• Stayed up and went to Safeway at 08:00. Bought lots of groceries again. Hope I'm set for a month (mostly depends on how long milk lasts, I bought 3 half gallons Lactaid).

• The new SMCU UI updates your purchases faster than before. Now I'm confident about the count of debit card transactions I've done so far in the month (I need to do 10 per month). The count used to take a day or two to update after a purchase.

• Two all nighters this week. I think that will be it.
• HOA Meeting via Microsoft Teams. Zoom is easier to use.

• Trying to install DDO via Crossover. Not quite there...
• After some tries finally got DDO to launch and I can move my character a bit. Not sure voice chat works.

• Microsoft Teams. One board member had trouble getting Teams working.
• Elevator replacement project. Ronald Weis our consultant went over the plan and timeline.
• Homeowners comments. Mike: why hasn't there been any maintenance the last few months, Marciel: most vendors were not working due to COVID.
• Discussion on site inspection report and how often Chris (Manor) will inspect site.
• Tree limbs hitting homeowner's window when it's windy. We might trim out of cycle (usually done once a year).
• Car was stolen Jun 02 (but some question if homeowner was truthful or correct).
• Roof problems continue. Some sagging of roof.
• Spa work stalled getting specialty contractor involved.
• Termite inspections postponed to next year.
• Window washing this year?
• Pool stays closed this summer. BBQ and chairs?

• Slept so much.

• Not so much sleep today. Did 5 hours of work. FeelsGoodMan.

• Dental cleaning appointment. Wait outside until called in. Answer a COVID-19 questionnaire. Hygienist wears a mask. Transparent screen guard to protect receptionists.

• Noticed that my face mask rubber band is getting frayed. Ordered three masks from Etsy (PrettyStichinDesign).

• Christopher got Disney+ for a year. I will watch a few shows though my television watching time is kind of low these days.

• Face mask rubber band (right) snapped. I was able to staple it back with a couple of staples so it's fine now though both rubber bands are frayed and I expect there will be more breaks.

• DDO sessions doing Masterminds of Sharn has been pretty fun since I've never done these quests. Lots of building and urban environments with open areas that have lots of vertical space. Kind of strains the GPU but it's nice.

Game                                Price 1  Price 1  

Age of Wonders III                             7.50     Own
All You Can Eat                                0.50     Windows
Armello                                        8.00     Own
Baba Is You                         12.00             
Ball, The                                      2.50     Windows
BioShock Remastered                            5.00     Own
Broken Age                                     7.50     Own
Company of Heroes 2                            5.00     Own
Crowntakers                                    3.00     Own
Darkest Dungeon Shieldbreaker DLC              2.00     Don't Own Main
EarthNight                          10.00             
Eastside Hockey Manager                        5.00     Windows
Elite Dangerous                                7.50     Windows
Endless Space - Collection                    10.00    Own
Football Manager 2020               25.00             
FRAMED Collection                    4.00              
FTL                                            2.50     Own
Gonner                               2.00              
Gunscape                             0.00              
Hyper Light Drifter                  8.00              
In Between                           3.00              
Jackbox Party Pack 4                15.00             
Kerbal Space Program                10.00                             
Kingdom Classic                                0.50     Own
Knights of Pen and Paper 2           2.00              
MirrorMoon EP                        1.50              
My Memory of Us                                4.50     Windows
NBA 2K20                                       9.00     Windows
Neo Cab                              9.00              
New Beginning - Final Cut, A         1.00              
Newt One                             3.50              
No Time to Explain Remastered        5.00              
>observer_                           7.50              
Overgrowth                           9.90              
Overlord II                          2.50              
Pesterquest                          8.00              
Planet of the Eyes                   2.00              
Plunge                               5.00              
Realpolitiks                         5.00              
Regular Human Basketball             1.00              
Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing                  2.50     Windows
Spelunky                                       2.25     Own/Win
StarCrossed                          8.00              
Super Time Force Ultra                         3.00     Own
Surviving Mars                      10.20             
System Shock 2                                 2.50     Own
System Shock: Enhanced Edition                 2.50     Windows
This War of Mine                               5.00     Own
Titan Quest Anniversary Edition                5.00     Windows
Vertiginous Golf                     2.00              

Total                              172.10    102.75    

• Since I was up all night I went to Safeway at 06:00 and bought groceries. Some shoppers but mostly empty so was chill.

