Thursday, December 4, 2025
Breakfast: one fried egg with chives and two pork link sausages in pita, hot water. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website: more blog post work, including minor edits to a few pages on the live site. Met Mario from Precision Rooter and Drain who arrived 20 minutes early for our hydrojet appointment. We were successfully and luckily able to reserve parking spaces on the street using the traffic cone method with no sign. Installed new dots door mats at both indoor entrances and at the inside of the sliding glass doors. Resolved problems with my mail filters; I had set some settings that were incorrect. Mario and Ray spent about two hours clearing drains, and they seemed to do a good job. Our drains appeared to have grout or concrete in the pipe, possibly from grout work for the balcony and patio tiling, and they were unable to clear that part which he said needed to be chiseled and removed. Lunch: leftover tofu and vegetable stir-fry, hot water. Nap. Patrick and I had a meeting with our wealth manager. Afterwards we were exhausted, so we walked to dinner at Castro Indian: chai for both. We shared onion naan, vegetable pakora, butter chicken masala, aloo gobi (cauliflower and potato), basmati rice. $78.26 after tax and before tip. Walked home. We watched YouTube. Patrick went to bed. Continued working on the Recharge Medical dev website in a good-vibe-coder state of mind: added readingtime plugin; added the readingtime output to my twig template; added Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations to the plugin's languages.yaml file; dropped seconds from the default output and used ChatGPT to write twig code to round up to minutes while also handling multiple languages and correctly accounting for singular (1 minute) versus plural (2 or more minutes); shortened a lot of slugs for Vietnamese and Spanish that I hadn't realized until now were much longer than I'd like. While working my breadcrumb icons disappeared. I thought at first it was something I edited and accidentally removed. I backtracked but could not figure it out. I restored one file from backup but that did not fix it. I ended up realizing that kit.fontawesome.com was down, even if only temporarily. So I used ChatGPT to build in some redundancy in case this happens again in the future. Made a snapshot backup. Tweaked home network backups config because I realized it wasn't backing up a critical folder. Not sure why, but it's fixed now. To bed late.