Sat Nov 18 2023

Sleep 0315 to 1030 (7-1/4 hours)

• Gaming at Dave and Sophia’s.
• D&D Session #6. Finally at the Caves of Chaos and they finished Cave A (Kobolds).
• Dinner at… not sure where. Gourmet House, Fremont. I knew iOS location services has a history of significant locations but hard to remember where it is even using the system search (neither location nor significant showed the answer). Here’s an article showing graphically where to find location history.
• Installed CrossOver on my Mac mini (running macOS Monterey 12.7.1). Installed Dungeons & Dragons Online. When I start it and login, select a server, then it shows a couple of waiting screens but before it shows 3d character selection screen it kicks me out of Remote Desktop. I can login via ssh but a few minutes later the Mac mini restarts. Happened twice so I guess DDO won’t run.

Sun Nov 19 2023

Sleep 0630 to 1030, 1900 to 2030. (5-1/2 hours)

• Last couple of COVID shots (6/22 and 11/22) were $65. The shot I had last month was $284. 424% increase. Health insurance covered all of it.

Mon Nov 20 2023

Sleep 0630 to 1330 (7 hours)

• I’ve been using Twitch with Chrome lately since that’s the best performance. But since Chrome is going to disable ad-blockers (Google being an ad company it’s understandable but points to the fact that Chrome is not really for users but for Google to track users) it’s time to switch.
• I tried Safari with Twitch but it’s actually very slow (mostly UI actions, if I just let things play video and chat is fine but I’m a mod so need to do UI actions). Twitch is heavy JavaScript and I guess Safari is not that great with it.
• Back to Brave for now which I was using for a while. Long enough ago that I decided to reset Brave which meant reconfiguring mod view on Twitch. Not as fast as Chrome but doable. I kind of remember FireFox (and Brave as it uses the same engine) eventually would slow to a crawl after a few weeks or months. I guess lots of caching by Twitch web app.

Tue Nov 21 2023

Sleep 0200 to 1400 (12 hours)

• I upgraded RapidWeaver Classic for $35 last year. Annual renewal is tomorrow and it’ll be $86 which is more than I’m willing to pay so I’ll cancel. In one year it went from v8.10.4 to v9.2.1.

Wed Nov 22 2023

Sleep 0630 to 1230 (6 hours)

• DriveThruRPG Black Friday Sale. A lot of stuff at 40% though also a lot of stuff at 20% off. 40% would have it as big a sale as DTRPG does.

Thu Nov 23 2023

Sleep 0145 to 0800 (6-1/4 hours)

• Drove to Mom and Dad’s in the morning. C3 and Steph got there mid-afternoon.
• Lunch was beef stew-like and rice.
• Got to watch NFL football on television for the first time in years. Watched the second half of the first game, the first half of the second game (it was kind of over by then), and the 49ers at Seahawks game.
• Dinner was crab, duck, winter melon soup, something else, rice.
• Bought U1 Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh for $3 (40% off)

Fri Nov 24 2023

Sleep 0500 to 1245 (7-3/4 hours)

• C3 and Steph visited Corina’s family in Modesto, came back for dinner.
• Dinner was shrimp balls, roast pork, beef and string beans, rice.
• Bought Super Blood Harvest - OMNIBUS edition for $9 (40% off). This is three zines.