Other than governor I'm choosing the statewide candidates based on what's in the Voter Information Guide found at Secretary of State web site.

Lieutenant Governor: Fiona Ma (D) - currently CA Treasurer

Secretary of State: Shirley N Weber (D) - incumbent

Controller: Malia M Cohen (D) - incumbent

Treasurer: Eleni Kounalakis (D) - currently Lieutenant Governor

Attorney General: Marjorie Mikels (Green) - attorney/justice advocate

Insurance Commissioner: Jane Kim (D) - currently member of SF Board of Supervisors

State Board of Equalization, District 2: Sally J Lieber (D) - incumbent

Superintendent of Public Instruction: Sonja Shaw - school district president

Finally finished playing all the Apple Arcade games of 2023 (2024 and 2025 have way less games I guess since by then the library is fairly well built up). Nine good games which equals 2021 (2019 has 2, 2020 has 0, 2022 has 4). My favorite three:

Slay the Spire+ - A good card-based fantasy rogue-like where you can play one of four distinctly different characters.

Episode XOXO - I love the goofy romance semi-choose-your-own-adventure stories. Haven't played this much lately as I've been playing the Netflix version which has different (and for the most part spicier) stories.

Very Little Nightmares+ - Cutesy puzzle game with a bit of thriller/horror. For the most part not hard puzzles and not that long a game.

All these are available as normal apps: Slay the Spire ($10), Episode - Choose Your Story (free but rather expensive in-apps if you want to finish one story with the best choices), Very Little Nightmares ($7).

Sat May 02 2026

Sleep 0245 to 0800, 0815 to 1200 (9 hours)

• DDO: CSr is camping so just DW and I for two nights. We did Legendary Slice of Life on Friday and xxx.

Sun May 03 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Every month I go to my iPhone to get my Apple Card and Apple Savings statements and then send them to my MBP so I can store them. This month I thought can't I get them on my Mac? You can go to https://card.apple.com and download your Apple Card statements but I don't see a way to get Apple Savings statements so guess I'll have to keep using my iPhone.
• Miami Grand Prix. Franco Colapinto at 7th (+6 points = 7), Oliver Bearman at 11th (+0 points = 17). 24 total points is barely 5th place.

Mon May 04 2026

Sleep 0245 to 1145 (9 hours)

• I started getting tired of Notes math results (where if you have an equation and then an = sign it'll calculate and insert the result). Used to be results came faster than you can type. Now they come in a second or two slow so I've already typed past and then it tries to insert a result. I found a support note (Solve math in Notes on Mac) and turns out you can turn it off in Notes > Format > Math Results but as you have probably already seen since it is in the Format menu it's a per Note setting (and if you select multiple Notes that is not a setting you can change). Oh well, at least I can turn it off in my TODO note where it occurs the most.

Tue May 05 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1100 (7 hours)

• Got charged for Alien 7-Film Collection (bought 10 days ago) and Viki monthly (which would be charged today). So I guess the rule is if you buy something from a store Apple won't charge for 10 days hoping you'll buy something else then it can charge both and save on the credit card charge. I remember this being a thing when iTunes Music purchases were about the only thing you could buy and a $1 song would have a fairly high credit card fee if charged individually.

Wed May 06 2026

Sleep 0345 to 1200 (8-1/4 hours)

• C3+S Dinner. Deliver from Joy Sushi. CJr had us do a couple of Mad Libs and he also wanted to play a game but I was tired and it was getting late for him. Maybe I should do a different night since Wed CJr has Jiu-Jitsu and he gets back at 1900.

Thu May 07 2026

Sleep 0245 to 0945 (7 hours)

• I finally caught up and listened to the last episode of The Sackhoff Show podcast. Starting this year the show pivoted to a BSG rewatch/react show and I think the episodes are only on Patreon.

Fri May 08 2026

Sleep 0000 to 0800 (8 hours)

• Since I was up early today went to Safeway and they had 8-piece fried chicken for $5.

The second debate, on Apr 28 2026, had the same six candidates as the first and adding two more:

Tony Thurmond (D) - California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Antonio Villaraigosa (D) - former Mayor of Los Angeles.

Unfortunately 8 candidates is too many and they were resorting to quick YES/NO questions or asking a question to four candidates and then a variation to the other four. And sometimes people would get skipped. I think Thurmond and Villaraigosa along with Chad Bianco were skipped the most.

