Sat Oct 07 2023

Sleep 0500 to 1030. 1-1/4 hour nap. (6-3/4 hours)

• We’ve had a bit of mix-up with HOA assessment payments. September notice said regular and special assessment (of $3k) due October 1st. We confirmed with management company that people would have until December 31st to pay and that special assessment would not be auto deducted. But apparently that got lost somewhere because people with auto ACH deductions got $3k + monthly dues deducted and they weren’t expecting that. So management company reversed those transactions.

Sun Oct 08 2023

Sleep 0400 to 1100. (7 hours)

• Mom and dad spent three weeks at home and now are off to Turkey (on Tuesday) for two weeks. Should be safe even with stuff heating up re: Palestine vs Iran war.

Mon Oct 09 2023

Sleep 0300 to 1000. 1 hour nap. (8 hours)

• So I have a Windows 10 VM on VMWare Fusion. The default install creates a 40 GB virtual drive. I wanted to add space so I increased the virtual drive size to 250 GB. The problem is you can’t make the C: partition use that extra space because it is not adjacent (the space used is boot stuff, c: drive, recovery partition, unallocated space).
• Looking online one option is to delete the recovery partition, allocate the space, then either live without a recovery partition, create a USB stick or other external media recovery volume, or create a new recovery partition. The latter options are fairly complicate and why does Windows make this so hard?
• Or you can use a third party utility like AOMEI Partition Assistant. It has a free version that doesn’t have the merge partitions option and a pro version (no demo, the “demo” allows you to set up your commands but won’t run if any of the commands are “pro only”). The pro version looks like it moves the recovery partition to last then expands the C: partition.
• Eventually I said f- it. I created an E: partition. Luckily Steam supports adding a new Storage volume and then when you install a game you can select the other Storage volume. Mostly ok since big games is what’s taking up all the space.
• Epic Games Store allows you to choose a download parent folder each time you install a game, so same effect.

Tue Oct 10 2023

Sleep 0530 to 1330. (8 hours)

• Time Machine nightly backups to an external 6 TB drive are taking 2+ hours (I have two backup drives so each drive runs every other day) because the drive is almost full. Used tmutil to delete the oldest 4 months of data to free up 1 TB of space (which took several hours to run; you can queue up multiple backups to delete by repeating -p argument). Hopefully that helps.

Wed Oct 11 2023

Sleep 0430 to 1230. (8 hours)

• Dinner at C3s. Delivery from Totoro Ramen. Had the ramen with miso (default has pork belly as the meat). Very good.

Thu Oct 12 2023

Sleep 0830 to 1130. 2 hour nap. (5 hours)

• This afternoon left ankle started to hurt, like a soreness. Running on the hardwood floor too much and I think as per it’s going to swell up tomorrow or Saturday and I’ll be hobbled for a week or two. Which means I should get needed groceries tonight (I’m out of white rice!).
• Oops. Looks like I miscalculated the ending date for the Shadowrun Legends bundle. Oh well, not that big a loss since I’ve never read any of the books.
• DDO: testing main client using CrossOver and alt client using Fusion + Windows 10. Auto follow worked for a while but after half an hour the alt client got crazy laggy. Maybe the VM ran out of memory.

Fri Oct 13 2023

Sleep 0115 to 0215. 0730 to 1315. (6-3/4 hours)

• Would Fusion + Windows work on my Mac mini? At first glance maybe not. Installed Fusion 13. Copied the VM over. Windows runs very slowly. I mean the Mac mini has an i5 with no graphics cards (just integrated graphics) compared to my MBP with an i9 and a Radeon graphics card. Although maybe it just looks slow since I’m using Apple’s Remote Desktop to view it (but it works fine when I’m controlling Mac stuff and I’ve even played an arcade game on it ok).
• DDO won’t start. I forgot it has this problem: after you set the window size, if the display becomes smaller than the window size then the app crashes on launch (a similar problem if the window’s last position is outside the display range of the new display, in which case the window shows up off screen). Had this problem whenever I visited my parents and had to run DDO on my MBP internal screen (which resolution size is smaller than my main screen). I fixed it by making my DDO window size the same size as my MBP internal screen so I can then launch it on any of my monitors. Not sure I can fix it now without uninstalling/reinstalling.
• Still can’t get DDO to start. In any case gave up on using Fusion + Windows on my Mac mini. It’s just too glacial.