Sat Aug 15 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Unsubscribed to another 3 Next Door mailing lists. I guess I found where these are coming from, Settings > Notification Settings. Go through each category setting New Posts to disabled. I note everything was still enabled so apparently clicking an email unsubscribe link wasn't doing anything even though the page you go to says you've been unsubscribed from this specific list. Apparently I was also subscribed to 27 local public agencies that I had to disable one by one. Overall probably about subscriptions I disabled individually. Crazy.

Sun Aug 16 2026

Sleep 0315 to 0900, 1245 to 1515 (8-1/4 hours)

• Reading about SMART support on macOS. Two SMART utilities say that macOS does not support SMART on external drives so you have to install OS X SAT SMART Driver, free open source. CleverFiles does not recommend for macOS 11+ because SAT SMART Driver has not been updated in years.
• From BinaryBruit's FAQ page, with SAT SMART Driver installed macOS won't load it on startup hence my external SSD won't be connected on startup. I need to connect a drive after macOS reboot so that macOS will load the kext. Don't think I want that behavior. But I guess I can install on my Mac mini if I want to read SMART data of my external HDs.

Mon Aug 17 2026

Sleep 0115 to 1045 (9-1/2 hours)

• Engineer and contractors here today to do testing. I got called for a couple of things then hung around helping for six hours. When I got back I was tired and maybe a bit dehydrated/overheated since it was a somewhat sunny day. More tomorrow.

Tue Aug 18 2026

Sleep 2300 to 0730 (8-1/2 hours)

• Another six hours walking around helping the engineer do testing. Mostly watching him do testing and stepping in to move stuff or open doors or do a bit of grunt work.
• Yesterday I forgot to wear my Apple Watch. Today I wore it and got all three rings for once in a very long time. And the price is that my legs feel like jelly. Jelly on fire.

Wed Aug 19 2026

Sleep 0315 to 1045 (7-1/2 hours)

• With two of my 14TB hard drives having read/write errors QNAP refuses to use them. That leaves me with two 14 TB HDs so I'm going to have to rethink what I want to put on the RAID and how I'll configure the NAS.

Thu Aug 20 2026

Sleep 0200 to 1045 (8-3/4 hours)

• Trader Joe's. Forgot tortilla chips.

Fri Aug 21 2026

Sleep 0300 to 1100 (8 hours)

• Ars Magica: Definitive Edition arrived. That completes the BackerKit deliverables.