Sat May 10 2026

Sleep 0415 to 1215 (8 hours)

• DDO. CSr, DW and I finished Vecna Unleashed except for the raid. We'll try that next week as it seems to be doable with a small party (i.e. you don't have to split up into multiple groups that then have to do things simultaneously).

Sun May 10 2026

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

• My MBP server seems to have stopped booting. I login and during that process it powers off (and spins up the fan quite high like for a split second before it powers off). Occasionally it would power off (with same fan behavior) which was a warning but I kept using it... Now I have to see if I can go back to my old Mac mini to run my server and that machine has its own problems (primarily macOS is so old that Homebrew is not supported though you can still use it but all updates require compilation on the Mac mini so it's quite slow to update).

Mon May 11 2026

Sleep 0045 to 0900 (8-1/4 hours)

• Got a haircut. Then Jeffrey's for a bacon burger with cheese, garlic fries, oreo milkshake for $33 with tip. Looks like last time I bought stuff there was Jan 2023. Might have gone there with Christopher and he paid because three years seems like too long a time in my memory.

Tue May 12 2026

Sleep 0100 to 0945 (8-3/4 hours)

• card.apple.com now has a section for Apple Savings so you can download your monthly statements, which I was commenting early this month you couldn't do.
• MBP Intel: tried erasing HD and reinstalling macOS via Recovery tool but that failed and now there is no OS installed. Will have to go back to my Mac mini and hopefully recover the wiki from my Time Machine backups.
• Mac mini: Homebrew couldn't install node@24 so instead uninstalled homebrew and installing MacPorts.
• Mac mini: MacPorts also failed to compile node@24. Sigh. For now will set it up on my main MBP.

Wed May 13 2026

Sleep 2345 to 0515, 1230 to 1400 (7 hours)

• Since MacPorts covers some fairly old macOS versions each port has a details page with a Port Health section listing which macOS versions built the port successfully. Looks like they use automated builders for testing rather than relying on user reports. nodejs24 fails on Monterey while nodejs22 works so I'll install that version.
• One nice thing about MacPorts is that they have binaries for these old OSes so stuff installs fast.

Thu May 14 2026

Sleep 0030 to 1000 (9-1/2 hours)

• Eye exam. First time in about two years so maybe an extra test. Also got progressive glasses. $1080 including 20% discount. Compared to $380 when I had insurance. VSP is like $30+ per month so I guess it's worth enrolling if I'm planning on buying glasses at my optometrist. You do have to enroll for an entire year so I guess I'll wait until May 2027 or so.

Fri May 15 2026

Sleep 0500 to 1200 (7 hours)

• DDO. We tried the Vecna Unleashed raid, Fire Over Morgrave. Probably need two active healers because everyone is taking Evil damage over time. As long as that damage doesn't keep increasing then having two PCs attacking the big bad might work eventually. Also the more PCs near the big bad the less spawns so you probably do need a raid's worth of PCs (12).