Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Breakfast at home: apple-blueberry granola with diced green apple and milk. Walked and rode Muni to UCSF Laurel Heights. Another day waiting for my laptop to be reimaged by Thanh H at IT. Continued and finished rereading Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information. Read half of his Visual Explanations. Met with Susie about the Alumni Weekend afternoon program Keynote presentation. Today I received an unsolicited phone call from 303-771-0723. My phone display said Littleton, Colorado (CO). I did not answer and presume it was a spammer. Lunch: an orange. Afternoon snack: microwave popcorn. Errand: Cal-Mart for a few groceries. Walked and rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: Yan-Kit's stir-fried beef with mango and steamed rice, Hint pineapple. Dessert: leftover 4-layer cake with vanilla ice cream, amarena cherry, sliced almonds. I also had Bailey's on ice. Began discarding unused boxes in the garage in order to make more space. House chores. Tried using a new feature of OS Mojave and iOS 12 called Continuity Camera for the first time but both of the options (take photo, scan) were grayed out. I tried some troubleshooting steps but failed to resolve the problem after a few minutes. As a workaround I used Airdrop, which I was surprised to see worked as expected. Did some iCloud storage maintenance. Have to remember that after logging in with Apple ID to a new device I need to immediately turn off iCloud Photos and iCloud Backup which both turn on by default yet I don't want them on. With our Sonic fiber connection things upload very quickly and the storage on iCloud runs out of space. Maybe a good strategy is to turn off wifi before or after signing in. Or, don't sign in to iCloud when on wifi.