Well, here we are again. Been awake for an hour already, and pretty much just tossing and turning before that. I think it started with not sleeping Sunday night because I had a 6:00 a.m. flight out of Albany. Seems to take a while to get back into a rhythm.

Tonight's insomnia may be due, in part, to getting my flu shot yesterday. Fever and chills.

My doctor's appointment went smoothly. Blood was drawn, which should let me know how my kidney is doing. Blood pressure was ridiculously low, I suspect a bad reading, but they supposedly know what they're doing. Maybe I'm just healthy.

As "exams" go, it wasn't much. More like an interview. At Mayo, the residents give you a pretty thorough going over, making you get undressed and into a gown. She listened to my heart and lungs, pressing on my abdomen while seated, and that was it. Mostly just history. For specialist care, I asked for everything to be sent to Mayo, since they already have a file on me and I know the billing department. I guess I'll get a skin cancer screening there in the near future.

Yesterday was quite the day for technical glitches. Beginning with the "deadlock" avoidance.

I have quite a few lights set up with HomeKit, and none of them were working, nor my Eve power strip. Worked the night before, what the hell? Talk about "right to repair," how about "right to understand how all this stuff works."

I started out unplugging and plugging in the Lutron bridge. No change. The Lutron app on my phone saw the bridge and controlled all the lights just fine. Tried to use the motosync app on my phone, which had heretofore been a pretty handy little app. I'd set that up to identify nearly all the devices on our network, and I wanted to see what was connected. Now it wanted me to log in with an account, which I don't recall ever doing before.

I couldn't reset my password, or create a new account. Checking the app store, everyone is in the same boat. The app is borked.

Ended up rebooting the router and everything started working again. Wild.

Then...

I got a series of six alerts from Apple that fraudulent activity had been detected on my Apple Card. Kudos to Goldman Sachs for the timely alerts. I chatted with support online and they're sending me a new (titanium) card. I don't know when it might have been skimmed, as I don't recall exactly where I used it. I think I was trying to use my other card when I tried to fill the tank on my Avis rental at three "all-night" gas stations, none of which actually pumped gas.

It was pouring rain Sunday night, so I figured I'd fill the tank in the morning. Bad choice. And once you get off 87 at the airport, you're basically at the airport, no gas.

Anyway, might have used the Apple Card at one or more of those gas stations and it might have been skimmed. I'm not super-alert at 0445. At least, not these days.

Anyway, the only transaction of any real value was for $42 at a Starbucks somewhere in Washington state, and a bunch of $.01 transactions, presumably to see if the card was valid. I wasn't billed for it, so, yay. I guess.

The way we live now.

Mitzi gets home late tomorrow night, assuming her flight is on time.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 04:02 Thursday, 28 September 2023