Sunday, April 23, 2023

Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted shredded coconut, toasted slivered almonds, diced half banana; hot water. We had had plans today to have Kerry and Mom Ryan over for lunch today, but those plans were canceled. Early lunch with Patrick at home: onion bagel sandwiches with butter leaf lettuce, cheddar, cream cheese, egg. Water to drink. I sat outside for part of the day because it was sunny and barely warm enough but then it got cooler so I returned inside. Encountered inconsistent volume levels with our Apple HomePod and HomePod mini playing Katy Perry's E.T. I could not resolve the problem. The problem happened with the Sound Check feature on or off in Home settings. All answers on the web seem to say use Sound Check or submit feedback to the HomePod team and wait until the next firmware or software update. While troubleshooting permission problems with both Patrick and me editing the same document on his computer, I found that with Marcel Bresink's TinkerTool I can set macOS screenshots to be created in JPG by default rather than PNG. To do this, you choose JPEG-JFIF. It uses a JPG filename extension (desired) rather than JFIF (undesired). A computer restart was not required. We watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s5:e4 on Amazon Prime Video with Martha Stewart's Movie-Theater-Style Popcorn and Patrick made a cherry vanilla soda from extracts and the Sodastream. Housecleaning. Made simple syrup with vodka. Cocktails: old fashioneds. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover ravioli from last night. Patrick also made some garlic bread. Patrick washed dishes then went to bed. I joined him to cuddle. He awoke unexpectedly a few hours later. I awoke shortly afterwards. After a while he returned to bed. I returned to bed a while later.