I don't wish the marmot to become a chronicle of the daily aches and pains of an old man, but wow.

I received two vaccinations yesterday, RSV and the new COVID vaccine, so it's hard to say exactly which of the two kicked my ass last night. But I seemed to recall I had an unpleasant experience with Moderna before.

Consulting the marmot, back in June '22 I got a Moderna shot and had this experience. So I'm at least somewhat confident that there's something about the Moderna product that doesn't agree with me. It was the only product available yesterday, but if this is going to be a yearly event, I'm going to stick with Pfizer.

Last night was as bad as any flu I've ever had. Fever, chills, headache, body-ache, etc. Tylenol took some of the edge off, but not a lot. I'm running at about 70% today, mild headache still present. It's possible it's a combined effect of both vaccines, but Moderna does seem problematic for me.

In other news, perhaps it's the "placebo effect," or wishful thinking, but my knees do genuinely seem to feel better.

When I picked up the prescription for the antibiotic, it was the first time I'd paid for any meds using Tricare For Life. It was a bit of a discussion with the checkout clerk as she seemed unfamiliar with it and kept insisting I must have Medicare Part D. My Tricare coverage was already in their system. The pharmacist squared her away, and the bill was only $2.30.

There was a couple about my age standing next to me, and apparently they're retired military too and were singing the praises of Tricare For Life as well. I asked them what they were there for, and they said they were getting the RSV shot. That reminded me that I wanted to check to see if they had the new COVID shot, which I mentioned to the pharmacist tech. (They did.)

The guy said, "Why bother? It doesn't do any good."

I just smiled and said I've gotten every one I was eligible for and I haven't caught COVID yet, that I know of.

So I went off to see about getting a COVID shot and they sat down to get their RSV shots.

But I wondered, what kind of thinking does it take to decide that a COVID vaccination "doesn't do any good," and therefore you won't take it; but you will get the RSV vaccination? You must believe mRNA vaccines aren't effective or something. Someone should have alerted the Nobel committee.

People are weird.

I ended up getting both the new COVID formulation (Moderna, they didn't have Pfizer, my preferred brand.) and the RSV shot.

Living in Florida is, literally, like taking your life in your hands. I'll take all the help I can get.

Just went through and fixed a bunch of screw-ups in the marmot. Yesterday, I was working on some spreadsheets that document the house energy production/consumption. I'd been working on them in August(?), and I couldn't recall how I'd done certain things, or if I'd done certain things. So I ended up doing them again. (Found the things I'd done back in August, right where I'd left them.)

This was before I knew I had Lyme. But it was frustrating, because I don't usually have this much difficulty recalling things that I did.

I've been reading a book and noticing sometimes words wouldn't make sense. I'd read the sentence again, more carefully, and the word that didn't make sense wasn't the word I seemed to see when I read it the first time. That's also new.

I put it down to being really tired from not sleeping well, which I suppose it may well have been. But I'm wondering if it might not be Lyme as well.

When I went to see the doc, I wrote everything down that I wanted to discuss in a note, because I feel like I'm forgetting stuff more than usual.

Anyway, I guess knowing is better than not knowing and hopefully this antibiotic does some good. I suppose it may not all be the tick, but it definitely feels as though I've lost a step.

...between "shit" and "syphilis."

Sums up how I feel about Kevin McCarthy. I watched part of the votes in the House yesterday on YouTube. Hoped to catch a glimpse of my congressman, Deputy Pornstache. Never spotted him, but it was interesting watching those clowns socialize together.

I think I spotted "just the tip" seditionist Mike Waltz chatting up Matt Gaetz in the well of the house. I wonder what they were talking about.

Mitzi says if Gaetz is elected governor of Florida, we're leaving the state. I understand the sentiment. Easier said than done, but I'd go be in favor of doing it.

Saw that liar George Santos rocking his trademark sweater vest. Nobody seemed to want to talk to him. Almost, almost, felt sorry for that bastard.

