Sat Apr 15 2023

Sleep 0515 to 1400. (8-3/4 hours)

• My Friday Night Baseball misadventures continue. I already knew when the live stream ends and is replaced with the video if you're watching the game skips ahead I'm assuming to the same video time you were on the live stream but it's a few innings later.
• I paused the game then put my iPad to sleep. Next day I woke my iPad which was on the game and it gave an error. Dismissed it then tapped resume watching and it started several innings after I paused. Aargh. Ruins it for me so I gave up watching this game.
• Now it's the next day and let's see if I have issues watching the second game.
• Second game's viewing went fine.

Sun Apr 16 2023

Sleep 0700 to 1345. (6-3/4 hours)

• Took me half an hour to figure out Wiki.js permissions system. The key is the first line element is an ALLOW/DENY toggle. I thought it was just a graphic -- I assumed if the permission is not listed then it's denied so I essentially did ALLOW (no permissions) which means it's not overwriting inherited permissions.
• Also it's not a great permissions system because it's setup in admin pages so would be hard for a user to set page permissions. You can sort of work around it using tags but is unwieldy when I think about it. For now though I set it so that "secret" tag restricts page from Guests that way I can have restricted pages for GM secret notes.

Mon Apr 17 2023

Sleep 0415 to 1250. (8 hours)

• Found this in DDO. Created an iconic for storage so level 15. Have a level 24 who has done the quests at Elite. They're both in the same party. Level 24 goes to quest entry dialog. Level 15 then goes to same dialog and sees all options available. Level 15 can go in as Elite. Level 24 cancels and doesn't go into quest. Quest XP is calculated for Level 15 character.
• So you can use a high level character to enable Elite and not worry that your low level characters will get zero XP. Not all quests allow this hack but most did.

Tue Apr 18 2023

Sleep 0415 to 1230. (8-1/4 hours)

• For new DDO character spent about four hours (2 yesterday and 2 today) getting 150 Coin Lords and 150 Kundarak favor for the extra inventory and bank slots. It's much quicker when you have a second character that can open Elite for you.

Wed Apr 19 2023

Sleep 0415 to 1400. (9-3/4 hours)

• PG&E work to install more capacity in our building. Power out until 1530 hence why I let myself sleep late.
• Couldn't get my Mac mini back up in headless mode. Then couldn't get it running hooked up to a monitor (it blank screens unless it goes into password reset mode or into recovery mode). Wiped out HD and reinstalled Monterey but still won't use monitor (an it was using the same monitor when I first installed Monterey on it).
• I can get into the recent Time Machine backups (which I only turned on last week). Looks like homebrew stuff gets backed up including the postgres db. Guess I can install the server setup on my MBP for now.
• Anyways, I have one other monitor I can try with my Mac mini...
• Moving the web site and wiki to my MBP was fairly easy. After using homebrew to install stuff I copied config files from the last Time Machine backup. I used Finder copy for /usr/local/var/postgresql@15 and database worked fine and Wiki.js looks good. Does not have my latest changes -- guess I was doing last minute work and then shut down the server without letting it do a backup -- but days of recreating from scratch reduced to a couple of hours.

Thu Apr 20 2023

Sleep 0300 to 0800. (5 hours)

• I recently realized that for my credit union premium status (which you need to achieve each month to get the high interest rate) the one deposit per month does not have to be a direct deposit, it can be any check deposit. Not that important since I moved most of my cash to a high yield savings account.

Fri Apr 21 2023

Sleep 0500 to 1100. (6 hours)

• Had power outages yesterday and today. It was the area, not just our building, so coincidental to use getting a power upgrade from PG&E.
• Nice having two UPSs to keep things running during a power outage. If it's more than a few minutes I'll shut down one or both monitors since that's the biggest power draw (my laptop is not on the UPS which I guess it should be for surge protection).