Sat Jun 07 2025

Sleep 0200 to 0430, 0515 to 1015. (7-1/2 hours)

• Took an Advil about 2000 before I went to see Lima. Then went to sleep. Woke at 0430 and foot in pain unless I had to in a specific position. Took another Advil and got back to sleep. About noon now and foot not too bad though still swollen.
• Got notification that my resting heart rate has been noticeably higher for 5 days which tracks with my foot issue.
• Noticed that Monterra Credit Union added 2FA option for authentication apps. Unlike every other site I’ve set this up on Monterra does not give you backup/emergency codes so I am leery to turn off SMS as a backup.

Sun Jun 08 2025

Sleep 0515 to 0945, 1115 to 1345 (6 hours)

• Last night we did another Gloomhaven scenario (minus CSr). Reward was a Cloak that if used you take 3 damage and get +1 Attack for attack action, great for my arrow storm.
• Foot has been not pained today. Took an Advil last night but not today. Can walk around slowly and it’s not painful. Still swollen. Hope that tomorrow will be even better.
• Music app still hadn’t uploaded the last D&D podcast file (iCloud status = waiting). I re-authorized my computer which then said I should turn off/on syncing. After doing that eventually it did upload the file.

Mon Jun 09 2025

Sleep 0130 to 1230 (11 hours)

• Viewing WWDC 25 Keynote in macOS Developer app. Not a great experience. Default windows has small video screen. You can make it full screen but then I can’t take notes. You can popup and make it bigger (up to video original size, not unlimited) but there is only pause/play control, can’t go forward or back.
• It’d be nice if Shortcuts ran in the background instead of bringing up the Shortcuts app to the foreground then running. This behavior is common to all Apple OSes.
• Playing DDO Keep on the Borderlands. For my campaign I was copying the dialog by hand. Forgot that the dialog is written in the General Log so I could have copy/pasted from there and saved lots of time.
• Foot was sore but not really hurting. Didn’t have to take an Advil last night nor today.

Tue Jun 10 2025

Sleep 0600 to 1315 (7-1/4 hours)

• Foot was hurting a bit last night. Today so far not so much. Still swollen. No Advil last night or today.

Wed Jun 11 2025

Sleep 0200 to 0800, 1400 to 1630. (8-1/2 hours)

• Can walk without pain, though not fast. Foot maybe a little less swollen. Standing up to eat lunch was pretty much fine. Even yesterday it was painful standing more than a couple of minutes.

Thu Jun 12 2025

Sleep 0345 to 1200 (8-1/4 hours)

• Oracle announced their earnings and stock jumped from $176.38 to $199.86. This time I really need to sell a bunch.
• Foot is a bit better. Maybe a hint of pain at the base of my toe when I flex it. Still swollen, maybe less than yesterday. Still wouldn’t want to walk more than a couple of minutes.

Fri Jun 13 2025

Sleep 0300 to 0830 (5-1/2 hours)

• Maybe walked/stood a bit too much yesterday as my left foot might is a little more sore. Swelling went down a little.
• Stock sold for $202 which is nice. Often it sells for less than you think. Even though stock price is now $215 that is fine as I have other stock so selling “too soon” not an issue.

On RPG.net someone pointed out that there is also a DTRPG Troika bundle. Eryops made a comparison table. DTRPG tends to discount the bundle for items you already own and it looks like buying the Troika Warehouse Bundle will discount those items from the DTRPG bundle. That would leave:

Academies of the Arcane ($5, owned)
Slate & Chalcedony ($5, owned)
The Big Squirm ($5, owned)

Although it turns out I own the remaining items so this bundle is superfluous.

Bundle of Holding's Troika Warehouse bundle is for the "acid-fantasy RPG" and includes the core rulebook. These are digest-sized books.