Final point totals

• Tom Steyer (7 points)
• Katie Porter (6)
• Matt Mahan (6)
• Steve Hilton (4)
• Antonio Villaraigosa (4)
• Xavier Becerra (4)
• Tony Thurmond (3)
• Chad Bianco (-1)

My notes in PDF: 2026-04-28 CA gubernatorial debate.pdf

I watched the first debate on Apr 22 2026 which had six candidates. I did not know them previously -- maybe heard Katie Porter and Xavier Becerra from previous elections. The candidates and my thoughts after watching the debate.

Steve Hilton (R) - political commentator. Kind of (just a bit) reminds me of Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy (because I just read a book about the Ukraine's presidents) who was a tv entertainer tending towards political humor and was initially a fairly bad president because of his political inexperience and it took an invasion to rally his government.

Chad Bianco (R) - sheriff of Riverside. Comes off as the typical rural Californian. I particularly dislike the argument that you can magically make more money appear by cutting fraud and abuse in government. Politicians say it, it's never done, and it becomes a code word for "cut government programs I don't like".

Tom Steyer (D) - billionaire. Surprisingly came in second and he had a lot of good answers. But the dude is 68 years old and after Biden and Trump I'm not sure I'm up for having an aged head of state government.

Katie Porter (D) - US Representative. Rather vague answering questions. Other candidates would say one or two plans of action and she didn't have any.

Xavier Becerra (D) - former US Secretary of Health and Human Services. I guess the most politically experienced of the group as he kept saying it over and over. For state governor I'd rather have someone with too much experience than no experience.

Matt Mahan (D) - Mayor of San Jose. Well spoken and had a lot of good replies though maybe too much "this is how we fixed it in San Jose" which might work for the 12th biggest city in the US but might not work at the state level.

I took notes and scored based on best = 3 points, 2nd best = 1 (or if two best then both = 2), 3 to 5 = 0, 6th = -1 (or 0 if it's about the same as 3-5).

My notes in PDF: 2026-04-22 CA gubernatorial debate

Final rankings

1. Matt Mahan (12 points)
2. Tom Steyer (11)
3. Xavier Becerra (5)
4. Katie Porter (4)
5. Steve Hilton (1)
6. Chad Bianco (0)

That was a lot of work and there are two more debates to do. Not sure I'll do them.

Sat Apr 25 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• DDO: A couple more Vecna adventures that went faster.

Sun Apr 26 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• Apple has a pending charge for D.E.B.S on Apr 29 (I bought it Apr 16). Alien 7-Film Collection is on sale for $30 which is the lowest price they ever set it at according to Cheap Charts, although I guess all the movies are on steep discount right now as I'm only saving an additional $5. There is a question if Apple will change the pending charge and combine the two purchases so this is also a bit of a test.

Mon Apr 27 2026

Sleep 0400 to 1200 (8 hours)

• The building next door is tented for termite fumigation. I guess makes me worried a bit about our building since my confidence in Pacific Coast Termite is not that high. Not that they can't do the job once termites are found or reported but that their inspections are rather brief and I think nowadays they depend on customers reporting termite activity.

Tue Apr 28 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1200 (8-1/2 hours)

• I started watching Running Point on Netflix and it's pretty funny, but when Netflix said their ad-tier plan has less commercials than you'd expect that's because they all run on this show. It's like 1-1/2 minute ads three times in a half-hour dramedy never mind the amount of money Sephora paid to be on the show as a major sponsor to the fictional basketball team with subplots revolving around them.

Wed Apr 29 2026

Sleep 0500 to 1215 (7-1/4 hours)

• C3 dinner.

Thu Apr 30 2026

Sleep 0045 to 0730, 30m nap (7-1/4 hours)

• I think I found Viki's auto play setting. It's not in the user settings. When you are playing a video go to options and there is Auto play there. At least for the one episode I turned it on for it worked. What a weird place to put the setting.

Fri May 01 2026

Sleep 0045 to 0845, 30m nap (8-1/2 hours)

• Dr Fari Barzegar from Habitat Engineering and Forensics came today to examine our garage. Older gentleman and friendly, shared an egg salad sandwich with me and explained some of the things he found. I don't think he found anything really major though he'll recommend some more testing. Some miscommunication as he was expecting a retainer check here (and later I found out it was at Manor office). I ended up giving him $1900 cash and I'll get it back from the HOA later.

