As usual for Shabbat, we took an early walk and then Zoomed to services at Shir Hadash. We’d originally planned to have Thursday’s leftover chicken for lunch today, but we enjoyed all of it on Thursday; instead, I picked up some burrito bowls (sadly light on chicken) from our local Chipotle.

Getting there and back was harder than I expected – it was a hot day, and there was a lot of beach traffic, enough to back up intersections a mile from the freeway because people blocked the box routinely.

After lunch, I tried to attach my new Raspberry Pi Zero W to the AD2PI and thence to the alarm system. I thought I was hooking it up correctly, but the AD2PI didn’t get power, so I connected it the other way. The AD2PI lit up for a few seconds and then went blank; so did the Pi.

I put the Pi Three back in and it can hear the AD2PI, but it doesn’t seem to be able to talk to it, so I can monitor the alarm but can’t control it remotely. And that doesn’t make any sense to me – there’s no reason things should have gotten worse.

I picked up a new external hard drive to use as a backup drive for the media server; it’s busy doing an initial Time Machine backup. It may take a while.

The one unqualified technical success I had today was putting my WyzeCam back into service to watch the garage door, now that I no longer need it as an emergency webcam.

One out of three ain’t bad, right?

I put what I hope are the final touches on the special COVID-19 version of the Shir Hadash High Holy Day Honors programs; I’m awaiting final approval of the emails from the Temple President.

The Raspberry Pi W Zero to replace the one I fried last Saturday arrived; I tested it and made sure that it boots up and can talk to the house Wi-Fi. Tomorrow or Sunday, I’ll hook it up to the alarm system – very carefully.

I checked the other Raspberry Pi that I thought I had fried on the off chance that it had come back to life. It hadn’t. I saved its case and put the board in the e-waste bag in the garage for eventual recycling.

We upgraded both iPhones and my iPad to 13.6.

I’m sure there are more exciting days to come, but having a relaxed day was welcome, even if it doesn’t make for interesting writing.