$10 Base Level

Troika! Numinous Edition ($5, 56 pp, owned)
Get it at Sutlers ($15, 124 pp, owned) - department store setting
Ruinous Palace of the Metegorgos ($5, 32 pp)
Fungi of the Far Realms ($15, 280 pp)

+$10 Level Up

Acid Death Fantasy ($14, 52 pp, owned) - desert adventures
Fronds of Benevolence ($14, 48 pp, owned)
Slow Sleigh to Plankton Downs ($7, 40 pp, owned) - mystery adventure
Very Pretty Paleozoic Pals ($14, 101 pp)
Eye of the Aeons ($5, 72 pp)
Hand of God ($5, 68 pp, owned)
Season of the Snail ($5, 76 pp)
Whalgravaak's Warehouse ($5, 80 pp, owned)

Although I own a fair amount already it's still $20 for $49 new products which even on a good sale would still be about $33. Worth buying I think.

Sat May 31 2025

Sleep 0515 to 1100 (5-3/4 hours)

• We played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Started next chapter, The Son of a Witch, so I guess we’ll play it through before switching. I got separated from the others and did a side quest I think. Pretty nice in that it involved fighting flying wyrms but there was enough overhead cover (caves or tunnels) that I could pop out and back in and eventually got through most of it before the other guys caught up (they ended up high above me on a mountain but apparently a dead end so they jumped down to join me. It was nice having some time to myself.
• Checking my investments, in total back to about a level of last November. Still like 10% down from the Dec 01 2024 high.

Sun Jun 01 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Left foot is hurting a bit. Once again base pad of the toe hurts if I flex it. Can still walk around ok.

Mon 02 Jun 2025

Sleep 0600 to 1230 (6-1/2 hours)

• Foot bothering me a bit more today. Walked to front door to check something and walked back, about a couple of hundred feet. Bit painful.
• Looked it up and last time that it lasted more than a few days was Feb 2024. Had a scare in May 2024 but it was only a couple of days. And that time it was right foot. This time it’s left foot.
• Did a load of dishwasher and this time leaked a couple of cups of water which I mostly caught in a bucket. So a large tray should be able to catch almost all the water. Haven’t tested to see where leak is coming from so that I can maybe seal it with duct tape.

Tue Jun 03 2025

Sleep 0600 to 1300 (7 hours)

• Took me two or three hours to get to sleep foot was hurting quite a bit. I forgot that it hurts more when it’s elevated (i.e. when I’m lying down in bed). Taking an Advil helped.
• Left foot noticeably swollen.
• In the D&D campaign there was a question if the horses the PCs bought back were taken to the ranch or to the final selling place. I looked at the MacWhisper transcript: “She'll deliver them back to the horse ranch. She's not gonna deliver all the way to where you're supposed to go in the first place.” It’s not that easy to read so not sure if I change my mind later on.
• Had to put up a flyer in the front elevator. Used my old crutches (works fine though the rubber is dry and flaking away so eventually no padding will make it more painful to use). Took me like 10 minutes to hobble around the building and back and was fairly sweaty and tired by then.

Wed Jun 04 2025

Sleep 0300 to 1200 (9 hours)

• No C3 dinner because my foot hurting. They’re leaving this Friday to visit Corina’s sister’s family in North Carolina. I’m supposed to bring in the garbage, packages and pet Lima. Hopefully I’ll be able to do it.

Thu Jun 05 2025

Sleep 2330 to 0030, 0430 to 1130 (8 hours)

• Foot still hurting. Hard to tell if it’s getting better since I took an Advil at noon and 6 PM.

Fri Jun 06 2025

Sleep 0445 to 1145 (7 hours)

• Today my foot didn’t hurt so bad and could hobble about a bit better without using Advil. At 2100 went to C3’s house to bring the garbage bins and pet Lima. Wasn’t too bad walking though standing in one place more than half a minute was painful.
• Gloomhaven with DS and DW since C3 is in North Carolina visiting.

