August 2020
Summary: COVID-19 shelter in place continues. I pack my office at Laurel Heights. We receive a new range and oven at home. Area wildfires begin and air quality drops to unhealthful.
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Sat Aug 1, 2020
Ran in place to Walking tour of The High Line in Manhattan, New York City 【4K】 via Wind Walk Travel Videos ʬ on YouTube. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced mango. Candle maintenance. Lunch at home: leftover risotto, rice with chicken broth and sauteed mushrooms and bok choy with garlic; water. Vacuumed. Set up a new Wen cordless rotary tool to replace a Dremel that I had had for decades. Afternoon nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: one Beyond Burger each with mild cheddar and French fries and ketchup, water. I washed dishes. Afterwards we watched a little more than half of Tootsie on Netflix instant watch. Patrick went to bed. Late dessert: one lemon-poppyseed Boulder cookie, warm milk.
Sun Aug 2, 2020
Troubleshot network issues with the Roku TV but didn't do anything that made an improvement. Ran in place to part of Glee s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana, diced mango, diced white nectarine; water. Finished watching Glee. The episode brought tears to my eyes during the scene near the end in the faculty lunch room with the laptop. Lunch at home: leftover coconut rice with scrambled egg strips and sauteed bok choy, water. I continued a redesign of the Recharge Medical website in Drupal 8. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Perilla via Uber Eats: we both had vermicelli noodles with nuoc chom, greens, bean sprouts, and imperial rolls. Patrick's had roast chicken. Mine had sliced beef. We shared an order of garlic noodles with shrimp. Everything was delicious. No problems with the order or delivery. Patrick washed dishes and went to bed.
Mon Aug 3, 2020
Ran in place watching part of Miss Representation on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced peach; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. OneDrive sync problem followup. Followup with wysiwyg slowness and other performance issues. Met with Grant, Levi, and Eric to discuss photography strategy during a pandemic. Edited an event for Carolina L. Reported a problem with the Communicators website to the identity team. Followup with PC intranet project. Researched Zoom backgrounds and photography tips. Lunch at home: leftover garlic noodles from Perilla, side of bok choy and broccoli, water. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Updated the curriculum chart again for Cindy. Weeded web editors from pharm. Notified site owners, editors, and stakeholders of a recent problem that was resolved (wysiwyg and other slowness). PC Intranet build. Photo guide build. Followup with Brand Comm on guidance for obtaining consent releases remotely. Responded to a problem report from Julia M about the BioI faculty page. Dinner at home with Patrick: beer-braised pork and root vegetables stew, water. Finished watching Tootsie on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. I washed dishes. Patrick went to bed. Continued troubleshooting OneDrive sync problems. Updates and backups for home devices.
Tue Aug 4, 2020
Ran in place watching more of Miss Representation on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. OneDrive sync problem followup. White Coat page meeting with Eric and Anne. Followup with owner of unavailable websites. Siteimprove: other fixes. More OneDrive followup. Some small updates to BioI for Julia M. 1:1 with Eric. PC Intranet build. D8 sprint start with Eric and James: James created a new themes repo. Posted a QBI event for Carolina L. Followup with Marissa about web editing. Dinner at home with Patrick: burgers and vegetarian fries from Calibur via Uber Eats, water. Patrick had swiss, mushrooms, and carmelized onions. I had blue cheese. Patrick had a chocolate shake. I washed the cardboard packaging dishes. No issues with the food or delivery. Calibur has been very reliable for us. Lots of file organization in OneDrive and SharePoint. Troubleshot problems printing to the laser printer for Patrick. Patrick went to bed. Troubleshot problems with duplicate mount point and connecting to a shared drive over the network. It was resolved with a restart and a removal of a dupe mount point and another restart. Installed more updates for home devices. We were horrified today by an ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut.
