Wednesday 12/18/2024
First thing, I tossed all the laundry, one week’s worth, into a single big load and started it washing. Took the standard walk while that ran. Put it to dry and fiddled around. Anyway, now I have all the clothes I need to pack for next week.
I pulled out the Dell laptop I bought a while back to make sure it was working. Its battery was flat of course. I plan to take that on the trip instead of my Macbook. But I ran into a problem: it insisted my admin password was not what I was sure it should be. I have used the same login/admin password on every machine I’ve owned for 20+ years. But apparently I didn’t on this one? So I looked up how to do a password reset (you boot into safe mode and you can get a root window, and do a password reset.) When I tried to reset to my standard password it wouldn’t accept it because it wasn’t 8 characters. Oh! Clearly that’s what happened — when I set the machine up, I must have added an eighth letter to the familiar password to meet that requirement. I even know what the added letter probably was. Damn passwords.
At 4 I opened a zoom meeting for the AV team. We had decided to meet by zoom this time because Bert was ill. Except he must be really ill, or out to the doctor, because he didn’t join. Anyway I presented a slide show reviewing how to put a presenter’s laptop on the auditorium screen without a zoom meeting. Main thing, we got events in the January calendar covered.
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