Watched Hands Boebert yucking it up with some of her colleagues about something on her smartphone.

There was this one heavyset guy with a flattop who looked just like Chris Farley. I'm guessing he's about Chris's age if he'd lived. The resemblance was fortified as he went from colleague to colleague exhibiting these ceaseless, enormous hand and arm gestures accompanying his grinning, silent, patter. Wild. Life imitates art or something.

It was entertaining for a while.

Petyr Baelish, "Chaos is a ladder."

We all know how that turned out.

...between "shit" and "syphilis."

Sums up how I feel about Kevin McCarthy. I watched part of the votes in the House yesterday on YouTube. Hoped to catch a glimpse of my congressman, Deputy Pornstache. Never spotted him, but it was interesting watching those clowns socialize together.

I think I spotted "just the tip" seditionist Mike Waltz chatting up Matt Gaetz in the well of the house. I wonder what they were talking about.

Mitzi says if Gaetz is elected governor of Florida, we're leaving the state. I understand the sentiment. Easier said than done, but I'd go be in favor of doing it.

Saw that liar George Santos rocking his trademark sweater vest. Nobody seemed to want to talk to him. Almost, almost, felt sorry for that bastard.

Watched Hands Boebert yucking it up with some of her colleagues about something on her smartphone.

There was this one heavyset guy with a flattop who looked just like Chris Farley. I'm guessing he's about Chris's age if he'd lived. The resemblance was fortified as he went from colleague to colleague exhibiting these ceaseless, enormous hand and arm gestures accompanying his grinning, silent, patter. Wild. Life imitates art or something.

It was entertaining for a while.

Petyr Baelish, "Chaos is a ladder."

We all know how that turned out.

I received the results of my bloodwork yesterday. Everything seems fine, except I do have Lyme Disease! Bummer. Have to go pick up a prescription for some antibiotics today.

I've been feeling pretty old recently, and kind of surprised at how fast that seems to have happened. Everything aches, tired, peripheral nerve pain, knees especially painful, can't recall things that used to just come right to mind, feeling cold when it's 77°F in the house. Some of it is probably age-related, but it just came on so fast. Could be the infection, maybe.

When I saw the doc, she seemed skeptical about ordering the test, Lyme isn't present in Florida. Told her I'd been "glamping" in Pennsylvania and my daughter spotted a red ring on the back of my neck when she was cutting my hair. So she ordered the test.

In my memory, that all happened back in March. Happily, kinda, it was May. Caitie spotted the ring as it was fading, two weeks after I was in the woods. Not long after that, in June, I was trying to get seen at Mayo and was told I wasn't being seen for primary care there anymore.

Not that it might have mattered. I didn't know there was any particular urgency to getting that ring checked out. I just recalled that people often harbored Lyme for years, and it not causing problems until later. It seems that the most effective treatment is early in the infection, and it's kind of uncertain how well this course of antibiotics will be. It's not that Lyme kills you, it's just that it makes you miserable.

Anyway, I'll take the pills and see what happens. Hope for the best. Better than nothing, right?

Passed it along to my classmates who were with me, suggesting they may want to get checked out.

I received the results of my bloodwork yesterday. Everything seems fine, except I do have Lyme Disease! Bummer. Have to go pick up a prescription for some antibiotics today.

I've been feeling pretty old recently, and kind of surprised at how fast that seems to have happened. Everything aches, tired, peripheral nerve pain, knees especially painful, can't recall things that used to just come right to mind, feeling cold when it's 77°F in the house. Some of it is probably age-related, but it just came on so fast. Could be the infection, maybe.

When I saw the doc, she seemed skeptical about ordering the test, Lyme isn't present in Florida. Told her I'd been "glamping" in Pennsylvania and my daughter spotted a red ring on the back of my neck when she was cutting my hair. So she ordered the test.

