Thursday, December 28, 2023
Vacation day. Medium bowl of oatmeal with milk, flax meal, cacao nibs, toasted slivered almonds, toasted shaved coconut, diced banana, golden raisins; hot water. Rode Muni to UCSF Parnassus not to work but to give Patrick space at home. Troubleshot problems with email delivery, spent over an hour on chat with the web hosting provider. They said there was a problem with my domain's MX record and they made a change to correct it, but I suspect this is not going to resolve the problem and possibly make things worse. Less than two hours later sure enough mail was neither receiving nor sending, so I undid the support engineer's change and it was back to the previous state. I also made a change to my DKIM configuration to make it less strict. Lunch from Ladle and Leaf: salmon salad, chicken noodle soup, side of sourdough bread. Rode Muni to Cole Hardware in Cole Valley to buy lamp sockets. There I encountered Susie L and met her sister Sally. Susie and I chatted briefly and did some catching up. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: kicked-up frozen pizza, water, red wine. Patrick washed dishes while I repaired the first of two Crate & Barrel salon lamps purchased in 2000. This was the first time I used the Pinecil. I needed to tin the wires during the lamp repair. The repair took 45 minutes and was successful. We watched What If…? s2:e2 on Disney+. I walked in place while we watched. Patrick went to bed. Backups and updates for home devices and websites, including uninstalling and clean reinstalling homebrew on Patrick's MacBook Pro which was recently upgraded to macOS Sonoma. Tested using the speakers connected to Patrick's Mac as an AirPlay destination. It works!