Wed Nov 15 09:06:31 EST 2017 Slept from around midnight to seven. Woke briefly around two. High of forty-six today. Rain after eleven. Went to see Blade Runner 2049 last night. Loved it. I like it as least as well as the original. Work: - Follow up on Yardi check scanning Done. - Review invoices Done. - Work on MECS Done. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Quite rainy. The backs of my pant legs are soaked. Stayed late to move a VM and update Exchange. Home: - Work on blogs Done. - Go to bed not late Eh, 10:30 PM. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/11/13/the-kindness-of-strangers-seven-tales-of-totally-unexpected-benevolence-from-our-readers/ Started to set up the new NUC. Discovered that the issue causing fatal stops on boot in OpenBSD and Linux wasn't a hardware problem. It looks like a change introduced in BIOS AY0041.bio introduced the problem. ... Huh, it can boot with the v41 firmware, if I reset the it factory defaults; I suspect the issue is triggered by my having turned the video memory setting to their minimums. Lunch: coffee, Thai noodles Dinner: turkey sandwich, jalapeno chips