In my memory, that all happened back in March. Happily, kinda, it was May. Caitie spotted the ring as it was fading, two weeks after I was in the woods. Not long after that, in June, I was trying to get seen at Mayo and was told I wasn't being seen for primary care there anymore.

Not that it might have mattered. I didn't know there was any particular urgency to getting that ring checked out. I just recalled that people often harbored Lyme for years, and it not causing problems until later. It seems that the most effective treatment is early in the infection, and it's kind of uncertain how well this course of antibiotics will be. It's not that Lyme kills you, it's just that it makes you miserable.

Anyway, I'll take the pills and see what happens. Hope for the best. Better than nothing, right?

Passed it along to my classmates who were with me, suggesting they may want to get checked out.

Apple's iPhone event and the Mother Nature bit are still showing up in my feeds, so a few more thoughts.

This ifixit piece touches on part of it, but omits the the biggest problem.

Our economic model must change, to make manufacturers responsible for the complete lifecycle of their products. That means pricing in the cost of "disposal."

The environmental harm our economic model has been causing by failing to capture externalities now threatens our global civilization, and you know what I think our chances are about that.

But if we are to do everything we can, because it's the right thing to do, it's what we owe our children, regardless of the outcome, we need to come to grips with true cost of products and services.

We have robbed from the future to enjoy the luxuries we have today. We have to change that. We have made a tiny minority obscenely rich by stealing from our children.

It's not truly a "free market" if some players are immune to the consequences of their actions. Are given a license to profit at the expense of our planet and our children's future.

This will be a difficult conversation to have, and more difficult to implement. And we must ensure that, if we do this, the greatest burden doesn't fall on those least able to bear it.

It will mean sacrifice, inconvenience, wholesale changes to our "lifestyles." An entirely different perspective on "capitalism" and "consumerism" and material "happiness."

I'm not optimistic that we can meet this challenge, which is part of my pessimism on our civilization's chances.

But if we're going to talk about things like "corporate responsibility," we ought to be speaking about the whole truth, not just nibbling around the edges. Confronting the hard truths, and not hiding behind clever videos and snappy dialog.

It'll take courage, and that's something of a scarce commodity these days.

I've seen a number of mentions in social media or blogs, Heather Cox Richardson being one of them, about Joe Biden's speech in Arizona earlier this week. Many of them urged watching the speech in its entirety.

So I did.

Certain, usual, caveats apply. It's Joe Biden, never a truly great orator, and he's always been a bit too ready to offer the personal anecdote. Age hasn't improved his skill as a speech-maker, either. Not that he's too old. His voice is strong, and his message is clear.

It's worth the effort to listen.

I've made it easy for you, I'm embedding it below. Feel free to skip past the introduction if you feel pressed for time.

The sleep deprivations continue.

Mitzi did get in last night. She did miss her original connection in Chicago. (Side note: I was wrong about the layover. Had the flight out of Athens not been delayed by two hours, she would have had plenty of time, no optimism required.) American booked her on a United flight that would have put her into Jacksonville about 10:40 PM, about 30 minutes later than her original flight. She had to hustle to her gate, but she got on that flight.

But...

That flight was then delayed sitting on the tarmac after pushing back from the gate for 40 minutes.

Then...

For reasons perhaps only understood by the aviation gods, after landing in Jax, her flight couldn't get a gate. Apparently, it was to remain at Jax overnight, so it had to be parked at Gate 6, which had a plane boarding at it, which was also apparently delayed.

So I sat in the cell phone lot for half an hour.

Kept texting Mitzi to check on progress, got no response.

Called her, went to voice mail.

I figured that maybe her battery had died, she has a mini and had been traveling for the better part of 18 hours. So I left the lot and figured I'd make a pass by arrivals and orbit if necessary.

The airport seemed incredibly busy for being nearly midnight. Traffic was thick and crept along, which was fine with me as it increased the probability I'd find her on the first pass.

When I got to Door 2, I got a text saying she was at Door 1. I was able to nudge my way to the curb and told her where I was. She got in the car at midnight.

