The new Mac mini is humming along as a media server and a place to join Zoom meetings. I haven’t spent any timesetting up its command-line environment yet, which may be just as well.

I caught up on officially finishing a few Toastmasters projects and submitting them in the system which means I’ve successfully completed Level 1 of Dynamic Leadership.

I finally got Home Assistant properly connected to the instrumentation on our solar power system, so I can see power use, battery status, and power generation at a glance. It should be more interesting when the sun is shining.

We also took a few walks; not all the trees change here, but the ginkgos certainly do!

And we booked our timeshare in Maui for this week next year!

I made a few more attempts to revive the old Mac mini without success; trying to update beyond Yosemite seems to be futile. So I punted and bought a new Mac mini at Best Buy; unfortunately, the only configuration in stock there (or at the Apple Store) was rather small: 8GB memory with a 512GB SSD, which wouldn’t hold my entire Plex library, so I added an external 1TB SSD.

I spent most of the afternoon and evening installing software; now I’m copying my movies and music from the Time Machine backup to the external SSD. It will take all night; I’m not going to watch!