Wed Aug 5, 2020
Ran in place watching the remainder of Miss Representation and part of Salt Fat Acid Heat s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana; half cup of hot coffee with milk; water. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. Read CSS Layout News 262. Began D8 styling setup for the theme called laurel. Lunch at home: leftover pork stew, water. Met with Eric to see if we could confidently identify and remove subscribers in our Mailchimp database that did not engage with our messages, but it turned out to be a waste of about 80 minutes because we couldn't build a segment that made sense. Afternoon snack: cherries. Dinner at home with Patrick: farfalle with shrimp, peas, bacon in a cream sauce, water. Cocktails: mezcal margaritas. TGWNN Zoom chat. We each washed some dishes. Patrick went to bed, and I napped beside him. I woke later and did the remainder of the dishes. Troubleshot and resolved problematic SMTP credentials in Apple Mail on one computer.
Thu Aug 6, 2020
Ran in place watching the remainder of Salt Fat Acid Heat s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries, diced peach; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. Resolved broken SharePoint links on our identity microsite. Edited the photography guide. Helped Grant with his first pandemic photo shoot with the dean and edited some of the resulting shots. Edited the white coat page draft for Eric. More image editing from the BJG shoot. Followup prep with Marissa and Charly about a request for the People page to make the alumni link more prominent. D8 styling work and prep for building custom layout builder layouts. Dinner at home with Patrick: I prepared for us broccolini and bell pepper quesadillas with mexican cheeses, diced tomato, mixed greens; side of refried beans; water. Patrick washed dishes. Watched two episodes of old Twilight Zone on Netflix instant watch with Patrick. Afterwards I troubleshot connection problems with our Roku TV, not sure if I fixed it or not. All I did was power off the Roku TV and our router, then powered on the router, waited several minutes for it to start, then powered on the Roku TV. Troubleshot duplicate mount point problem again. Shower. Late snack: root beer float popsicle.
Fri Aug 7, 2020
Ran in place watching part of Michelle Obama: Becoming on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries, diced banana; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. D8 layout builder work all day. Lunch: leftover bowties, water. Edited a news story for Levi. Resolved a request from Marissa and Charly for Craik Lab. D8 sprint recap meeting on Zoom with Eric and James. UCSF town hall on Zoom. Dinner at home with Patrick: falafel and cucumber tomato salad in pita, water. Afterwards we watched Amazing Stories s1:e1 on Apple TV+, for which I recently initiated our free one-year trial, $4.99 per month afterwards. Troubleshot problems with the MacBook Air. "Error: 8000000000000003, Cannot load 'EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi', Status: 0x00000003" and from "MacBook Pro 2013 - cannot load Apple Hardware Test" on iFixit it seems unfixable so I gave up this line of questioning. PRAM reset seemed to succeed (I got the second chime) but it didn't seem to do any good nor did I need to reset any settings. SMC reset: not clear if it took so I did it twice and it didn't seem to do any good nor did I need to reset any settings. Built an AHT on a USB drive. When I tried to boot from it after holding Option while starting, it scrolled by too quickly. I repeated while taking a video. The video revealed the same error I saw earlier: "Error: 8000000000000003, Cannot load 'EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi', Status: 0x00000003". Ran all maintenance tasks in Onyx. Late snack: cherries.
Sat Aug 8, 2020
Ran in place watching part of Michelle Obama: Becoming on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries, diced banana; hot coffee with milk; water. Long nap. Lunch: leftover bowties, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Old Mandarin via Uber Eats: sauteed string bean and dry fried tofu, beijing chives pie, combo fried rice, lemon chicken. Dessert: pineapple upside-down cake. For me only: a small serving of cherry and almond liqueurs. Afterwards we watched Amazing Stories s1:e2 on Apple TV+. Late snack: cherries. Recaulked portions of the tub; the application a few weeks ago did not hold.
