🗓 Microcosm - 2025 Jan 1-8
🎂 JAN 08 2025 20:57
Fun birthday night for my youngest daughter today. Hard to believe we're only a couple of years away from all of our kids being in double digits.
☃️ JAN 08 2025 10:05
Forgot to mention it snowed a couple of inches overnight, wasn't expecting to have to shovel the driveway this morning, but didn't mind.
🏀 JAN 08 2025 07:48
The ownside of going to a high school basketball game last night is the coaching segment of my brain is firing when I'm in the middle of some IT training today.
🍏 JAN 07 2025 11:29
Heh, turns out I'm eligible for three months of Apple TV+ because of some purchase or other. I'll sign up in a week or so right before Severance season 2 debuts.
🍏⚙️ JAN 06 2025 20:43
Got my 2009 MacPro to Monterey yesterday and finishing up the 12.7.6 upgrade now. I'll probably go for Sonoma eventually, but I'd like to clean things up and get further organized first.
🏀 JAN 06 2025 20:32
Trying to figure out which GSL games are north side convenient in the final 10 games of the regular season.
🌐 JAN 06 2025 19:36
Teams doesn't seem to want to update with my new avatar very quickly even though everywhere else in the Office 365 updated pretty quickly.
🤔 JAN 06 2025 07:42
Taking a Windows management training course for work this week. It's completely remote and cloud-based so I'm doing it from home. So much pleasanter than having to travel to a computer lab in a distant city.
🍏⚙️ JAN 06 2025 01:21
Solution was to use my OCLP on my iMac to rewrite the efi partition on the installer. Had to do a similar thing with my iMac at one point during an upgrade.
🍏⚙️ JAN 06 2025 01:17
Upgrading macOS on my MacPro via OCLP proving to be a frought process so far. Sonoma hung after getting to 18 minutes remaining. Monterey almost worked, but somehow trashed the efi boot configuration so that no external or in process updates showed up to allow completion of setup.
📺 JAN 04 2025 13:29
Took advantage of the free Apple TV+ to binge some Silo season 2. Will probably start on Slow Horse season 4 as well. Then wait and renew in a couple of weeks once Severance season 2 begins.
☃️ JAN 04 2025 08:35
Snowed a bit more overnight so time to go shovel the driveway.
🧙♂ JAN 04 2025 08:34
Saw Mythic Mike had put out a video for a pretty decent budget Blue White Flyers deck this morning and played it to Gold 3 after watching his video.
🍏⚙️ JAN 03 2025 21:20
Successfully flashed and installed the GT 630 in the Power Mac and booted up with no issues. Just need to pick up a cheap USB 2.0 hub at Best Buy tomorrow so I can install Sonoma.
🍏⚙️ JAN 03 2025 17:10
Metal compatible video card I ordered for my old PowerMac arrived today. Need to flash the bios and pick up a USB 2 hub at Best Buy and then I can do the Open Core upgrade.
⚙️ JAN 03 2025 15:17
It turns out that unlike Safari, Orion does support emoji favicons fine so unclear why I thought that it didn't.
🌐 JAN 03 2025 13:35
I've done it now. Orion seems to have its own set of implementation quirks with favicons and is refusing to show the simple 32 x 32 png I uploaded to my Bear blog.
🌐 JAN 03 2025 09:50
Tired of all my preferred browsers not supporting emoji favicons so thinking about making some custom ones.
🧙♂ JAN 03 2025 09:08
Had an awesome ranked match with Boros tokens to get to Gold this morning with Mono-Black Skeleton/Demons. Had to play around four Elspeth's Smites, but the Demon drain card advantage plan eventually won out.
📺 JAN 03 2025 00:08
Wow! Pluto episode 6 was a real gut punch. So many cool twists and reveals, but such a heavy show.
🏡 JAN 02 2025 23:04
Made significant progress on my office today. Lots of stuff to put in the garbage and recycling already with plenty more to sort through tomorrow.
🌐 JAN 02 2025 13:01
Orion having Chrome and Firefox extension support is a completely genius feature.
📺 JAN 02 2025 12:58
Finally started up Pluto again today after taking a long pause after episode 4. It's a good show, but kind of bleak with minimal humor. Lots of tension, twists, turns, and slow reveals. There's also some weirdly inexplicable stuff like Gesicht's car has flight capabilities, but he drives it normally when transporting the family he's protecting in episode 5.
☃️ JAN 02 2025 12:51
Snowing pretty good outside now. One of my daughters asked for a new sled for Christmas so glad she's been able to use it a little bit this week.
🌈 JAN 02 2025 10:09
Thinking about random color names like Mauve and Chartreuse this morning.
🏡 JAN 01 2025 22:04
Made real progress on my desk and office cleanup today, but still have a long way to go.
🌐 JAN 01 2025 21:45
I really like Orion's sidebar tabs with sub-tabs that you can collapse and expand. If there's any keyboard navigation available for the browser sidebar and tabs it's not very obvious though.
🍏 JAN 01 2025 15:46
The logical option for the missing drive sled is to just get an OWC one that supports a 2.5" drive. They're about $15 on Amazon, although I don't currently need one anyway.
🏡 JAN 01 2025 15:36
Today my office cleanup is a real one step forward two steps back situation. I did manage to extract my MacPro, give it a thorough vacuuming, and test a couple random hard drives I had lying around. I was annoyed to discover I'm missing a drive bay mount.
☃️ JAN 01 2025 09:39
Snowing a little bit today to start the new year. We have coverage on the driveway, but it wasn't enough to be worth shoveling since it was barely a cm and still coming down. I'll check again shortly.
⚙️ JAN 01 2025 09:36
Heh, backed up my posts.db, but now that it's actually time to reset my database and start completely fresh for the new year as originally planned, it feels foolish to blow everything up without having tested things fully. So maybe next year. 🤷🏻♂️