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Thu Nov 4 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from ten to five. Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds up to 5 mph increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Work ---------------------------------------- - ✓ complete registration of profile in Dayforce (??) - ✓ registration and New Hire Open Enrollment in Dayforce (health insurance) - transfer .net name registration to Amazon (or to a different Namecheap account?) No. - sign up for a RentCentral account No. - ✓ think about what to do about internal domain name, DNS - export more mailboxes No. - change backup media? No, the job's still running. - ✓ new MS 365 for critical it stuff? Dayforce, the Lightstone HR system, says Meir Sivak's name is actually Igor Sivak. His boss is Seth Molod. "Your Colleagues" (all in Lakewood, New Jersey, apparently): - Abraham Eisen, Project Manager - IT - Shoshana Goldberg, Information Technology - MRI Administrator - Rosemary Leonard, Information Technology - Administrator - Chaya Retter, Information Technology - Report Writer Benefits enrollment took forever. At least it looks like the health insurance (Empire BCBS PPO) covers my doctor (Peter A. Lipson). Information about 401k is forthcoming, apparently. Ha, the benefits enrollment lets you select ethnicity as a list, and you can start and end dates for each of you ethnicities. Hour-long walk at lunch. Mostly cloudy and cool. Home ---------------------------------------- No adverse effects from my COVID vaccine booster. My arm is barely sore. Washed a load of laundry. Gave myself a haircut. https://beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com/2016/09/blog-dirt-cheap-sandbox.html > If I were to build a new dirt cheap sandbox, I’d focus on the following ingredients: > - An overland map detailing the mini-setting where the action takes place, with a lot of geographic variety, natural barriers and more/less convenient routes through the wilderness to encourage interesting in-game choices. > - A few rival power centres, from small city states to villages and strongholds, described in a few handwritten pages each with a focus on how to get into trouble or go on adventures. > - A few straightforward adventure locations; maybe two or three small dungeons and a bunch of smaller ruins and lairs scattered on the map. Have a bunch of one-page dungeons that fit your tastes? This is one good opportunity to use them. > - A few organisations who can get involved – religious sects, mercantile guilds, even a rival adventuring party or two. > - Rumours to guide the action and give the players ideas, as well as a few larger-scale legends which can become central mysteries, to be uncovered gradually. > - Your favourite game procedures and optional rules to make adventuring in your setting a constant challenge. Worked on D&D stuff for the first time in a while — the start of a new hex crawl. ssh://paulgorman.org/~/repo/dnd/2021hexcrawl Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 4/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Lunch: banana, two hot dogs, cucumber, coffee Dinner: potato chips, carrots, pizza

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