Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Oct 12 to Oct 18 2024

Sat Oct 12 2024

Sleep 0830 to 1230, 30m nap (4-1/2 hours)

  • D&D #18 at W3's house. Got 1-3/4 hours without DS and Corina. Pizza My Heart for dinner.
  • Another Gloomhaven scenario that night. I finished my summon goal so no more rats as I switch to controlling people.

Sun Oct 13 2024

Sleep 0330 to 1100 (7-1/2 hours)

  • Jury Duty. I'm group 1008 and it seems go in order so groups 1001 to 1004 got called up tomorrow morning. My group probably won't be called for the afternoon session.

Mon Oct 14 2024

Sleep 0615 to 1415 (8 hours)

  • No Jury Duty.
  • Bought Power Rangers RPG bundle.

Tue Oct 15 2024

Sleep 0330 to 1130 (8 hours)

  • iPad Mini 7. For the same $500 base price you get a better processor (A17 Pro vs A15 Bionic), more RAM (8 GB vs 4 GB, though Apple Intelligence will suck up most of the extra RAM), and more storage (128 GB vs 64 GB). Display and camera hardware stay the same. Slightly better Bluetooth, WiFi and USB-C. I think my next iPad will be a Mini.
  • One thing I've noticed is that XCode Previews keeps running after I've quite Playgrounds, and if I do notice it it's because it's using 100% cpu. Quit doesn't help so I have to Force Quit it.

Wed Oct 16 2024

Sleep 0200 to 0330, 0845 to 1445 (7-1/2 hours)

  • I use = a lot not because I'm doing a calculation but to denote a result. For example I might write "event 1" = "prize 1" "prize 2" just to remind myself that this game event has these prizes. But now macOS helpfully tries to compute a result which unfortunately doesn't work for me. So now I'm getting into the habit of using ==.

Thu Oct 17 2024

Sleep 2330 to 0500, 1630 to 1730 (7-1/2 hours)

  • CSr and I walked for an hour last night and when I got home I was very tired, though still took a couple of hours before I went to bed.
  • Ars Magica Definitive Edition BackerKit. $150 physical + $14 shipping, $40 digital.

Fri Oct 18 2024

Sleep 0615 to 0930, 1030 to 1145 (4-1/2 hours)

  • Deadlands Night Train is shipping next week. The Kickstarter finished Nov 02 2023.