(road trip, random, f&f)
Lessee: 4th of July: sat and poked at the internet. Not sure i can remember.... Probably some poking at Dad's email issue, then Dad called to wave off plans for the 5th to help him regain access to his email so he could assist his sweetie. Which was fine, as i had wanted to work then.
5th of July work went OK.
I did have a small panic over passkeys and FIDO keys and confusion about accessing my Google account. Apparently, i have a Google passkey on my personal Mac. I no longer have a second Apple product (as we are no longer allowed to use our own Apple account on our work machines) so i have two FIDO keys to act as second factor. Google asks me for my passkey as a second factor now, but i confused the passkey with the FIDO key and had a small panic when it wasn't on there. Once i figured out my confusion i tried getting a passkey on the FIDO key but Did Not Go. I assume i might have been able to make it work using Chrome, but what's the point in that. It also seems that my usual authenticator is no longer trusted by google, but i can root around in my phone's settings to find an authenticator there. Geeze Louise. I am very tempted to urge my Dad to get an account at one of my domains (or buy one for him) so i can ensure i know what is going on with his email account.
Saturday Christine went off to see her sisters, riding with D--'s from Carrboro to A-'s in Mount Airy. A is apparently showing some cognitive decline. I keep urging C to participate in some cognitive baseline test to help ease anxiety about the onset of Alzheimer's. Because i am so scatterbrained ... er, because ADHD, i've been taking a couple tests. Christine is indignant that one (https://www.aptwebstudy.org/) does not give an absolute score. It reports relative to your initial score. Apparently variations of ±10 points are common: i haven't varied by more than one over. This test https://afamemorytest.com/alzheimers-foundation-of-americas-memory-screening-test/ gives you a score but you have to keep track of the score and remembering to do the test.
So, when i get confused about passkeys i can't blame getting older. The security and identity management technologists get the blame.
Anyhow: i succeeded in getting some things done Saturday: i dehydrated a batch of mulberries and blended/fermented/baked the buckwheat bread for the next two weeks. Mostly i sat watching youtube videos about Lechuguilla Cave and and about extremophile microorganisms, kicked off by reading the NY Times story:
Jabr, Ferris. “The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet.” /The New York Times/, June 24, 2024, sec. Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobiology-microbes.html.
Sunday morning we celebrated Christine's sister D--'s birthday by visiting with bunny rabbits at https://www.breadboxfarm.com/ . The young rabbits were quite adorable and D's step daughter volunteers there (i guess a step niece?) so she was a well informed hostess. I asked the owner about colors, and discovered she's someone who had done color breeding for genetics research in school and was delighted to talk about the colors she was trying to breed.
I spent much of the rest of the Oh So VERY wet and muggy day -- and yay for rain, i hope the rest of the state got some -- making plans for a solitary road trip in a month. We'll see if i really go: a Friday evening in New Bern that happens to be the "Art Walk" night, an early morning at the coast to see the sun rise over the Atlantic (have not been to the Atlantic in a remarkably long time) and then a slow drive back stopping in Kinston and Selma to see different things. Blue highway tourism. Kinston was heavily damaged by Hurricane Floyd and there's a maze of overgrown roads where people were bought out of the flood plain by FEMA. At the edge of this area is a park that celebrates African American Music. And then in Selma there seems to be a thriving antique/thrift section of the little town, although the most interesting place is on the outskirts in an old cotton mill. Just poking at the internet and visiting virtually was very nice, but i think it would be good for me to do the road trip.
post-tags: road trip, random, f&f
5th of July work went OK.
I did have a small panic over passkeys and FIDO keys and confusion about accessing my Google account. Apparently, i have a Google passkey on my personal Mac. I no longer have a second Apple product (as we are no longer allowed to use our own Apple account on our work machines) so i have two FIDO keys to act as second factor. Google asks me for my passkey as a second factor now, but i confused the passkey with the FIDO key and had a small panic when it wasn't on there. Once i figured out my confusion i tried getting a passkey on the FIDO key but Did Not Go. I assume i might have been able to make it work using Chrome, but what's the point in that. It also seems that my usual authenticator is no longer trusted by google, but i can root around in my phone's settings to find an authenticator there. Geeze Louise. I am very tempted to urge my Dad to get an account at one of my domains (or buy one for him) so i can ensure i know what is going on with his email account.
Saturday Christine went off to see her sisters, riding with D--'s from Carrboro to A-'s in Mount Airy. A is apparently showing some cognitive decline. I keep urging C to participate in some cognitive baseline test to help ease anxiety about the onset of Alzheimer's. Because i am so scatterbrained ... er, because ADHD, i've been taking a couple tests. Christine is indignant that one (https://www.aptwebstudy.org/) does not give an absolute score. It reports relative to your initial score. Apparently variations of ±10 points are common: i haven't varied by more than one over. This test https://afamemorytest.com/alzheimers-foundation-of-americas-memory-screening-test/ gives you a score but you have to keep track of the score and remembering to do the test.
So, when i get confused about passkeys i can't blame getting older. The security and identity management technologists get the blame.
Anyhow: i succeeded in getting some things done Saturday: i dehydrated a batch of mulberries and blended/fermented/baked the buckwheat bread for the next two weeks. Mostly i sat watching youtube videos about Lechuguilla Cave and and about extremophile microorganisms, kicked off by reading the NY Times story:
Jabr, Ferris. “The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet.” /The New York Times/, June 24, 2024, sec. Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobiology-microbes.html.
Sunday morning we celebrated Christine's sister D--'s birthday by visiting with bunny rabbits at https://www.breadboxfarm.com/ . The young rabbits were quite adorable and D's step daughter volunteers there (i guess a step niece?) so she was a well informed hostess. I asked the owner about colors, and discovered she's someone who had done color breeding for genetics research in school and was delighted to talk about the colors she was trying to breed.
I spent much of the rest of the Oh So VERY wet and muggy day -- and yay for rain, i hope the rest of the state got some -- making plans for a solitary road trip in a month. We'll see if i really go: a Friday evening in New Bern that happens to be the "Art Walk" night, an early morning at the coast to see the sun rise over the Atlantic (have not been to the Atlantic in a remarkably long time) and then a slow drive back stopping in Kinston and Selma to see different things. Blue highway tourism. Kinston was heavily damaged by Hurricane Floyd and there's a maze of overgrown roads where people were bought out of the flood plain by FEMA. At the edge of this area is a park that celebrates African American Music. And then in Selma there seems to be a thriving antique/thrift section of the little town, although the most interesting place is on the outskirts in an old cotton mill. Just poking at the internet and visiting virtually was very nice, but i think it would be good for me to do the road trip.
post-tags: road trip, random, f&f