Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Ran in place to various John Mulaney videos on YouTube. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, roasted and unsalted slivered almonds, cacao nibs, diced half banana; water. Worked from home. Troubleshot problems with a Time Machine drive failing to mount properly. A few days ago it had begun asking me for a password when previously it would connect without asking for a password. First Aid revealed it "was found to be corrupt and cannot be repaired." The drive is a WD 2TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive HDD, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 Compatible, Black - WDBYVG0020BBK-WESN that has been in service for less than 5 months. I successfully removed the disk from my Time Machine config, successfully erased it (APFS Encrypted), successfully reran First Aid to reveal no problems, then successfully readded it to the Time Machine config. Followup with Sushil about Listserv failing to respond to a command to show members of a sub-list. Siteimprove linkchecking and policy work. Reported site outages and ssl cert problems to Brian S. Followup with Staffbase problem report about font-weight: undefined. They are incompetent and don't know what they are doing. Afternoon snack: unsalted, unroasted cashews; seaweed snack; water. Accidentally attended WIT Career Development Workshop with Alesia Woods because I signed up for it without knowing that WIT stood for Women in Tech. No matter; all genders were welcome. Posted edits for a QBI event for Carolina L. Helped Marissa L with changing content owners for some pages. Updated Michael D's person page following a role change. Followup with Julia S about merchandise guidelines for students. Mocked up changes to the Dean's Office page for Eric, sent them to him for review/approval. Pre-dinner snack: tortilla chips, water. Dinner at home with Patrick: delivery from SRBC via DoorDash: chicken burger and fries for Patrick, pan-seared tilapia with vegetables for me. Food amazingly arrived in about 20 minutes and was delicious. Patrick washed the few dishes. We watched YouTube including Moonlighting s03e07 Atomic Shakespeare via Silvio SHC and part of Ep. #322: John Mulaney via Kreative Kontrol and Nick Kroll & John Mulaney's Opening Monologue at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards via Film Independent. Patrick went to bed. Installed macOS Monterey 12.6.2 on my work laptop. Late snack: grated pizza blend cheese on toasted ciabatta slices with dried oregano and dried parsley, water.