Sun Aug 9, 2020
Ran in place watching part of Michelle Obama: Becoming then part of History 101 s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries, diced banana; half cup of hot coffee with milk; water. Did some organizing in the garage, gathering things to get rid of. Cut my hair, showered. Cleaned the tub. Late lunch: leftovers from last night, water with a squeeze of lemon. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: duck-and-pork sausage and chicken thighs cassoulet with corn and mozzarella biscuits, water. Afterwards we watched Amazing Stories s1:e3 on Apple TV+. Finished watching History 101 s1:e1 then watched What Did Jack Do? then Bird Box on Netflix instant watch.
Mon Aug 10, 2020
Ran in place watching part of The World's Greatest Fair (1904 St. Louis) on Amazon Prime Video. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. Organized files following OneDrive and Teams/SharePoint sync problem resolution. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. HR mailing list update. Lunch at home: leftover Chinese food, water. D8 theming work. Dinner at home with Patrick: champagne, celery, and mushroom risotto; water. I washed dishes. Afterwards we played Donut County on my iPad Pro. It's a very silly game with moments of hilarity and perhaps too much chat. Patrick went to bed. Continued watching The World's Greatest Fair (1904 St. Louis) on Amazon Prime Video. Late snack: one whole grain tamari and seaweed rice cake, unsalted pistachios, salted cashews, seaweed, water.
Tue Aug 11, 2020
Ran in place watching the remainder of The World's Greatest Fair (1904 St. Louis) on Amazon Prime Video. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced nectarine; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. Followup with owners and admins of newly unavailable websites. Patrick and I rented a nearby car to run errands. He dropped me at UCSF Laurel Heights so that I could pack my office for our team's forthcoming move to Mission Bay. I took with me extra packing supplies just in case. I brought three pieces of art, a framed certificate, and an empty box home. Afterwards we got lunch to go from Rigolo: one lemonade, one turkey sandwich with fries for me, one black bean veggie burger with fries for Patrick. Drove home. Ate lunch. Unpacked the car and stored art. Posted two events for Carolina L for QBI. Read CSS Layout News 263.
Wed Aug 12, 2020
Ran in place watching part of 100 Humans s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced nectarine; half cup of coffee with milk. Worked from home. Siteimprove linkchecking. Sprint standup. Continued and finished HR import. Continued D8 styling work. Began editing the UFD for Grant. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a bean and cheese burrito. Patrick and I played two rounds of Donut County on my iPad Pro. Our landlord arrived with workers to deliver and install a new range since ours had not been working correctly for some time. Web editor training with Paul D, Terry C, and Ruben P from CPCS: updated /about and added a PDF to the Antidotes page. Finished editing the UFD. Attended the Death of a Learner webinar. Dinner at home with Patrick: 4-cheese tortellini with pesto and summer vegetables, water. Zoom chat with The Group With No Name. Patrick and I played more of Donut County while we waited for others to join. Patrick went to bed. Dessert for me: cherries. I played Shadowmatic on my iPad Pro. Walked in place to Containment s1:e1 on Netflix instant watch. Late mini meal: leftover risotto, water. Dessert: one Altoid mint.
Thu Aug 13, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e2 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blueberries, diced banana; one third cup of hot coffee with milk; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Followup with Charly, Marissa, and Greg C about an old server closure. Departing employee activity: Ellie V. Siteimprove linkchecking and policy work. White Coat invitation list build work and followup with Eric and Jon. Followup on PC server sunset. Minor edits for Nicole F for Biophysics. Followup with IT about tinyurl changes. Continuing the Conversation Zoom meeting wherein we all got bounced multiple times so it was decided we should reschedule. The first time I had ever experienced Zoom being completely unreliable. D8 styling work: finally got my head around no longer having a max-width for the page and wrapped more around Every Layout axioms, particularly when I found that multiple body columns can be reliably responsive. Also the sidebar layout needs to have a fixed measurement like 30ch for the sidebar rather than a percentage like 33%. Helped the team with the UFD publish and html email announcement in Mailchimp. Today was the first warm and sunny day in what feels like six weeks. I worked for a short time outside in the back yard after lunching outside: ramen in veggie and chicken broth with sliced zucchini, squash, and carrots with egg, seaweed, and parsley. Dinner at home with Patrick: veal schnitzel with German cucumber salad, water. Dessert for me only: two Altoid mints, two coconut-lime-macadamia-nut cookies, Firelit (Weavers) on the rocks. Afterwards we read from dead tree edition books. Patrick washed dishes. Then we watched Amazing Stories s1:e4 on Apple TV+. Patrick went to bed.