We got home at 00:45, and her body clock was now somewhere around 7 or 8 A.M. and she had to get unpacked, show me all the souvenirs, etc. Finally got to bed after two.

And the alarm went off at 0530. Turned it off and went back to sleep.

She got up at 0730. I said screw it and got up too. She went back to bed. I'm here.

It's a roll of the dice, flying these days. Not that you'll crash or anything. Just whether or not you'll get to where you're going anywhere near the time the airline schedule said you would. And extreme weather events are only going to keep making that worse.

When we were in Martha's Vineyard, my daughter flew from LA to New York. Weather hold over JFK. Low on fuel, flew to Philly, landed, refueled, back to JFK. She was in that tube for 10 hours on a domestic flight.

It's a big country. We don't have high speed rail. People have to fly.

But it sucks. It really does.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 07:43 Saturday, 30 September 2023

There I was, sitting in my recliner, engrossed in reading a new book, Sunburst and Luminary, An Apollo Memoir, by Don Eyles. Vague notions of lunch intruding at the back of my mind.

Suddenly, "BZZZZZZTT! Thwap!" Again, right to my immediate right.

Daylight and a sense of what surfaces might have yielded that sound gave me a clue where to look, even if I didn't know what I would find.

Cautiously pulled my little radio back, and there he (or she) was. A lost shield bug. I'm guessing they're not great fliers.

After snapping a few candids, I coaxed it onto my hand and took it outside. It seemed to like my hand, as it didn't want to let go over the garden. Gave it a nudge and it fell into the dirt, hopefully to live whatever a fulfilling life is to a shield bug.

Checked Mitzi's flight progress. Time remaining in flight is greater than the time remaining for the departure of her connection. Another night alone.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 13:10 Friday, 29 September 2023

There's a local public interest morning radio show on WJCT called First Coast Connect. If you're interested or curious about what's going on in northeast Florida, you should listen to the podcast or tune in if you're local.

Every Friday they have the Friday Media Roundtable in which local reporters and public figures discuss the week's events and place them in context for the city and the region.

I love the show and I donate $25 a month as a "sustaining member," which makes my local public radio station one of my more expensive subscription streaming services. The good news is you can pay what you want. So if you can't afford $25 a month, you can pay $5, or just donate $20 for the year! Or if you can't afford it at all, you're still welcome to listen and be informed.

But, I digress.

In this morning's broadcast, the last issue that came up was a proposed rate increase for the publicly owned utility, JEA. The .9% rate hike is intended to offset the increased costs of buying power from Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant.

Now, this rate increase will be unpopular, and Vogtle has been a sad story of cost overrun after cost overrun and likely put Toshiba out of business. But that's not the real story.

The real story is the other rate increase JEA recently enacted, where it increased the base rate, which places a higher burden on low-income customers, while it also offered a rate structure that reduced costs for higher energy consumers.

That should never have happened.

Base rates should have remained the same, while surcharge rates should have applied to high consumption customers to encourage efforts at conservation and efficiency. Instead, they offered a market signal that suggests that energy costs are low.

And they are low, because they don't capture the externalities in the degradation of our climate and the costs of adapting to our changing climate. If indeed that's possible.

I wasn't able to call in in time to rant about this, because it just infuriates me.

Especially because DeSantis, in a politically calculated move to promote his presidential campaign, rejected over $300M in federal funds to help consumers to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce the amount of carbon their energy use injects into our atmosphere.

It's criminal. Or it ought to be. Just like when he politicized public health, exhibiting depraved indifference to the health and safety of Floridians during the height of the pandemic.

I didn't get to call in, but I do have the marmot. I expect that First Coast Connect has a vastly larger audience than the marmot, but at least I get to have my say.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 09:54 Friday, 29 September 2023

Because it won't last.

Every morning, as I fill my water bottle, I make an effort to be grateful and appreciate the modern miracle of clean drinking water (even though we soften it and filter it as it enters the house) on demand.