Today (Jun 12) Oracle announced their earnings and their stock jumped from $176.38 to $199.86. Back to where it was last November when I missed selling so I think time to sell some stock.

Some notes:

Would no longe qualify for Medi-Cal — limit is $21.6k. You report income change within 10 days. End of coverage triggers a 60-day Special Enrollment Period into Covered California.

Should still qualify for subsidized health care in Covered California. If my income is $55k it estimates $222 per month Silver plan ($984 per month subsidized).

Selling stocks gets taxes depending on profits. Single filer the first $48k has no long term capital gains tax, then 15% to $533k (so if I sell for $100k profit the first $48 is not taxed then the next $52k has 15% tax).

For California stock sales are taxes as regular income, though at least once again it's the profit that's taxed. If I use iCalculator for California at $55k I have $1556 in CA tax with max tax rate 13.3% — it's a graduated tax so it's not like everything is taxed at the max rate.

Question is what's my profit? If I sell 250 shares (almost $50k) cost basis is about $65 (LIFO method where my youngest stock is sold first — everything is over 2 years old). That makes $33750 profit so no capital gains. If I use FIFO then cost basis is about $28 so $43k profit and still no capital gains. I guess sell FIFO to avoid capital gains now (as stock price goes up selling that old stock will hit capital gains). I don't mind paying CA taxes as much since it's much lower.

So now I get $50k. Minus $1.5k in CA taxes. Minus ($250 x 12) = $3k for health insurance. Leaving $45.5k which is enough to cover me another year.

Platforms State of the Union

Liquid Glass
- Controls automatically get smaller when user is focused on content.

Foundation Models

XCode
- Integration with 3rd party AIs like ChatGPT and Anthropic
++ Generate code, generate docs, turn sketches into code, fix errors

Swift 6.2
- inline arrays
- span type
- WebKit Swift integration
- Swift integration with Java and JavaScript, Web Assembler (run in browser)

Containerization
- run Linux containers on Mac

Swift UI
- Web APIs: 3 new APs to bring web contact to apps
- AttributedString: String type with Rich Text
- 3D Charts
- Performance: idle prefetch - pre-render next frame when there is idle time to do so

VisionOS
- nearby window sharing
- persistent windows and widgets
- Apple Projected Media Profile (vr formarts)

Metal 4
- Updated Game Porting Toolkit

macOS Tahoe final release for Intel Macs

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I guess Liquid Glass and Foundation Models had the most coverage. I remember early Platforms State of the Union had exciting information but nowadays everything seems incremental.

Little spoiler at the end saying that this upcoming macOS Tahoe will be the last to support Intel Macs. I also read that Rosetta will be going away after macOS 27.

Sat May 24 2025

Sleep 0100 to 0845, 45m nap (8-1/2 hours)

• Gaming at Dave and Sophia’s place. Got a couple of hours done though we started very late. Just didn’t find a time when they weren’t talking to start the session.
• We played DDO last night and tonight. Since DW blew up we’ll continue playing I think at least until we’re level 20.

Sun May 25 2025

Sleep 0445 to 0945 (5 hours)

• Drove to mom and dad’s for Memorial Day weekend though just today and tomorrow. Took my car and left a bit late so got there after lunch. Dad made tallerin verde for dinner with breaded chicken (pounded flat then breaded and fried).
• We played Gloomhaven because I forgot my external HD but CSr brought an extra gaming laptop.

Mon May 26 2025

Sleep 0100 to 1015, 1 hour nap (10-1/4 hours)

• Loaded with a lot of food drove home. I left like an hour after the others, I think around 1600, but not too bad traffic.

Tue May 27 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1130 (7-1/2 hours)

• The only thing I miss with DuckDuckGo browser is integration with Apple Passwords. You can import those passwords into DDG but after that it’s not synced. Passwords has a browser extension you can install but not for DDG. Otherwise, considering it’s based on Safari engine it’s a fairly nice browser which I use to keep my Twitch modding separate from my regular web sites.