Fri Aug 14, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e3 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana, diced peach; half cup of hot coffee with milk; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. Followup with Marissa about other web problem reports—I cannot reproduce. White Coat mailing list and html email build all day. Some web edits for Mandy and Thomas for Residencies. Very warm weather today, even warmer than yesterday and a bit muggy. I worked outside in the back yard for part of the time and for lunch: black forest ham, provolone, mixed greens, honey mustard, and mayo on toasted whole wheat bread; side of leftover cucumber salad; water. Dessert: one strawberry lemonade popsicle. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Park Gyros via Uber Eats: appetizer combo plate, chicken kebab plate for Patrick, chicken gyro wrap for me, baklava with pistachio. We had also ordered a yogurt drink, but the app told us a minute or so after ordering that they were sold out of it, so we easily removed it from the order. I washed dishes. Patrick went to bed.
Sat Aug 15, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e4 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, diced banana; water; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a black forest ham and provolone sandwich with dill, mayo, and honey mustard; water. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick had oatmeal. I had farfalle with leftover cassoulet. Water for both. Dessert for me only: baklava left over from yesterday's dinner. Realized that the old MacBook Air media server had a bulging battery, so I took it and related components out of service. Reconfigured the old black-and-white Brother laser printer to connect to the network via ethernet rather than USB so that I could use the Time Capsule's USB port for the local non-Time-Machine backup hard drive. Tested printing from Patrick's computer and my computer—all is well. Reconfigured iDrive backups for both devices. Resolved duplicate mount point problem on Patrick's computer. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Research for technology solutions to replace the MacBook Air. Late meal: chicken and barley soup from a can, water.
Sun Aug 16, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e5 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blueberries, diced banana; water; half cup of iced coffee with milk. Spent the entire day evaluating and making decisions about how to resolve the dead MacBook Air. Lunch at home: leftover farfalle with leftover cassoulet, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: oven-baked rainbow trout with parmesan vegetables, water. Dessert for me only: one Good Pops oranges and cream popsicle. Late snack: cherries.
Mon Aug 17, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e6 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, blueberries, diced banana; water; half cup of iced coffee with milk. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Followup troubleshooting OneDrive and SharePoint sync issues. Reported a site down to its owner (WarnMe). Sent praise to Mandy M about her great photo shoots of masked residents on the Residencies website. Small web edit for Julia M on the Biophysics website: menu item removal. Lunch: leftover trout with buckwheat noodles and a side of corn off the cob, water. Mailing list cleanup. D8 theme work: layout builder templates build. Dinner at home with Patrick: mushroom, black bean, and cilantro rice burritos; water. Helped Patrick configure a new set of Skullcandy Indy Evo earbuds to work with either his MacBook Pro or our iPad Pro. It's Bluetooth, so of course it didn't pair properly the first couple of times for him or for me. Eventually I got it working, and I'm not sure how. Par for the course for Bluetooth, I'm afraid.
Tue Aug 18, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e7 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced peach, diced banana; water; half cup of hot coffee with milk. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking and policy work. Worked with Angela K to obtain a high-res version of Igor M's headshot photo. Read CSS Layout News 264. 1:1 with Eric. D8 theme work all day. Lunch at home: leftover beans with cilantro rice and leftover trout, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: I prepared crab cakes, remoulade sauce, warm half ciabatta roll, and a romaine, tomato, and cucumber salad with ranch dressing. Water to drink. Patrick washed dishes. Watched Amazing Stories s1:e5 on Apple TV+ on my iPad Pro hooked to our Roku TV with an HDMI Lightning adapter. Patrick went to bed. Late dessert: one strawberry lemonade popsicle.
