Thursday, November 18, 2021
Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, sliced dried plums; water to drink. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus. Today I shared the office with Dean Joe, whom I hadn't seen in person in over a year. It was good to see him, and it's always a pleasure to be in his company. UFD prep and send all day. Test sends were received as expected at EOA but not to other accounts. Realized that DKIM was not yet configured. Attempted DKIM config but after following the CM instructions I found the existing credentials failing. Turns out our credentials were changed after our first account was successfully configured, so the error messages were correct. I put in the new credentials and the delivery problem went away. Then I encountered a pay-as-you-go credits problem. CM doesn't notice that you have insufficient credits in your account—it just wants you to pay for the whole campaign rather than just the difference you need to send. I manually calculated the difference, made the separate purchase, and the delivery was successful. Or so we thought. Turns out we missed an allowlist step because IT had never clarified this part of the process. Followup will continue tomorrow. For lunch today I ate at Perilla: vietnamese hot coffee, rare beef with brisket pho, water. I stopped for a few groceries at 828 Irving Market. The cashier accidentally charged me $10 more than my bill. I showed him the transaction receipt on my phone, and he gave me the overcharge back in cash with an apology and an excuse: trying to do too many things at once. I hope it was unintentional and did not give him grief. Rode Muni home. Today Patrick made chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons, egg yolk brioche, a mendiant, and chocolate-covered almonds. Dinner at home with Patrick: chicken and mushroom rigatoni, water. Afterwards we each ate one macaroon and watched Foundation s1:e10 season finale. Mind exploded.