It hasn't always been like this.

It may not be again.

So appreciate and be grateful for the privileges we enjoy today. We may not have them for much longer.

Having said I didn't watch Succession because it was all about horrible people in positions of some "power," and I live in that reality here in Florida every single day of my life, I was shocked last night when I watched the most recent episode of The Morning Show.

In an otherwise enjoyable episode, the scene with the ad execs in the restaurant made me angry. Was it essential to the story? I don't know. I get it, but I didn't care for it at all.

Speaking of horrible people, is the government still running?

Huzzah! I actually slept through the night. Mostly. Fell back asleep when I woke up occasionally.

Woke to the alarm, turned it off and went back to sleep. Somehow I must have turned on the ringer on my iPhone, because I woke up again at 0600 when Mitzi texted. (Star Trek communicator hail.) She wanted to know if I was awake to FaceTime. Since HomeKit now works again, picture John Candy in Uncle Buck as he's roused from sleep by his brother to look after the kids and uses The Clapper to turn the lights on. Same thing, minus the cigarette.

Mitzi wanted to let me know she's probably going to miss her connection in Chicago. They're delayed out of Athens and she's got a very short layover. It was, let us say, "optimistic" to begin with. If she misses that one, she'll board it 24 hours later and get home tomorrow night.

Le sigh.

Went outside to see if I could see any stars or the moon, and we're still solidly overcast. Made a batch of caffeinated soft drink, and parked my ass in the command chair to see what fresh horrors occurred overnight.

Computer's in "dark mode," but there's one rectangle of white light on the screen in my otherwise darkened Command Cave. From my right I hear a loud buzzing coming in fast and something whizzes into the screen with a fairly substantial bang!

Suitably caffeinated, I jumped! What the hell?! Ordered Siri to bring office illumination to 100% and looked for whatever hell-spawned creature had violated the security perimeter of the cave.

Nothing.

Can't find the little bastard.

May have something to do with the region of extreme entropy within the cave. Or perhaps it's Klingon cloaking technology. Or was that Romulan? Romulan, I think.

Anyway, it's creeping around here somewhere, but it's not otherwise annoying me for the moment.

How's your Friday goin'?

I've been watching Season 2 of Invasion, and it's much better than the first season. Pacing is faster, more "action," and it's relatively interesting, if incomprehensible.

It's not "great" TV, but it's a diversion.

The Morning Show is doing pretty well in its new season. I was never a fan of Succession, as I live in a state filled with horrible people in positions of power, so I don't find horrible people especially entertaining. The Morning Show has some of the corporate intrigue without the irredeemably despicable people.

Looking forward to a return, someday, of Slow Horses and For All Mankind.

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

Going to see a doctor today for the first time in a few years for a physical. Mostly interested in seeing how my kidney is doing. I know I'm obese and out of shape, which doesn't require an MD to diagnose.

This will also by my introduction to the Baptist Health System. They're fairly highly regarded here in the region. If you're having a stroke, the guidance is to get to Baptist I guess.

I'd been a Mayo client for over 20 years until the kicked me to the curb once I went on Medicare. Pretty shitty, I think. I guess they make enough money off medical tourism, people flying in from out of town for specialist care, that they don't need to offer ordinary care for the kind of money Medicare offers. It's all about the money, even for "non-profits."

So far though, I'm reasonably pleased with their intake process. I completed a family medical history online, and a pharmacist called and went over my existing meds (only one) in advance of my appointment. The only glitch was I made a typo in entering my Tricare number for "additional insurance," and they wouldn't let me edit it to correct it.

They subsequently sent me a message that they'd added Tricare to my insurance coverage. Now, I don't know if they tried to validate that number or not, or if they caught my typo from the image of my retired ID I was required to upload. I'll ask about it at the desk this afternoon.