Wed Aug 19, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e8 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, blueberries, diced white nectarine; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking and policy work. Recently I have been using my iPad Pro as a second display with my MacBook Pro using macOS Catalina's Sidecar feature. For the most part it works very well. The only problems I have found so far are that I cannot two-finger scroll on the iPad and if the connection remains for a very long time it will eventually get stuck meaning the iPad will fail to show the cursor as I move it onto the iPad. It's particularly odd when an iOS notification appears and I attempt to dismiss it using the MacBook Pro's trackpad—it doesn't work because the notification is coming in on top of the secondary screen layer and so it is separate. D8 theme work all day. Some PC intranet followup and build work. Lunch at home: I prepared for myself a tuna salad wrap including diced tomato, diced avocado, canned tuna, diced romaine lettuce, diced celery, mayo, ranch dressing; water. Switched from ActiveSync with Apple Mail app to Outlook on my iPhone X and iPad Pro. Completed the Household Pulse Survey from census.gov after confirming via the web that it was legit. Dinner at home: delivery from Old Mandarin via Uber Eats: flour ball with shrimp, snow pea chicken, beef stir fry with green onion, egg fried rice, pot stickers. When the order arrived, we found three small egg rolls included for free. Dessert: Patrick made a German chocolate cake today so that he could mix bits of it in a German chocolate cake no-churn ice cream. Half of the two-layer cake was left over, so we ate slices of it. Cocktail for me only: Kahlua with milk on the rocks. Showed Patrick the fun end credits for Donut County. Patrick washed some dishes while I played Shadowmatic on my iPad Pro. I washed some dishes. Patrick went to bed. Today we turned our Blue Pure 411 air purifiers (aka air filters) on the high setting due to falling ash and the smell of heavy smoke caused by area wildfires. Normally we use the medium setting. (We probably should have done this a day or two ago.)
Thu Aug 20, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e9 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, diced banana, diced pear; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. D8 theme work all day. Lunch: leftovers from last night. Dinner at home with Patrick: tofu cashew curry over steamed white rice, water. Dessert for me only: Patrick's German chocolate cake chocolate ice cream. (He had had some earlier in the day.) Delicious! Zoom chat with some from The Group With No Name. I washed dishes. Patrick went to bed.
Fri Aug 21, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e10 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: oatmeal with milk, pumpkin pie spice, diced banana, diced pear; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Siteimprove linkchecking. OneDrive and SharePoint sync troubleshooting all day. Followup with Nicole F about title changes. PC Intranet staging work. Followup with old Craik Lab site redirects. Dinner at home with Patrick: mushroom bolognese over spaghetti with a warm half ciabatta roll, water. Watched Magic for Humans s1:e2 on Netflix instant watch with Patrick.
Sat Aug 22, 2020
Slept in. Showered then returned to bed. Lunch at home: oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, diced banana, diced mango; water. Rested most of today. Snack with Patrick: pretzel sticks. Patrick and I watched Where'd You Go, Bernadette on Netflix DVD. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick had Chinese food leftovers. I had spaghetti bolognese leftovers. Late snack: plain yogurt. Today we installed a third Blue Pure 411 air filter. This one went into the small bedroom. We gave another new one to Sam for his place.
Sun Aug 23, 2020
Small meals throughout the day: morning: plain yogurt with chopped roasted almonds, pretzel sticks, steamed white rice with roasted chicken broth. Walked in place to Containment s1:e11 on Netflix instant watch. Buttermilk bread toast with butter. Maruchan chicken ramen. Nap. Dinner at home with Patrick: baked coated chicken, potato salad, water. Afterwards we watched two episodes of Magic for Humans. Patrick went to bed. I washed dishes. Late snack: plain yogurt.
