so) would also work though once again not sure the high-speed port can do an external monitor and external SSD (both connected to the dock).

Supports one external monitor at 4K and 60 Hz along with the internal monitor. Would be fine for my parents as they only have one monitor. In practice an external monitor and a MBP monitor together is a bit rough as the display sizes are so different. At best I can relegate the MBP monitor to status screens or similar but I'm too used to having two external monitors.

So I guess as a PC replacement for my parents the $600 MacBook Neo should be fine.

But let's a different tack. Since my parents I don't think will use the MacBook portability -- my dad uses his iPad and my mom her iPhone -- a Mac mini ($600 for M4 chip, 16 GB memory, 256 GB SSD) may be better even if the SSD is smaller. They can reuse their PC keyboard and mouse (might require adapters) and I guess they'd do that even with a Neo. I'm more comfortable that the M4 chip and more memory will help a Mac mini stay useful longer than a MacBook Neo.

I think in a college setting where you want to bring a computer around to various places then the Neo is a nice cheap and capable enough computer. Also maybe for kids if they have their own iPad and you're graduating them to a real computer then Neo seems to fit.

Sat Mar 07 2026

Sleep 0215 to 1045 (8-1/2 hours)

• DDO we did Reclaiming the Rift R4 and The Deal and the Demon R5. Both times I'm not sure any PCs died.

Sun Mar 08 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0915 (6 hours)

• Daylight Savings jump forward. Had the thought that maybe someday with auto-adjusting clocks we can just move forward or back like a minute or two per day and we wouldn't notice the change.

Mon Mar 09 2026

Sleep 0430 to 1130 (7 hours)

• DDO: I tried doing Madstone Crater on R1 with my two characters but too hard. I don't have enough killing power to keep the bad guys away from the giant priest at the second crystal -- this is the one where he's on top of a hill with four paths up to it and an overlooking ledge where an Ogre Magi pops out. I've managed to do it on Hard placing passive hirelings in front of two monster caves. I can keep them healed and take out the three monsters coming up. I'll level up then try again on Elite.

Tue Mar 10 2026

Sleep 0200 to 1000, 1800 to 1900 (9 hours)

• The whole Winter Olympics came and went and I heard bits and pieces but didn't watch any of it. Just didn't have the free time -- I'd rather watch more K-dramas.

Wed Mar 11 2026

Sleep 0345 to 1145 (8 hours)

• At the last HOA meeting people brought up that there is a drug rehab recovery living housing planned a couple of blocks from here. A few people seemed quite against it. I'm fine with it. I think if you're recovering and go there you are trying to get better so not a danger to the community.

• This SJ Mercury News article mentions it'll be the Horizon Recovery Center, operated by Horizon Treatment Services. From the description it looks fairly benign with 79 spaces, half of them for long-term treatment.

Thu Mar 12 2026

Sleep 0100 to 0845 (7-3/4 hours)

• Since last HOA meeting I've been reviewing the security cam footage, one weekend per night, to see when Francisco comes to rotate the garbage bins. I've done five weekends and can't find him on Sunday. Will investigate more. It might be a misunderstanding between Custom Maintenance and us.

Fri Mar 13 2026

Sleep 0200 to 1030 (8-1/2 hours)

• Need more coffee filters so an excuse to go to Safeway and see what the deli has on $5 Friday. It was BBQ Beef Tips and Fried Alaskan Pollock squares. I got 8 squares for $10, lemonade (I didn't see any Newman's lemonade and it didn't look like there was an empty space for it so maybe that Safeway doesn't sell it anymore), and some almost-expired salmon on sale for like $10 per pound.

Kickstarter for Deadlands 30th Anniversary.

• Deadlands: Core Rules ($50) - Not really a new edition but a new format: Savage Worlds core rules trimmed down for Deadlands, character stuff from the old main rules + some of the companions, GM stuff from the old main rules minus a bunch of monsters now separated out. Two minor rules changes (for Dueling and Chases) are available free on the Pinnacle web site but all the stuff is pre-existing material.
• Deadlands: Rascals, Varmints, and Relics ($40 or +$25 if buying core rules) - monster and treasures book.
• Deadlands: Accessories Box ($50) - physical accessories for GMs: action deck, bennies, conviction tokens, GM screen, set of dice, five dials to track ammo or power points, poster map, reference cards.
• Deadlands: Power Cards ($30) - reference card sets for all arcane backgrounds
• Deadlands: Starter Set ($40) - "showcase" version of rules, one adventure, maps, tokens, pawns, action deck, templates, archetype cards
• Deadlands: 30 Years of Games, Grit, and Ghost Rock ($50) - history and picture book, there will be no PDF version

I'm rather ambivalent about this. It's basically stuff I already own though reformatted into a new nicer version. Kind of rough that the Accessories Box and Starter Set overlap a lot.

I think in the end maybe the Core Rules + Monster book for $75 + about $15 shipping I'm guessing. That's kind of a nice self-contained "these are the only two books you need plus an adventure".

Went to sleep about 0200 and woke up at 0900 (for Star Trek Fleet Command territory control). Breakfast at 1000 in the hotel with Christopher Sr and Dave S. I had the breakfast burrito which was pretty good though it doesn't come with any sides.

Went to dealer room and bought the last copy of Mothership Deluxe Set. This one was the one at Games of Berkeley booth. Also a chance to use up a $100 bill that my credit union ATM doesn't like (it only likes near perfect, unwrinkled bills).

Back at the room we played Run! card game (Dave S, CSr, CJr, myself). You have three cards most with a number from 1 to 9. Draw one and discard one. Object is that when someone says "Run! (from the bear") you don't have the lowest total. Get caught three times and you're out. We did two playings and I won the first and Dave S won the second.

We started a CoraQuest scenario. Dave W and family arrived. We paused the game and went to lunch at the hotel (I had a cheeseburger and fries) and everyone was there including Dave S's kids. Christopher Jr was upset that he wanted to play another session of Monster Smash but he had an art class at 1630 and didn't want to start playing and have to leave early.

Fortunately he dawdled a bit too long and the Monster Smash game was full. Back to the room to finish CoraQuest then CSr took junior to art class (at a Palo Alto book store) since Corina was taking a nap. We just hung out in the room and when Christopher came back a couple of hours later it was time to go feed Coco so I left with CSr and then drove back to mom and dad's.