One nice thing is that it's a satellite clinic here in Nocatee, less than 5 miles from the house. Mayo would have been like most other places, 30 minutes by car from here.

I'm ambivalent about my personal longevity these days. I'd have to live another 24 years to make it to 90 like Mom. But I think that's perilously close to things falling apart. Do I want to stick around and say, "I told you so!"

Well, whether I'm here or not is probably not entirely up to me. While I'm around, I'd kind of like to keep things in mostly working order. Like the marmot, I guess.

Hopefully not as irritating.

Aunt Carol, who is 88, chatting with Mom at her birthday party.

Fixed one automation. Now trying to figure out the Forklift sync, because of course that doesn't work. I know the source folder changed, and I corrected that, but it didn't sync the image.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:23 Wednesday, 27 September 2023

We're out of Documents and into a folder within my user account. I'm sure other stuff is busted now. Like the Photos automation. So frustrating. I don't know if this is a new Sonoma thing, or if it has something to do with using the MBP. This post is just to test Hazel, and make sure I have the export folders properly set up in Tinderbox.

Okay. Back to square one. September folder reappeared. Hazel couldn't move it. Log shows the same deadlocked resource error. I don't get it.

I'm going to evict the marmot from the cloud and hope that ends it.

God I hate computers.

Caitie doesn't like the way I photograph people. This shot was taken during an exchange we were having regarding my artistic choices, and she approached the lens while making her point.

I'll have to remember that trick.

Progress, perhaps?

Exported the preceding. Went to Forklift to see what was going to get sync'ed. If the September folder was there, then Hazel was still failing.

The September folder was not there. I could sync without telling Forklift to ignore the folder and its contents, which is the desired behavior.

Checked Hazel's log, and no reports of avoiding deadlocked resources, so it seems Forklift having the exports folder open may have been causing the deadlock.

If this post goes smoothly, I'll assume that was the problem and all is right with the world. Or at least the marmot.

Jack Baty seems to be up early too.

Anyway, re-started and it made no difference. Checked Noodlesoft's troubleshooting recommendations and viewed the log. "{Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=11 "Resource deadlock avoided"}"

Entered "resource deadlock" into the forum search field and saw an entry about OneDrive. From that I gather this must have something to do with iCloud.

Again.

Read a different post in the forum about a problem with DropBox. That seemed to be resolved when the person deleted the rule and created a new one.

I looked on my 13" M1 MBP to see if there might be a clue there. I was smart enough to quit Tinderbox before launching Tinderbox on the iMac, and I launched TB on the iMac by opening the marmot from the Documents folder after it had sync'ed, as I've learned that TB will open with an archived snapshot that would probably get sync'ed with iCloud and destroy the correct version, losing my previous posts. All of which reminds me why I put the marmot on a thumb drive when I took it on the road last summer. This cloud storage bullshit is too complicated.

Anyway, I noticed I hadn't quit Forklift on the MBP and it was open to marmot exports too, so maybe that was the source of iCloud's confusion? So I quit Forklift on the MBP and I'm going to give this another shot. If this doesn't work, I'll try deleting and re-creating the rule.

Failing that, I'll evict the marmot from the cloud and keep it local on the iMac and copy it to the thumb drive when I take it on the road.

Not how I planned to spend my sleepless wee hours of the morning.

Figured it was pointless just to lie in bed, so here I am.

Updated the iMac to Sonoma last night. Made the preceding post and noted that Hazel wasn't deleting the extraneous September folder Tinderbox creates. Checked the rule in Hazel and found a note that it couldn't move the September folder to the trash, though I never received an error alert and Hazel is configured to show such alerts.

Tried Check for Updates in the application menu and it didn't seem to do anything. Went to Noodlesoft.com directly and noted that the latest was 5.2.2 and I was still running 5.1. Downloaded and installed the latest version, and I'm getting the same error. Checked the Hazel forum, nothing specifically calling out this problem with Sonoma.

I think'll re-start everything and see what happens.

Le sigh...