Mon Aug 24, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e12 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: yogurt, cherries, water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. D8 sprint meeting. Handled a letterhead request for Jeff G. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Met with Anne: Siteimprove linkchecking. Lunch: I had Chinese food leftovers with water. Walked to the mailbox and back. Yogurt with diced half nectarine with water. D8 prep. D7 styling work: resolve minor table cell padding problem for web editors. Buttermilk bread toast with butter. Google Analytics prep for PC Intranet. More OneDrive and SharePoint sync troubleshooting. D8 config sync work with James. Steamed white rice with roasted chicken broth. Dinner at home with Patrick: veggie enchiladas, water. I washed dishes. Patrick had a spoonful of the German chocolate cake ice cream he recently made. Afterwards we watched trailers on some trailer channel on Roku, then we watched Janeane Garafolo: If I May on Amazon Prime on Roku. The video froze at about 8 minutes in. I got it going again by hitting Back twice and then resuming. The video froze again at about 30 minutes in. Patrick went to bed. Made a new employee ID card for Drew for the clinic. Late small meal: steamed white rice with roasted chicken broth, leftover baked chicken, water.
Tue Aug 25, 2020
Ran in place to Containment s1:e13 on Netflix instant watch. Breakfast at home: yogurt, blueberries, water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. D7 styling work all day: print styles in calpoison. 1:1 with Eric. UCSF (town hall?): Hawgood and Pelosi in conversation. Early lunch: leftover chinese food with steamed white rice, water. PC Intranet staged and ready for review. Yogurt with diced nectarine, water. D8 sprint meeting: file and image support. A few cashews, a seaweed rice cake, cherries. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftovers. I had Chinese food with steamed white rice. Patrick had baked chicken with potato salad. Water for both, sparkling for Patrick. Resolved "Use graphics processor" greyed out in Photoshop by deleting the preferences file. Recharge Medical work: ID card for Calvin. I washed dishes. Dessert: Patrick's German chocolate cake ice cream. Finished watching Janeane Garafolo: If I May on Amazon Prime on Roku with Patrick. I used new AirPods Pro today for the first time. They paired instantly with my iPhone X and worked great. Later when I attempted to use them with my MacBook Pro either they wouldn't connect or I didn't know how I was supposed to connect them. When I tried again later reading the instructions Apple provided on the web, they worked fine. Late meal: Maruchan chicken ramen with mixed greens, water.
Wed Aug 26, 2020
Breakfast at home: yogurt with diced peach and diced banana; water. Ran in place to Home s1:e1 on Apple TV+. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Followup with Cheryl and team about PC Intranet staging. Altered the YouTube link for the Kidney Project website for Reanna S and Desiree K. Read CSS Layout News 265. Snack: potato salad. Lunch: leftover Chinese food, potato salad on a bed of arugula, leftover baked chicken, water. Snack: pistachios. Met with Calpoison team for web editor training. Delivered a photo to Jon and Cindy. Dinner at home with Patrick: spaghetti with leftover bolognese, warm half ciabatta roll, water. Dessert: Patrick had German chocolate cake, previously frozen. Began replaying Broken Age on my iPad Pro.
Thu Aug 27, 2020
Breakfast at home: yogurt with diced peach, water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. HTML email template work and RSS feed build all day: PC Quarterly News. D8 sprint work. Potato salad with arugula, water. Lunch: leftover enchiladas, water. Met with Eric and Diana K to discuss HR reporting. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon-zucchini risotto with pumpkin seeds topped with gratineed heirloom tomato, water. Zoom chat with The Group With No Name. Patrick received and set up his AirPods Pro and we briefly tested the sharing feature which worked after some trouble at first. Late dessert: one creamy orange push-up Goodpop popsicle. Listened to John Mulaney's New In Town (audio only) via Hoopla via SFPL.