The Complete Terry Moore Comic Bundle I guess is a repeat so maybe I dismissed it last time. $16 bundle for:


Comic Series

• Strangers in Paradise v1 to v19 (1994-2007) - Collects a lot of stuff.
• Echo v1 to v6 (2008-2011) - collects the complete 30-issue series. Woman gets super-powers via an alien(?) silver metal that covers her body.
• Rachel Rising v1 to v7 (2012-2016) - The whole 42-issue series. "Rachel Beck wakes in a shallow grave and claws her way free as a mysterious woman watches from a bluff. With no memory of the night before, Rachel enlists the help of Aunt Johnny, the town mortician, to find her killer."
• SIP Kids (2015) 4-issue series. "Strangers In Paradise fans rejoice! This fun series follows the all-new adventures of Katchoo and Francine, aged six!"
• Motor Girl v1 and v2 (2017) - issues 1-10 of the 10-issue series. "When a UFO crashes into her desert junkyard, Samantha and her imaginary gorilla friend, Mike, repair the ship and win the heart of the little green pilot named Bik."
• Strangers in Paradise XXV v1 and v2 (2018-2019) - 10-issue series
• Five Years v1 and v2 (2019) - issues 1-8 of a 10-issue series. "Five Years is the series from Eisner Award winner Terry Moore that brings all the characters in the Terryverse together for an epic story and high stakes adventure!"
• Serial v1 and v2 (2021-2022) - 10-issue series. "Zoe, the precocious serial killer from Rachel Rising, returns in her own series!"
• Parker Girls v1 (Dead Quiet) and v2 (Deadlight) (2023) - "An accountant for billionaire Zackary May embezzles $10 million dollars and loses it to a Parker Girl, setting off a chain of events that have Tambi and her team investigating murder and international espionage."
• Trigger Warning: A Strangers in Paradise Story (2024) - one-shot
• Fear of Death: A Rachel Rising Story (2026) - one-shot

Comic Graphic Novels

• Ever: The Way Out (2020) - graphic novel about a girl running from a fallen angel that wants to sacrifice her.

Art Books

• Hot Girls Cold Feet (2011) - "From dancing doodles to perfect pencils, here is a peek into the sexy world of one the comic industry's most revered artists."
• Terry Moore 25th Anniversary Sketchbook (2017)
• Terry Moore's 2021 Sketchbook (2021) "108 pages of beautiful sketches!"
• Terry Moore's 2022 Sketchbook (2022) - "Collecting the very best of Terry Moore's sketches over the last year, the 2022 Sketchbook contains 120 pages of gorgeous pinups featuring the women from his books Strangers In Paradise, Motor Girl, Rachel Rising, and more."
• Terry Moore...after dark (2023) "It features a stunning 120 pages of good girl art showcasing Francine & Katchoo from Strangers in Paradise as well as the expanded cast of this beloved, Eisner-winning series."
• Terry Moore Covers (2024) "Terry Moore COVERS collects over two hundred seventy five covers spanning Terry’s thirty plus years in comics!"
• The Really Complete Paradise To (2024) "This is a 360 page book filled with comic strips, cartoons, single panel cartoons, character designs and endless story ideas, many of which ended up in the comic book series Moore later produced."

Other Books

• Terry Moore's How to Draw 2026 (2026) - "The new 192 page Terry Moore's How to Draw 2026 is updated, expanded and chock full of great information you can use to take your art to the next level. Detailed chapters offer advice on body language, expressions, comedy, beauty and more. And two brand new chapters have been added!"

I guess in the end his works are outside my genres of 4-color supers or science fiction.

I asked Dad where we used to live in Lima. I think he said Barranco (I also remember San Isidro which is where I think grandma and great grandma lived; today my cousins live in Miraflores). He said the brothers had a chicken farm with 1M chickens but had to sell the farm when the government set chicken prices at a price that a small farm like theirs couldn't sell for a profit (and even the black market with the various bribes and such was about break-even). This was back in the late 1970's.

With no job prospects (I guess economy was bad at the time hence government fixing prices) that's why we moved to USA. Dad used the money from selling his part of the chicken farm (at a loss) and sold his house (again at a loss -- I guess the huge nice house I remember where one of the carpenters cut his hand open on a bench electric saw).

I guess we were not illegal immigrants (possibly used a tourist visa for 6 months) because we got a business visa which is why my parents opened a Chinese restaurant. They made enough money to buy a house with a nice school nearby (which my sister and I walked to along with a lot of other kids) and a middle school about 10 minute bike ride or 30 minute walk away. Uncle Martin (my Dad's half brother in New York) submitted application forms for naturalization which we got eventually.