• Bought Bundle of Holding - Fate of the Norns which is a Viking RPG set during Ragnarok. Thinking of running Dungeon Fantasy RPG + Nordlond Sagas setting so more Viking source material and adventures is good.

• Working all night last night kind of messed me up today.

• A second night of work and little sleep.

• I feel my faith was rewarded. After four months Neeko was playing chess on stream. She stayed in Just Chatting category, which cuts down on the regular back-seating/toxic-to-low-rated-players chess audience.

• Yet Another All Nighter.
• Got KFC, they forgot my fries. And then when I took out the box of chicken tenders it exploded, spilling tenders all over the floor. FeelsBadMan.

• Next week need to stop working nights. Messes me up.

• I turned off Chrome > Use hardware acceleration when available and I think that solves it enough for me to go back to two monitors. I guess Chrome will be slower.
• Firefox also has hardware acceleration and I turned it off. I use FF less so doesn't matter as much.

• After a day with two monitors things are slow again. I'll reboot and see how long that helps... Not really, stills slow.
• I think next idea is a clean re-install and I guess try latest macOS while I'm at it.

• A good night of working. But it messes up my sleep.

• Not much work done today.

• MBP 2020
• macOS Catalina 10.15.5
• Crossover Mac 19.0.2
• ddolive.exe

• https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/510661-Catalina-and-Codeweavers-PSA
• https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/forum/dungeons-and-dragons-online?msg=224367

1. Launch Crossover
2. Click "Install a Windows Application"
3. (There might be a warning to update Crossover, do so.)
4. Application name = Dungeons & Dragons Online
5. Click Continue
6. Choose ddolive.exe
7. If given the choice choose Windows XP bottle (should be automatic)
8. Click Install
9. During install sub-installers and license windows will launch. Say ok/yes.
10. DDO Installer: choose Express
11. Unselect "Launch DDO" and click Finish
12. Back to Crossover installer. Click Done.
13. Launch DDO from Crossover
14. "DDO would like to access files in your Documents folder". Click OK.
15. DDO starts download updates. At this point add DDO app permissions.
• Open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab, unlock controls
• Go to ~/Applications/Crossover/StandingStoneGames
• Drag DDO app to Accessibility, make sure app is enabled
• (Can't drag into Microphone, will have to wait for DDO to request access)
16. During update DDO may get an error "An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly." Click OK. In DDO you may also see "Failed to load patchclient (Cannot load library patchclient: DLL initialization failed).
• Quit DDO installer (click X)
• CrossOver > DDO bottle > Control Panels > Wine Configuration.
• In Library tab edit msvcr80 to Builtin then Native. Click OK.
• Restart DDO app.
17. DDO update continues. If it errors, quit and relaunch DDO. Might have to do this several times until update finally goes through. Sometimes waiting a couple of hours before another try seems to help.
18. First time you login to a server it'll play the intro animatics. I've read that you want to change your monitor resolution to 720p or DDO will crash. I'd already used the server so didn't experience this.
19. First time you login to a server DDO wants access to key presses and microphone. The screen might go black as it goes to full screen mode and the macOS dialogs are hidden. We did accessibility in step 15 but for microphone you will need to mouse over the the menu and hopefully a menu item to pop you back to macOS and show the dialog.
20. That should do it. Game plays well at max resolution on my MBP 2020. I've had an instance where text chat doesn't work but later it worked when I restarted. Voice chat I haven't been able to get working so we use Discord.

• Text chat usually doesn't work do I do get system messages.
• Voice chat out usually doesn't work so can't hear the other players. I think audio and text chat are the same subsystem (like a third party library).
• Voice chat in doesn't work. DDO requested mic access and I gave it but it still doesn't get mic audio.
• Sometimes the app freezes. It might come out in 30 seconds or not even after a couple of minutes. I reduced graphic settings from max to medium and then to low (there is also an ultra low setting) and it seems to help. I keep Object Draw distance at ultra high.
• Friends list doesn't display. Mostly useful to see which characters are online.