Sat Mar 14 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Saw a newspaper article about a plan to redevelop my local Safeway. There will be a Safeway plus 400 living units. My local Trader Joe's mall is also being renovated though that was announced years ago and no visible sign that anything has started. There are often holdups.

Sun Mar 15 2026

Sleep 0415 to 0945, 1815 to 1900 (6-1/4 hours)

• MacWhisper: I realized that the Parakeet v3 model often only transcribes 10 or 20 minutes and then stops. That does make it seem so much faster than other models. I switched back to Large v3 Turbo which is slower but still transcribes at like 10x audio speed. Now I have to check previous transcriptions for the last couple of months.

Mon Mar 16 2026

Sleep 0500 to 1300 (8 hours)

• Stayed up late to catch up on weekly reading.
• Apple AirPods Max 2 ($550). I want this even though it may have the same moisture problems as the previous versions. None of the reviews I've seen mention if the build quality is improved, though I think they're all going off of the press release and none have physically touched the new product.
• Months ago I was getting a bunch of cold calls and emails from one of the Fidelity investment teams, all of which I ignored. Finally I answered a call and told them I wasn't interested. That was maybe three months ago say. Maybe a month ago I started getting cold calls and emails from a different Fidelity investment team. This time I blocked their number and will have to mark their email as spam.

Tue Mar 17 2026

Sleep 0100 to 1000 (9 hours)

• Went to the dentist and had two fillings done, one in upper right and one in lower left. Took an hour so it was quick. Luckily no pain when he injected the anesthesia (first they do a local so that the injection doesn't hurt but sometimes it hits an awake nerve). Drilling sound is disconcerting and sometimes there's a lot of water in my mouth -- good thing that today I could breathe from my nose; when it's a bit stuffy and I have to breathe through my mouth it's really tough.
• Afterwards I went to 99 Ranch and got some tofu, black bean sauce, and then other things I can get at a normal store. And still I went to Trader Joe's for some meat as I didn't find anything appealing in 99 Ranch (other than ground pork).

Wed Mar 18 2026

Sleep 0230 to 1030 (8 hours)

• C3+S dinner. Steph made corned beef, potatoes, carrots, cabbage. Everything was good though the cabbage was a bit bitter.

Thu Mar 19 2026

Sleep 0145 to 0815 (6-1/2 hours)

• HOA Board training seminar which I've attended before but it's a little different each time. A couple of new things I learned: confidential information has to be kept confidential even after you leave the Board (makes sense); for a building walkthrough (like for say Reserve Study) if a majority of board members are present then it's a meeting and homeowners should be allowed to attend (and I think we did this before for something when I wasn't on the board yet); always carry workplace injury insurance because it's cheap and just in case -- homeowner hires someone who gets injured and has no insurance and sues homeowner and then HOA.

Fri Mar 20 2026

Sleep 0315 to 1115 (8 hours)

• I did a bunch of transcriptions overnight with MacWhisper. Then today I tried a small batch and it went up to 18 GB RAM used and macOS started freezing applications and popped up a window saying it was out of application memory and chose applications to force quit. Recovered from that and tried again and once again 18+ GB memory used. Rebooted and now MacWhisper seems to be working ok, about 10 GB memory in use because I'm using a large model.
• Oops. Ran out of HD space. Turns out MacWhisper's ExternalMedia folder is 259 GB. mp3 and m4a files I guess the extracted audio from the videos I was transcribing.
• Ok. Figured it out. MacWhisper copies the original file to ExternalMedia (so files of 1 GB to 4 GB in size) then creates an m4a mono audio and uses that for the transcription. And at the end it doesn't clean up ExternalMedia so it'll just keep taking up more and more space. Hopefully just a bug that will be fixed.