Sat Nov 05 2022

Sleep 2030 to 0130. 0715 to 0830. (6-1/4 hours)

• Peruvian breakfast: ham, cheese, bread.
• Jaime, Daniela, mom and dad went to Napa for wine tasting.
• We left early because Cjr had a birthday party to attend.

Sun Nov 06 2022

Sleep 0145 to 0545. 1245 to 1430. (5-3/4 hours)

• A day to relax. Maybe a day to get some good sleep but that was not to be.
• Fantasy football league: good win against the top team and now there are three 6-3 teams and I am one of them. Two 5-4 teams right behind us.

Mon Nov 07 2022

Sleep 2245 to 0600. (7-1/4 hours)

• Was thinking of going to Inca's Grill but it's kind of pricey so made lunch at home instead. The $42 (what I spent last time) I instead spent at...
• Black Diamond Games. Bought Savage Sisters RPG (a pamphlet book from 9th Level Games) and Traveller Explorer's Edition (the PDF is free).
• Dentist appointment. Kim is my new dental hygienist. She was a bit rough and not so good using the suction straw to suck the water out of my mouth. Dr Dowd said I will need a bit of dental work next visit for a cavity and an area that needs bonding (painting a protective layer over the area).
• On my iPad 5th generation Books app crashes reading the Annotated US Constitution, which is 2800-odd pages. Actually it reads it fine until I got to page 2260 or so and then it crashes. Easy fix is to create a PDF of the last 600 pages.

Tue Nov 08 2022

Sleep 2130 to 0200. 1130 to 1500. (8 hours)

• I think I mentioned this before that COBRA monthly payment deadlines extended a year so for example the Dec 09 payment (with 30 days grace period to Jan 08 2023) has a new deadline of Jan 08 2024. I suppose you could game it by not paying premiums until you need insurance for something big and then you do catch up premiums (they say they can deny benefits if you're not up to date on premium payments but they can't kick you out until you miss the payment deadline). Anyway a thought but not my style.
• Checking the COBRA web site looks like my employer did cover the first month for me as the initial payment I made is credited to Nov premium while Oct premium says I had $0 amount due.
• Activated my Mint Mobile account and initiated phone number transfer. AT&T is mostly easy as you just login and go to a page to generate a transfer PIN. The first time you try to transfer AT&T blocks it and sends you a text message to confirm... Had trouble login in to my Mint Mobile account (guess I didn't set password correctly) and if you do forgot login it wants to send a code to the temporary phone number so I need the SIM installed... Downloaded Mint app and it was easier doing it there and it shows that the password I set had an invalid character. Number port took a couple of minutes... Phone says No SIM which might be because it's not activated yet? Maybe I need to get closer to a T-Mobile cell node... Went to an Apple Support article and first fix was reboot phone which worked... Getting two/three bars sitting at my home desk which is better than AT&T (I think that was one/two bars so for hotspot I would move my phone closer to the window)... Still can't login to my account on browser (luckily I'm logged in on app) and when I try to get security code it doesn't recognize my phone number so I guess that's not quite in the system?... Ah, I got an email confirming my number is ported and now I can login using that phone number (you use your cell phone number for user name).

Wed Nov 09 2022

Sleep 2330 to 0330. 3 hour nap. (7 hours)

• Paid off my second and last month AT&T mobile bill. Two months of AT&T costs the same as a year of Mint Mobile.

Thu Nov 10 2022

Sleep 0030 to 0530. (5 hours)

• Fire alarm went off twice. First time at midnight and I had just gone to bed and not asleep. Walked for half an hour. Second time at 0530.
• Wanted to go to Backhaus. Read about it in the newspaper but never been there. Since I was awake early I drove there at 0745 (they open at 0730 and street parking is free until 0800) but a bit of a line so I skipped and went to Safeway for groceries. Drive by at 0805 and only a couple of customers. Guess I'll walk there about 0815 one day.
• DMV keeps sending me emails about renewing my vehicle registration, which I've already done and when I go to web site it says I don't need to renew.
• I finally redeemed my 2-month DDO VIP that came with I think Masterminds of Sharn expansion I bought like 3 years ago. So I guess no time limit for redemption.
• I've always said we moved to the USA when I was eight. Mom corrected me. We moved when I was 7-3/4 years old.

Fri Nov 11 2022

Sleep 2130 to 0630. 1 hour nap. (10 hours)

• Ice cream with CW3.
• Csr and I watched Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Quite good.