Fri Aug 28, 2020
Ran in place while watching Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy e1: Inception and the Interpretation of Art on Kanopy and stopped 21 minutes in (as directed). Watched part of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood on Kanopy. Potato salad with arugula, water. HTML email template work: PC news. D7 styling work: again troubleshoot problems with Firefox printing long tables. Web editor training with Cheryl C. OneDrive and SharePoint sync troubleshooting with Eric and Microsoft all day. Lunch: leftover spaghetti, water. Afternoon snack: yogurt with blueberries. D8 sprint recap with Eric, Anne, and James. Completed pcard paperwork (nothing to do). Dinner at home with Patrick: shrimp po'boys, water. Dessert for me only: one creamy orange push-up Goodpop popsicle. Tweaked the home network to try to get faster speeds. Backed up then upgraded iOS devices. Continued playing Broken Age on my iPad Pro. Late mini meal: ramen with mixed greens.
Sat Aug 29, 2020
Ran in place to more of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood on Kanopy. Breakfast at home: small order of oatmeal with cinnamon and diced banana; water. I sealed a ceiling vent above our dining table with a gallon ziploc bag and painter's tape in an attempt to keep wildfire smoke out of our apartment. Patrick had smelled smoke one day in that area, and that was the only thing we could think of to cause it. The vent goes to the central heating unit in the garage, and the garage has been smelling strongly of smoke even with the garage door closed all the time. Lunch: Patrick had a veggie bagel sandwich and water. I had two small tacos made with leftover fried shrimp from last night's po'boys with diced avocado, salsa, mixed cheeses, shredded lettuce, sour cream; water. Long nap. Helped Patrick prepare dinner: asparagus cavatappi with heirloom tomatoes and arugula, water. I washed dishes. Rewatched part of Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Snacks: Patrick had tortilla chips. I had no-salt, no-oil popcorn and a bowl of cherries. Water for both. Patrick went to bed. I washed more dishes then continued playing Broken Age on my iPad Pro, finishing act 1. Upgraded Apple Reminders via my iPhone X.
Sun Aug 30, 2020
Ran in place to more of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood on Kanopy. Breakfast at home: small order of oatmeal with pumpkin pie spice and diced nectarine; water. Cleaned the bathroom. Cut my hair, showered. Lunch: small taco similar to yesterday with water. Patrick left to meet with Sam. Small meal: leftover risotto, water. Continued playing Broken Age on my iPad Pro. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from Perilla on Haight via Uber Eats: imperial rolls, satay five-spice chicken pho for me, five-spice chicken and vermicelli for Patrick. Patrick made a kind of thai iced tea using a hazelnut coffee substitute. Sealed the ceiling vent in our bedroom identically to yesterday. Finished rewatching Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker on Netflix DVD with Patrick.
Mon Aug 31, 2020
Upon awakening, I learned that Patrick had sealed half of our front door on the inside with painter's tape because he smelled wildfire smoke coming through. The door must not have fit its frame as well as we had thought. The back door did not have the same problem. Ran in place to the remainder of Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood then Daddy and the Muscle Academy, both on Kanopy. Breakfast at home: small order of oatmeal with cinnamon and blueberries; water. Worked from home. Sprint standup. Filed my timesheet. Followup with a new site build request from Nadav's team. D8 sprint meeting. RSS feed build for PC news. Linkcheck followup. Continued OneDrive and SharePoint sync troubleshooting. Lunch: leftovers from last night's soup. Afternoon snack: seaweed, sweet potato chips. Mailchimp setup for Pharmchem automated news test. Began restructuring D8 stylesheets along the lines of Harry Roberts’ ITCSS. Dinner at home with Patrick: Patrick prepared Yan-Kit's stir-fried fillet of beef with mango. Dessert: we shared a slice of Patrick's German chocolate cake, previously frozen. Rewatched 35 minutes of Inception with Patrick via iTunes purchase via Movies Anywhere on our Roku TV. Patrick went to bed. Our new Mac Mini arrived today, but I could not set it up because I need a keyboard. Patrick will borrow one from Sam tomorrow. Continued troubleshooting OneDrive sync problems.