Wed May 28 2025

Sleep 0500 to 1200 (7 hours)

• C3+S dinner. Costco chicken, tortillas and hot sauce. Not bad.

Thu May 29 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• There was a NOWN workshop on landscaping contracts but I missed it. Luckily Keystone (our management company) now put the Zoom videos on YouTube.

Fri May 30 2025

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Bought Sixth World Shadows bundle of holding.
• We played DDO and got to level 20, finishing Sharn. So now we’ll take a break and do another game.

WWDC 25 Keynote (Jun 09 2025)

Foundation Models Framework - access to Apple Intelligence

Liquid Glass UI
- Unified design across all Apple platforms
- rounded buttons
- glass-like: partially see-through

(I imagine there will be criticism that some/many modes make it harder to read button text/icons. Probably there will be Accessibility settings to make the text/icons more contrasting to the background. Also I feel that better displays/screens mitigate this potential issue.)

Unified OS version numbers: e.g. iOS 26 and macOS 26

iOS 26
====================

Camera, Safari, FaceTime and other apps
- Content shown edge to edge, less controls shown OOTB
- Tap or drag up to show more controls
- Controls and control sheets translucent so content still mostly visible

Phone
- Unified layout: favorites on top, recents below, controls at bottom
- call screening: silently answer call, ask and get a response, if valid ring phone with transcribed response
- Hold Assist: detects hold music, will mute music, live agent causes phone to ring

Messages
- conversation backgrounds that everyone in conversation will see
- polls: manual or AI suggested, everyone can add options
- screen unknown senders: moved to separate section which you can check later, AI will suface important messages (codes or alerts)

Live Translation
- built into all Apple communication apps (Messages, FaceTime, Phone)
- read what a foreign speaker is saying in video/voice call
- speak in English and have it automatically translated to receiver
- Call Translation API

Apple Music
- Lyrics Translation
- Lyrics pronunciation
- AutoMix - mix songs for you like a DJ
- Music pins: pin favorites to top of library

Maps
- iPhone will learn preferred routes and offer alternatives if needed
- Visited Places (data protected with end-to-end encryption so Apple can't see it)

Wallet
- Keeps track of orders by noticing tracking emails (only for Apple Pay paid orders?)

Games app
- Home page has news from games you've installed
- Apple Arcade page
- Library shows all games you've ever downloaded (in case you want to re-install)
- Play Together: see what friends are playing, invite them to play, challenge friends

Visual Intelligence
- Now for anything shown on iPhone screen
- Take screen shot, on bottom will be Visual Intelligence options
- Also has ChatGPT option to ask a question about image

watchOS 26
====================

Workout Buddy
- analyses your data and does TTS encouragement and suggestions

Smart Stack
- improvements using Apple Intelligence

Wrist Flick gesture
- for no/later gestures, like ignore incoming Message

tvOS 26
====================

TV app
- Liquid UI
- Apple TV+ promo trailer
- Profiles
- Automatic Signin API

Music app
- Lyrics and Karaoke (Apple Music Sing)

macOS 26 (macOS Tahoe)
====================

Liquid Glass UI

Folder customization (color and icon)

Continuity
- Live Activities
- Phone app in macOS

Shortcuts
- Run shortcuts automatically (time or from an activity)
- Intelligent actions

Spotlight
- Intelligent suggestions
- Find an launch apps from iPhone
- Actions from Spotlight
- Find app commands and activate them
- Quick Keys: key shortcuts for commands (e.g. "sm" to Send Message)
- App Intents API to make your app actions discoverable in Shortcuts and Spotlight

Games app

Metal 4

visionOS 26
====================

Widgets
- spatial and persistent (e.g. a picture frame on a table)

Spatial Scenes
- automatically adds 3D to 2D photos

Shared Vision Pro view so two people can interact with the same objects.

