Sat Jan 10 2026

Sleep 0115 to 0815, 30m nap (7-1/2 hours)

• Vent cleaner company (The Vent Cleaner) came by this morning. I had to let them in walked out of my apartment without my front door keys -- I automatically picked up the keys on the counter and walked out but apparently I had left my front door keys in my other pants pocket. And then as I was thinking about it I walked into the courtyard and locked myself out of the building.
• Luckily I had my phone so used the call box to ring myself and the vent guys into the building. And I had picked up the misc keys so I had the office key and could grab my emergency backup we store in the office (along with anyone else who wants to store an emergency key there). I had only put in an emergency key a couple of months ago when I decided I'm never having guests at my place in any case.
• Vent cleaning was interesting. Guy comes in and moves my dryer forward then climbs into the back. Uses a power tool to unscrew the exhaust tube then has this blow dryer thing with an exhaust-sized hose that he uses to blow the lint out into the exhaust shaft. Someone on the roof has a vacuum cleaner with a long hose they drop in and suck up the lint. Takes like 10 minutes so 19 units is about 3 hours for two people. But there were two people working the floor so 1-1/2 hours with slack in case of difficulties.
• Donated via GoFundMe and I forgot that if I select PayPal it uses the last PayPal funding source and doesn't ask. I find that quite annoying.

Sun Jan 11 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1030 (7-1/2 hours)

• At my parents when I'm using this soft mousepad (which is still better than using the mouse on a cloth-covered dining room table), I have a hard time clicking Notepad links, it usually selects text or does nothing. When I'm home on a hard-topped desk then my Apple Magic Mouse clicks links just fine. Possibly the mousepad makes it seem like I click + move the mouse a little so it's not really a "activate link" command. If I use the Glorious Model O mouse the click usually registers correctly.
• Power outage from about 1215 to 1450. Luckily sun was out so got 100 minutes of reading in. PG&E is fairly good at estimating time to repair. Usually estimate comes within 30 minutes of the outage and the estimate (in this case it was 1445) is pretty accurate, I guess maybe it's "find out which part is broken, get part from depot, replace it". An email saying power was back came at 1450.
• Modiphius another web site transition to Shop. I can login with my current password (and when you put in an email address it triggers opening a little "login with Shop" window) but no UI choice to change my password.

Mon Jan 12 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1130 (8 hours)

• I forgot Gym Precision was coming by to do maintenance. Luckily he got here about 1230 (estimate was 1100 to 1400).
• Got a text saying I needed to schedule an appointment for 2 fillings. Earliest afternoon opening is March 17th which is great since that'll be six months after Mom's surgery so she'll have full range of motion.
• I thought this up in the shower: since Dave W doesn't like MechWarrior 5 the plan will be Fri/Sat play MW5 until Dave W arrives then switch to Gloomhaven/DDO. Gloomhaven we'll often have to break in the middle of a scenario until the next week but that seems to work ok. DDO has few very long quests -- and in that case we can run at a low Reaper level -- so we should be fine there.

Tue Jan 13 2026

Sleep 0430 to 1200 (7-1/2 hours)

• Apple Creator Studio bundle at $130 per year. If you're a professional I think it's a lot cheaper than something from Adobe. And for non-professionals Apple still has iMovie (instead of Final Cut Pro) and GarageBand (instead of Logic Pro), though nothing free instead of Pixelmator Pro.

Wed Jan 14 2026

Sleep 0530 to 1200 (6-1/2 hours)

• Started playing Slay the Spire+ (for the first time) after I went to bed and a couple of hours later I finished a run to completion and it was 0530.

Thu Jan 15 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0930 (6-1/4 hours)

• Got my Kaiser bill. Used it to register to kp.org/payonline (which redirects to https://ucp.aciondemand.com). From there I could pay my bill. Paying from my kp.org login still doesn't work, pay and set up recurring payments buttons don't do anything in Safari or Chrome. It's only by going to the help and watching that video that I got the kp.org/payonline link.

Fri Jan 17 2026

Sleep 0000 to 0500, 1145 to 1345 (7 hours)

• Prepping for tomorrow's D&D session.
• Printing out stuff I won't have a chance to do later.
• Playing too much Slay the Spire.