May. 22nd, 2022

mtbc: maze B (white-black)
I have plenty of eggs and thought it time to use some. After all, if I skip this morning's granola, I can postpone opening the new milk for another day, so I instead planned omelette on toast. One thing that didn't initially occur to me was that I usually add a splash of milk when beating the eggs. Instead of that, I added a splash of salsa, which worked nicely. This knowledge isn't much helpful seeing as I am leaving the country soon but I have found myself rather liking the Kroger traditional salsa so I am happy to find excuses to use it. I also have some slices of pepper jack in the refrigerator so I placed one within the omelette when folding it over in serving.

With everything else going on in my life right now, recently I have saved myself some time by eating food that is less healthful but more convenient, though I still typically fast. I am pleasantly surprised to see my weight still drifting downward, mostly reversing my gains during past visits to Europe and Asia. I have been somewhat careful, e.g., I put said three-egg omelette atop one piece of toast rather than two, but I don't feel that I have earned my current luck in weighing 141lb this morning. We shall see if it holds. My exercise options were reduced when they stopped requiring masks in the gym at work.
mtbc: maze I (white-red)
A few months ago, I was having trouble with my old laptop's power/charging, it was more than time to buy myself a new computer, so I replaced it, hoping for better reliability. Now, I have plenty going on, with moving house and job, sorting out immigration aspects, etc. For various reasons, a lot of my personal computing happens on my laptop computer, not in the cloud.

Yesterday evening, it therefore seemed awkward timing for me to notice the charge level on my plugged-in laptop dropping. Switching power supply, it kept dropping. No amount of wiggling connectors or whatever would persuade it to charge. The same chargers worked fine with my work laptop. I even tried different power outlets. I quickly rsync'd various configuration, etc. off my laptop. On powering it off, it was strange to note that, even when unplugged, the power light on the side remained lit.

My laptop's the only personal Linux machine that I have in the house, mostly I run NetBSD. To easily set up similar configuration, this morning I fired up a virtual container at a hosting provider using their stock Debian image, copied files over to it, then got the most critical functionality up and running. In the meantime, my laptop is now working fine. I daren't wholly migrate back to it quite yet but, really, huh? Could it have gotten itself into some confused state that survives powering down but is cleared by actually running out of charge?

Either way, right now it's so nice to have my usual environment back in my hands. Maybe I ought to have been wrapping it all in apptainer or podman or somesuch all along.
mtbc: maze B (white-black)
It is interesting to organize one's day around the incoming text messages about house viewings. For example, I had thawed a Cornish pasty for lunch, I put it in a 300°F oven to bake during one viewing, then turned it up to 400°F and had time to eat it and hide the evidence before the next. (I also burned a couple of odor-eliminating candles in the vicinity.) Naturally, the pasty required egg wash so I ended up opening the milk anyway.

One facet of the organization is what to do when out of the house. Today's chores included getting gas for the car, a little grocery shopping, returning my Xfinity streaming box, and getting my Tdap booster, not bad for a Sunday afternoon.

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