Support for multiple users.

iPad OS 26
====================

Lots of new stuff that are the same as in iOS.

New Windowing system
- apps open in full screen
- bottom right grab handle to resize app, then move window around
- re-opening app shows window as you last left it
- pointer
- with pointer windows have macOS style close/minimize/full-screen
- flip window to tile
- with pointer there is an invisible menu bar, drag pointer to top to see it

(The new windowing system is pretty cool and more like a regular desktop computer whilst keeping in mind that it's both a smaller screen (some UI elements hidden until needed) and that not everyone has a pointer device (you can do stuff just with your finger). Lot of power users have been wanting something like this so hopefully they'll finally be happy.)

Files app
- updated list view
- folder customization
- choose default app for a file
- add folder in the Dock

Preview app
- new in iPad OS

Audio and Video
- Audio input selector: can choose a different input for each app
- Voice Isolation in all apps
- Record studio-quality audio with AirPods
- Local capture: capture your side of a video call
- Background Tasks: video exports will continue to run even if app is in background
- Background Tasks API

Journal app with Pencil support
- new in iPad OS

Another month of Netflix (until Jun 23). This time can't devote as much watching time since Disney+ is also ending Jun 23 and I want to finish watching a couple of things there.

The Princess Weiyoung (2016) - Chinese romantic drama of 54 45-minute episodes set during the Wei Empire. At two episodes a day it'll be the whole month to watch.

Alchemy of Souls (2022) - Netflix Korean romantic drama of 30 hour-plus-long episodes set in a fantasy Joseon Era-like world. Two episodes a day for half a month.

Vagabond (2019) - Netflix Korean action drama of 16 hour-long episodes set in modern world. I stopped most of the way through episode one because I thought Bae Suzy was going to be bad guy but on reading the Wiki I guess she's a good guy so I'll try to finish it.

That's probably it for this month.

Sat May 17 2025

Sleep 0345 to 0845, 2 hr nap (7 hours)

• Bought Against the Darkmaster Bundle. At first glance layout and art and look are all quite polished.

Sun May 18 2025

Sleep 0345 to 0930, 90m nap (7-1/4 hours)

• Going to move my Twitch subscriptions to first of month and use my checking account debit card (for the 10 debit card uses per month requirement). Too bad there’s no easy way to do this though I guess every subscription service is like that except maybe American Express where you can change the billing date.

Mon May 19 2025

Sleep 0015 to 0845 (8-1/2 hours)

• Bought Treasures of the Troll King for Mörk Borg at $4 (60% discount). At least one review said this is an ok adventure for MB and I guess I’d agree that MB adventures can be heavy on layout/graphic design and one good idea but lacking in organization and adventure design.
• Apple released iPadOS 17.7.8 so hopefully will be able to play STFC on my iPad.

Tue May 20 2025

Sleep 0700 to 1200 (5 hours)

• So hard falling asleep last night so I finished watching the last two episodes of Netflix before the subscription expires.

Wed May 21 2025

Sleep 2315 to 0800, 30m nap (9-1/4 hours)

• C3+S Dinner. Porridge and Things. CSr forgot to add an extra serving of porridge so a bit sad but I had some and it was tasty as always. I got the sausage fried rice and CSr also got beef chow fun. And there was gai lan for vegetable dish.

Thu May 22 2025

Sleep 0230 to 0915 (6-3/4 hours)

• macOS Sequoia 15.5 released. After the last iPadOS update issue I think I’ll wait a couple of weeks and mark it in my calendar as a reminder.

Fri May 23 2025

Sleep 2330 to 1230, 0800 to 1300 (6 hours)

• I had this 1024-piece puzzle almost 40% done and then got on a roll and spent 6 hours last night finishing it. Total time 13 hours. I’m not playing this game again. The dopamine as you add each piece is too addicting.
• Ooh, another month of Netflix. Clashes a bit with last month of Disney+.