2022/11/05

Saturday, November 5, 2022 (#309)

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Today is a housework day. I generally try to pay the bills by the 5th, so that's looking like today's top task.

Other things I could try to get to:

• check on Z's phone to see if the number transferred or what (before the transfer PIN expires, which I think is early next week)
• set up Coastal Credit Union account for Z (for a limited time, we can supposedly get $200 if I "refer" him)
• blow leaves out of (most of) the gutter by the upstairs window
  • not sure how much point there is in keeping up with this, since it's already rusted through and I'm not keeping up with the others
• try again to run the TootCat upgrade script; document what happens
• continue working on Mel's room
• work on cutting up the pine log some more (low priority)
• probably other tasks I've dissociated from; will add them as they come to me

A.M.

9:50

Bills paid except for BofA, where the billing cycle begins on the 5th or 6th (typically) so I pay it closer to the middle of the month. Explanation: It's very sneaky: payments are due on the 2nd -- but the billing cycle doesn't begin until several days later... so if you pay anything too soon (right after the previous due date), it somehow doesn't count towards your next-due minimum (and it's too late to count towards the previous one). This makes it easy to be "late" even if you are paying as soon as possible. (Ask me how I know.)

Emoji picker not working at all, today. I wanted to insert a check emoji to check things off the list... and MediaWiki's only emoji extension is just a limited set of emoticons, where it replaces ASCII-style (like ":-)") with emoji, which is exactly not what I want.

Seems like the "special characters" drop-down ought to be able to access the emoji character page, but I'm not finding it.