Sun Jan 07 2024

Sleep 0400 to 0930. 1 hour nap. (6-1/2 hours)

• Didn’t get much sleep so I was “off” most of today.
• Last week of the NFL season. Only a few meaningful games it seems.

Mon Jan 08 2024

Sleep 0800 to 1330 (5-1/2 hours)

• DunDraCon 47 relaxing masks policy: “We do not require masks or vaccinations for our attendees.”, “Masks may be worn at the attendee's discretion. DunDraCon will not tolerate any harassment for wearing or not wearing a mask.” This is fine after two years of masks required. Yes I did like masks required but last year too many people just kind of refuse and they are a bit uncomfortable for a 4-hour game.
• Registered for DDC 47.

Tue Jan 09 2024

Sleep 0530 to 1330 (8 hours)

• I think Music cloud sync cuts off at 200 MB so I need to cut up some of my audio book files.

Wed Jan 10 2024

Sleep 0545 to 1345 (8 hours)

• BBEdit 15 released. $30 upgrade for BBEdit 14 owners. $40 upgrade for older versions. I bought my v14 license Jan 2022 for $50. It works fine so I’ll skip v15.
• Converting my audio book files to a smaller format. Easiest is to use Music conversion feature. Set import settings to MP3 custom 64kbps stereo, VBR, quality Med, Sample rate 22kHz, Mono channel. This turns it into a 34kbps VBR file about 1/4th the size of what I had it (AAC medium quality). It’s good enough quality for me. And doing it in Music copies all the meta-data including album art. Anyway, the above MP3 settings are good for up to about 13 hour audio files.
• I bought a new KB and noticed some of the lag input playing DDO seems to be gone now. I blamed it on CrossOver getting worse as the OS is updated but I guess not. Strange that my old KB worked fine otherwise. Then again I’ve spilled so many liquids into it there are probably small glitches that go unnoticed.

Thu Jan 11 2024

Sleep 0645 to 1400 (7-1/4 hours)

• Organized my freezer section so at least I know what’s the old stuff to eat first.
• There is a security patch for Apple Magic Keyboards. Sure enough I connected my old KB (which was on version 1.0.x and after a while — more than few minutes, maybe it was waiting for the KB to be idle — it now says it’s on version 2.0.6 — you check in Bluetooth settings —> device info.

Fri Jan 12 2024

Sleep 0245 to 1045 (8 hours)

• Yep, my AirPods Max pretty much dead. Won’t even go into factory reset mode.
• AirPods Pro arrived yesterday. Opened them today. Needs a USB-C charger and luckily I have one that came with my Apple Watch. Guess I’ll be sharing that charger and switching out the cables as needed.
• Dave S joined us for DDO. He created an account and a new character.