Kevin C. Wong

Diary - May 22 to May 28 2021

Sat May 22 2021

Sleep 0315 to 1130. (8-1/4 hours)

  • AAA Identity Champion sent me an alert that my home phone (the only one I have them monitoring) was found on the dark web recently. They suggest checking if any credit cards or loans have been opened in my name. That doesn't really help me -- it's just noisy alerting. Now if they notified whenever a credit card is opened in my name or maybe whenever there is a credit check on me (and who is doing the checking) that would be useful.

Sun May 23 2021

Sleep 0430 to 1130. (7 hours)

  • Received The Excellents, a kids' RPG where they play princesses. Didn't really think about it when I pledged the Kickstarter but the books is really small, about the size of one of the pocket-sized notebooks I had in high school.

Mon May 24 2021

Sleep 0200 to 0830. (6-1/2 hours)

  • HOA Meeting. We had a disciplinary session. Guy managed to address the two big issues before the meeting (paying his $5k for the assessment on homeowners, picking up his backlog of packages from the package rack). Decided not to fine him.

Tue May 25 2021

Sleep 0200 to 0830. (6-1/2 hours)

  • Received second Moderna shot.
  • Got Zachary's. One medium stuffed carne.
  • 101 Fish and Chips. Closed. Hopefully not permanently.
  • Popeyes. Parking lot full. Pizza tonight it is.
  • Darn. Chipped off more of my tooth. Same tooth. Hope it was another filling.
  • Nope. Feels like a big chip next to the gum line.
  • Signed up for vsafe.cdc.gov which is a way for CDC to track what kind of side-effects people get from COVID-19 vaccines. It's daily checkin (they send a text at 14:00) for a week, then weekly for another 5 weeks, then one at 3-, 6-, and 12-months since vaccination.

Wed May 26 2021

Sleep 0030 to 0830. (8 hours)

  • Woke up definitely a bit sick. Mild body ache and chills, maybe elevated temperature.
  • Humble Bundle for Tales from the Loop & Symbaroum. For once an RPG bundle that kind of sucks compared to Bundle of Holding. BoH was two bundles and more expensive but was pretty much all existing products from both RPG lines. Humble Bundle is a few items from each (though to be fair TftL has few products).
  • The new Humble Bundle UI is not great. You can see all products but not which tiers they are in. Or you can filter by tier (which is an additive process). A far cry from being able to see al the tiers at once and which products are in which tier.
  • Frak! Enterprise device management is making me change my password on my old MBP.

Thu May 27 2021

Sleep 0330 to 1130. 2 hour nap (10 hours)

  • Woke up and feel fine. Actually maybe get fatigue easily.
  • After the hot tub streaming meta Twitch has recently added Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches category where you can watch bikini-clad girls in indoor wading pools. I got no problem with that but Twitch needs better parental controls (they have none). All a parent can currently do is block the whole site (or app).
  • TikTok sign up sucks on the web. Once you go through the process it then says you have to do it on the mobile app where you go through the process again.
  • Guess I was discounting this earlier but later in the day I've had a lingering headache. And I so rarely have headaches.

Fri May 28 2021

Sleep 0400 to 0800. (4 hours)

  • Put up US flag for Memorial Day in our building pool area.
  • Holy frick! I finally figured out how to get vncserver to give user default window manager so now I can use JollysFastVNC instead of depending on our buggy Secure Global Desktop. (Ok, not so much figured out as "I copied xstartup settings from an environment where it works and now it works for me too".)