After seven years the restaurant was making a profit but mom didn't want to invest in improvements and more help and dad was tired of 10-hour work days 6 days a week so they sold the restaurant for $50k. Mom took that chance to go back to university to get her CPA (2 years) and then an internship at State of California government since we are officially Hispanic. Dad went to work for Sacramento County (as I remember).

Sat Apr 18 2026

Sleep 0330 to 0900, 30m nap, 1h nap (7 hours)

* Drove to parents. Stopped for 10 minutes to !play MSLA racing at 1100. Dave made me steamed fish and white rice for lunch. C3 and Steph arrived about 1630. Went with Dad and CSr to replace my Sky River Casino card so that dad can play on Wednesdays ($10 free credit for seniors). Three different dishes for dinner (Lunar New Year style).
* DDO (CSr, DW and I) Last night we started Vecna Unleashed, first two quests. Tonight we did the third quest and finished part 1 (part 2 is six quests). Also did one of the side quests, which are shorter than main quests.

Sun Apr 19 2026

Sleep 0145 to 0945 (8 hours)

• Drove back home with lots of food. Mom gave me five big bags of Starbucks ground coffee which will last for months.

Mon Apr 20 2026

Sleep 0145 to 1100 (9-1/4 hours)

• Dentist for cleaning. It was raining on and off, mostly on. One accident on the 680/24 which slowed me down for 10 minutes so I was a little late. On the way back drove through San Francisco. One stall which slowed me down though I happened to be on a lane adjacent. All in all almost 4 hours.

Tue Apr 21 2026

Sleep 0230 to 1045 (8-1/4 hours)

• Tuesday morning and I can't find last Friday Night Baseball games in search. Are they removed after a couple of games. Since there is no Friday Night Baseball page it's so hard to find previous games... Ok. I did search (e.g. "Tigers at Red Sox") then hit return (usually I rely automatic search results) and then can find the game (mind you it does say "Apr 17" but no year so I wonder how you'll determine the right game if home team+away team+month+day happen to match. But you have to know the teams because "Friday Night Baseball" search does not return old games.

Wed Apr 22 2026

Sleep 0330 to 1145.

• C3 Dinner. Delivery from Shiki Laurelwood. Pork ramen and sushi were both ok not great.

Thu Apr 23 2026

Sleep 0130 to 0930 (8 hours)

• HOA Meeting. We hired an engineering company to examine the crack in our courtyard. The unit in foreclosure contacted us but we need to have our lawyer contact them but he's called and they haven't answered their phone. I'm afraid they'll try a payment plan and then only pay once or twice and go silent again, which I believe they did before with our collections agency.

Fri Apr 24 2026

Sleep 0545 to 1300 (7-1/4 hours)

• DDO: CSr and I did a couple of MW5 scenarios. Then when DW joined we did Legendary The Bark and the Blade at R5 and that took over an hour because you do all this stuff and think it's done but nope that was about half the adventure.

Humble Bundle for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG is $20 for

MUH052162 Dune: Core Rulebook Standard Edition (2021) [OWN]
MUH052168 Gamemaster's Toolkit (2021) - with GM screen [OWN]
MUH052174 Wormsign Quickstart (2021) [OWN]
MUH052175 Agents of Dune Box Set (2022) - camapign [OWN]
MUH052176 Sand and Dust: The Arrakis Sourcebook (2021) [OWN]
MUH052392 Masters of Dune (2022) - campaign continuation from Agents of Dune [OWN]
MUH060190 The Great Game: Houses of the Landsraad (2023) [OWN]
MUH060195 Power and Pawns: The Emperors Court (2023) [OWN]
MUH060203 Fall of the Imperium (2024) - 4-adventure campaign

These five adventures are included in Desert Planet: Adventure Compendium Vol 1 (2023) which has additional material.

MUH052215 Desertfall (2021) [OWN]
MUH052400 Time Becomes a Narrow Door (2021) [OWN]
MUH060197 Desert Flower (2022) [OWN]
MUH060198 Coriolis Storn (2023) [OWN]
MUH060200 Shaitan's Bargain (2023) [OWN]

Two more adventures which I expect will make it into a print product later.

MUH060196 Kernels of Doubt (2023) [OWN]
MUH060169 Fatal Journey (2023) [OWN]

Looks like I bought all these in a previous Humble Bundle back in Mar 2024. This time it only adds Fall of the Imperium ($28 retail) and I guess $20 would be a discount but it seems like a waste of my previous purchase. Didn't see anything on rpg.net about the line ending so I guess I'll wait for the next bundle.