Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Sep 16 to Sep 22 2023

Sat Sep 16 2023

Sleep 0630 to 1330. (7 hours)

  • Walked to the SMCU ATM but forgot my card so couldn't deposit money.
  • The reason I'm doing this is to get an hour walk in at the end of the day to hit my goals for both the current day and the next day. It is hard to time it so I hit my goals close to midnight -- the previous times I had to jog a bit to hit the goals in the final couple of minutes. This time I hit it 15 minutes early so I sat down for a bit and listened to a podcast until midnight.

Sun Sep 17 2023

Sleep 0530 to 1230. (7 hours)

  • HOA: Looks like we're ready to have people sign up for EV charger installations. The cost is $4600 installation (within 100 feet of meter so should be less for me) + $650 for Wallbox Pulsar Plus 40A Universal EV Charger (which has both WiFi and Bluetooth so technically don't need set up WiFi in garage).
  • You can update the Wallbox via Bluetooth + myWallbox app.

Mon Sep 18 2023

Sleep 0530 to 1100. 30 min nap. (6 hours)

  • Went to dentist to get replacement crown. Anesthesia and drilling take like half an hour and then another half hour at the end to put in the crown. Then there's the middle hour plus you're lying there napping while the tooth cools down from the drilling.
  • Went to Whole Foods afterwards. Got Key Lime Tart as they didn't have a Fruit Tart. Cheese and maybe old bread. Sushi (probably not worth the price) and New England Clam Chowder (pretty good). Also a couple of thick pork chops but they didn't have any Tagliatelle noodles; guess I'll use Fettuccine which I have at home.

Tue Sep 19 2023

Sleep 0515 to 1345. (8-1/2 hours)

  • Signed up for Twitch chess channel subscription and confirmed 4K Video Downloader+ doesn't support private channels except for YouTube.
  • Did find the chesscomlive channel on YouTube so perhaps I can download the videos I want from there... yes, able to do that.

Wed Sep 20 2023

Sleep 0400 to 1230. (8-1/2 hours)

  • C2 got COVID during their Spain vacation so they're in isolation. I'll skip this week's dinner and it should be fine next Wednesday.
  • Uh, oh. Ran out of ground coffee. I have a sealed bag of bean coffee which I mistakenly bought a few years ago and need to ground at my brother's place. I also have Nescafe instant coffee which expired 2015.
  • Made Nescafé and tasted fine (in that it already tasted bad and doesn't seem worse). With a cookie or key lime tart (I have some right now) it's just fine.

Thu Sep 21 2023

Sleep 0215 to 0315. 0730 to 1300. (6-1/2 hours)

  • Bundle of Holding: Hostile is revived and same as when it was offered in April 2022. Back then I looked at it and decided not to buy it so I'll stick with that.
  • Bundle of Holding: Mistborn Adventure Game is for an epic fantasy RPG based on Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels. Fantasy RPG that is not OSR (Mistborn is a d6 die pool system) is a hard sell to me so I'll skip this one too.
  • Walked to Mi Rancho Supermarket. Got a bit more milk and a gallon of mango juice. Wanted to buy coffee grounds but they just have instant coffee: Folgers and Nescafé. They also have pan dulce which is pretty neat.

Fri Sep 22 2023

Sleep 0530 to 1100. (5-1/2 hours)

  • I was hoping that YouTube's "Hide user from my channel" would block them from recommended feed but nope. Feature used to be called something more aggressive like "Block user from my channel" and people said it had the effect I want.