Sat Oct 18 2025

Sleep 0200 to 0330 (1-1/2 hours)

• Last night we played Gloomhaven and got one scenario in. It was a survive 10 turns in a medium-sized room scenario with lots of spirits but CSr got out a volcano ally with ranged retaliation 2 and killed most of them while three of us had healing to keep it alive.
• Tonight was DDO and we tried Belly of the Beast which you have to run along an acid river and swim in acid and damage amazing a lot. We couldn’t quite do it at R2 so we’ll try again at R1 or Elite.

Sun Oct 19 2025

Sleep 0900 to 1500 (6 hours)

• MLS Playoffs will be free for Apple TV subscribers. Last year it was “rest of the season and playoffs free” which meant you could go back a month and watch games you couldn’t watch before. That was a lot of MLS watching for me so this year it’s more reasonable.

Mon Oct 20 2025

Sleep 2130 to 0130, 1400 to 1700 (7 hours)

• Received my notice that I am no longer in Medi-Cal but still qualify for Covered California and have until Nov 30 to enroll.
• GM Daniel Naroditsky died yesterday. Sad news.

Tue Oct 21 2025

Sleep 0300 to 1200 (9 hours)

• Designers & Dragons: Origins BackerKit ends Nov 20. It’s $200 for physical copies (4 hardcover books + slipcase). $80 for PDF + at-cost PODs if you want printed. Looking at other DTRPG products I’m guessing at-cost POD HC about $50 each, at-cost softcover color about $35 each. In the end no savings if you want print.
• Vortex’s bill for last Oct 06 visit is $563 for preventive maintenance on the door closer. Which they did do not exactly with my permission. At least we know that PMs are expensive and probably not worth it as replacing the door closer is like two PM visits. It does make me not want to use Vortex any longer since R&S Erection seems to do the same jobs well enough at cheaper prices.

Wed Oct 22 2025

Sleep 0200 to 1030 (8-1/2 hours)

• C3+S Dinner. We got delivery from Golden Wok. Cheap but tasty Chinese comfort food.

Thu Oct 23 2025

Sleep 0730 to 1345 (6-1/4 hours)

• Steph extended Netflix for another month. CSr said she wanted to watch a show coming out this month, though hopefully a show that drops all its episodes at once.

Fri Oct 24 2025

Sleep 0430 to 1030, 30m nap. (6-1/2 hours)

• Got a call and someone leaving a voicemail. On my Mac it showed a popup and live translation of the voicemail being left. Very cool. Phone still in sleep mode so it didn’t even ring. BTW was a spam call.