Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Dec 02 to Dec 08 2023

Sat Dec 02 2023

Sleep 0300 to 0930 (6-1/2 hours)

  • OCS Crimea arrived. It’s on the smaller end of an OCS game. 1 map, three counter sheets (one with markers and two with units).
  • That’s the last of my four MMP preorders shipped so now have no preorders there.

Sun Dec 03 2023

Sleep 0315 to 1115 (8 hours)

  • Nemo’s Stream-a-thon starts today and runs 3 days, with a 4th day if a points goal is reached. Points are gained by donations in cash or bits, subscriptions, and gifted subscriptions.

Mon Dec 04 2023

Sleep 0400 to 1130 (7-1/2 hours)

  • iCloud Advanced Data Protection. Currently supports all my devices except my Mac mini which tops out at macOS 12.7 (need 13.1+). So for now not an option unless I take the Mac mini off of iCloud (which I guess is doable since it’s primary a headless server, but inconvenient).

Tue Dec 05 2023

Sleep 0530 to 1130 (6 hours)

  • RapidWeaver Classic has this bug or feature in the Blog template. When you create a new entry it copies at least some of the formatting of whatever entry you have selected. When you first create the blog page and add an entry it has this default formatting. Then continue to add entries and they all look consistent. But then I accidentally paste in some text that has formatting and the formatting changes and if I don’t notice then subsequent entries have this new formatting. And I couldn’t figure out how to fix it because I tried create new entry then paste in text only (copy to BBEdit doc then copy that text and copy to RapidWeaver) but formatting was still there. Only recently did I discover that I just need to select an entry with goo formatting then click new entry.

Wed Dec 06 2023

Sleep 0330 to 0800 (4-1/2 hours)

  • DDO Hardcore League s9 starts. Christopher and I played about three hours. Almost got myself killed. Not sure what happened since I was maneuvering my alt character up to catch up with the party.

Thu Dec 07 2023

Sleep 0200 to 1030, 1 hour nap (9-1/2 hours)

  • The last couple of times I’ve put my Mac to sleep overnight when I wake it up both monitors just show the desktop. When I unplug/replug in a monitor then all the application windows show up but on the wrong monitor so I have to move all the windows back to the main monitor.

Fri Dec 08 2023

Sleep 0230 to 0800, 1 hour nap (6-1/2 hours)

  • Woke up early so I could run into cleaning crew and give their shift leader a Christmas gift from the HOA, and also to let AT&T tech in.
  • We upgrade a phone plan but turns out AT&T wants to put in a VoIP box (Voice over Internet Protocol) and that needs an Ethernet connection which we don’t have in the garage. The VoIP box has a cellular backup which is weak in the garage but it has antennas which will help a lot. I guess this is AT&T’s solution to keep business customers running while their phone cable lines are slowly left to die.
  • Also we found the phone panel (on the outside wall of the back garbage room) and it’s the original from 1989 so looks very old and fragile.