Sat Oct 14 2023

Sleep 0315 to 1015. (7 hours)

• San Mateo Credit Union changing its name to Monterra Credit Union, I guess a more neutral name to appeal to a wider geographical area.

Sun Oct 15 2023

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

• With last week’s HOA management company auto ACH deductions issue I haven’t had my monthly HOA dues deducted yet (usually it’s like 9th to 11th of the month). I checked the HOA portal and it says they initiated ACH on the 8th but perhaps it was cancelled in which case I’m not sure if I should manually pay it or they’ll do try automatic again. Guess I will wait another week.

Mon Oct 16 2023

Sleep 0445 to 1300. (8-1/4 hours)

• ACH deductions went through today.
• Received Girl by Moonlight hardcover rulebook. The four bonus playsets are also small printed books in full color with pictures. Still a bunch of stuff left: Roll20 module, books in EPUB/MOBI format, Zine by Moonlight no. 1-10.
• Also last week received BCS 9-06 Valley of Tears. Battalion Combat Series wargame covering the Yom Kippur War (1973). Shrinkwrapped so I won’t be opening and admiring it until perhaps I decide to try to play it many years from now. Then again more likely I’ll play it using Vassal.

Tue Oct 17 2023

Sleep 0400 to 1200. (8 hours)

• macOS Sonoma seems to have fixed this Notes issue. I have a 3x7 table where I keep trap of minutes in three categories for each day of the week. Then I delete the entries and start again the next week. It sometimes would lose track of the cursor so if I cursor right or left or start typing the cursor might shift back by itself. Anyway don’t think I’ve seen this issue recently.

Wed Oct 18 2023

Sleep 0215 to 0930. (7-1/4 hours)

• Woken up by emergency alert for a small earthquake near Isleton. A bit annoying.
• Dinner at C3. Frozen food Korean fried chicken nuggets which were not bad.
• Groceries at Trader Joe’s. I recently realized that their whole chicken thighs @ $2 per pound are the same price as Safeways (barring a 2-for-1 sale) except Safeways you buy a whole pack of 10-12 at a time where Trader Joe’s packages them at three per so keeps better.

Thu Oct 19 2023

Sleep 0515 to 1245. (7-1/2 hours)

• DriveThruRPG is now forcing me to use the preview UI. One thing is that when you go to the current Halloween Sale it doesn’t tell you when the sale ends. The search fields are now pop-up dialog boxes with a seeded list and for diverse filters (e.g. Publisher or Rule System) you can search for other terms.
• For Publisher I liked the old one-big-dropdown-list as you can browse the publishers whereas a search box you can’t really do that. You can search A and see Axxx publishers listed first but type N and it shows publishers which have a N in their name in alphabetical order and it only shows like 20 results so it must show like the top 20 popular results.

Fri October 20 2023

Sleep 0645 to 1230. (5-3/4 hours)

• I have one internal screen (which I keep closed/off) and two external monitors and using macOS Sonoma. Twice now when I wake up from sleep (I don’t often put my MBP to sleep) it’s in this weird mode where it won’t show any app screens it’s just two monitors showing the menu bar, desktop background (not even desktop contents), and dock. I have to open the internal screen to get everything to start showing up again. I think when I wake it the internal screen is “active” and the main screen so everything is happening there even though the screen is off.