Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Sprint standup by phone. Removed for Lucia an APC Back-UPS 500 VA and installed a Cyberpower CP1000AVRLCD. Lots of computer maintenance: PGP to DDPE transition, Office 2013 to Office 2016 upgrades, and more. Did a bunch of cable management. No lunch. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: hungarian goulash, water. Troubleshot problems with our internet connection. We thought at first that the problem was with sonic.net but I eliminated that possibility by connecting my iMac directly to the DSL modem, so I knew the problem had to lie with the T-Mobile Cellspot Router. I spent about two hours before I resolved it. Patrick had called sonic.net while I was at work and was unable to resolve it. I called T-Mobile after we ate dinner and was unable to resolve it (but it got me further along where I was later able to resolve it on my own.) It seems that either (a) when configuring you need to choose the 2.4 GHz instead of 5.0 GHz wireless (wifi) network—if you choose 5.0 it won't work for some reason, or (b) you need to remove wifi network configuration settings AND restart your device in order for the device to properly forget the settings. The woman I spoke with at T-Mobile didn't know what she was doing, but she helped enough. Dessert for each: two mini chocolate chip cookies from frozen dough, 8 ounces of whole milk. Late snack: rosemary ham and cheddar sandwich on sweet french roll with mayo, mustard, and lettuce; 10 ounces of carrot juice. Patrick unpacked our new Oster Versa blender today. It's huge compared to our previous one. We need to find a space for it.