Log of dswkim.org, 2020


12:30:  Bought Samsung 32" 4K monitor, U32J59x.
12:29:  My Acer 17" laptop crashed and got a service to recover all data.
12:12:  RIP John Le Carre, one of the greatest detective story writers,espeicallyfor cold war area.
12:10:  My gamil got hacked again.
12:09:  Received this year's first printed Christmas Card.
12:07:  RIP Chuck Yearger, the legendary pilot who's the 1st to break the sound barrier.
12:06:  Bought BT-298A mini amp for my desktop to connect Cambridge Soundworks's 2 speakers and a subwoofer.
        The quality of sound is uncomparable to most speakers.
12:03:  My yahoomail got hacked, snatched, and I couldn't login at all, and
        Yahoo Security disabled it for security violation, through the long , hours of verification
        process, I was proved to be the owner for 20 years and got my yahoo email back.
12:02:  Company laptop locked me out, and it was hectic to get it recovered.
        I couldn't login at all from home-office network, but once I aonnected it company network, 
        I was able to login.  I couldn't reproduce the problem at my office cubicle.
12:01:  As I had one of credit card got cancelled due to the hacking,  bunch of auto-payments
        got rejected and received a bunch emails and call on bounced auto-payments.
11:30:  My paypal and one of credit accounts got hacked.
11:26:  Thanksgivnign!
11:22:  Sad to hear Guitar Center filed for bankruptcy.  I owe lots to the biggest musical instrumen store.
        Hope Guitar Center stays in bysiness.
11:11:  Veteran's Day!
11:06:  Had one teeth extracted at a dentist after it got broken, in preparation for implant.
11:04:  Bought Canon RP mirrorless full frame camera with 24-105mm lens.
11:03:  Election Day!
10:31:  RIP Sean Connery, 007 Jaems Bond.
10:29:  Bought Air Fryer for new cooking tool.
10:20:  Casted Absentee Ballot for November 3, 2020 Election.
10:15:  Got off the hook ^^.  New Era starts.
10:06:  RIP Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest Heavy Metal guitarist.
10:02:  bought a refurbished HP 600 G1 with Intel i7-4670 3.4 GHz, 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD with Windows 10 Pro.
10:01:  Happy Chuseok!
9:23:  RIP French chanteuse Juliette Greco.
9:18:  At 11:38 PM, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake hard hit LA, which were quite shaky.
9:11:  Rember 911!
9:10:  RIP actress Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg of British TV serives Aventers.
9:05:  Had a flu shot at Costco.
9:04:  City of Los Angeles turned 239 years old!
9:02:  RIP David Graeber, an anthropologist and anarchist.
9:01:  1/3 of this year left and need to plan for wrapping up this year.
8:15:  National Liberation Day in Korea.
8:11:  RIP Russel Kirsh who invented pixel in 1957.
8:10:  Bought a new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite DualSIM.
7:26:  RIP William English, Mouse-cursor co-inventor. 
7:06:  RIP Ennio Morricone.  I used to like his music and OST better than the movie itself.
7:04:  The Fourth of July!
7:01:  Second 1/2 of 2020 started.
6:30:  First half of this has gone.	
5:28:  Had a hair cut in 4 months
5:27:  Used cardboard boxes to make windows shades of Sienna.  It looks cheap but is practical.
5:25:  Memorial Day!
5:22:  Had Sienna's oil changed at 77,356 miles.
5:21:  Had four tires, 235/60/17, of Toyota Sienna XLE replaced at 77,316  miles.
       Bought a new set of twin bed mattress and a frame.
5:18:  Never forget 518 of Kwangju.
5:17:  Replaced 3 wiper blades of Toyota Sienna XLE.
5;16:  Replaced air filter and cabin filter of Toyota Sienna XLE.
5:13:  Get Sienna back from the auto body shop.
5:07:  RIP Souplantation, which used to be one of my favorite hnagouts with friends.
       This Covid19 pandemic kills a number of good business and memories associated with it.
5:05:  Cinco de Mayo!
       Children's Day in Korea!
5:04:  Left Sienna at the auto body shop for hit-and-run damage on the read of the driver side.
5:01:  International Worker's Day!
4:30:  Buddha's Birthday!
4:29:  28 years ago today, there was a LA riot and LA's Korean town got severely damaged.
4:27:  Bought a small drone.
4:22:  Bought a Black & Decker Cordless Driver DP600 at $19.12, as old one DP360 was not charging anymore.
       The replacment battery for old DP360 ranges at least $20 - 50+ at eBay.  It's nonsense to replace battery.
4:21:  Watched all 8 episodes of Money Heist (or Paper House).
4:16:  Stood in line at 7:30 at Costco and got in at 8:30 and I bought Kirkland bath tissue finally.
4:15:  Bought a box of 10 medical masks at $23.99.
4:13:  Bought Bose AE2i headset, which is satisfying.
       Bouught 3 medical masks at $3.99 each.
4:12:  Happy Easter!
4:10:  Bought iClever BK-05 Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard.
4:09:  RIP Mort Drucker, the Master of Mad Caricature.
       RIP Dr Won Byeong-Oh, the Korean ornithologist.
       Stood in line at 6:30 at Costco Business Center in Lawndale and got in at 7:30 but there's no home bath tisseu to buy.
4:08:  Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for Democartic Presidentail Candidate.
       I suppoorted him for the past elections.
       RIP Mr Wu Zhongxing, the publisher of Lao Fu Zi for 56 years.
4:01:  Everyone's serious on life, although it's April Fool's Day.
3:24:  RIP Albert Uderzo, the creator of Asterix for 52 years.
3:19:  Happy Birthday!
3:18:  Started working from home.
3:16:  Stay at Home Order was issued.
3:14:  Even after 2 weeks of shopping around, I still haven't bought bathroom tissue and bottles of water.
3:13:  It rained in LA.
3:11:  It rained in LA and I left home earlier than usual and drove a bit around in the rain before heading to the work.
3:08:  Forgot that summer time started today.	
3:07:  Visited newly opened Mitsuwa Market in Torrance Del Amo Mall.	
3:02:  Went to Costco to buy Bath tissue and bottled water but all those ran out already.
2:29:  Had the business licence for the city of Hawthorne renewed for another year, one month behind.
       Had Sienna annual registration renewed.
2:19:  Started to review HTML5 in a long time.
2:18:  Just learned that Shockwave was gone already and flash will be gone at the end of the year.
       Realized that I need to learn the new tools replacing shockwave and flash contents.
2:16:  RIP Larry Tesler who invented ctrl + x, ctrl + c, and ctrl + v.	
2:14:  Valentine's Day!
2:09:  After the raining in LA, it got cold and windy.
2:08:  RIP Robert Conrad of "Wild Wild West" TV series.
2:07:  Powered off U60 Solaris workstations at home.  No more SPARC/solaris?
       Since late 1980's, I've used SunOS/Solaris both at work and home.
2:05:  The fantail gold fish I've raised for 10 years passed away.
       Installed NGiNX 1.17.1.
       Enabled IIS on Windows 10 Desktop.
2:04:  Received the California State Tax refund check.
2:03:  Started a new contract in Norwalk.
1:31;  Received new RealID, but got quite disappointed at the ID picture.
       Microsoft stopped supproting Azure Container Services.  Use AKS, Azure Kubernetes Services, instead.
1:25:  Happy Lunar New Year!
       Filled out free TurboTax for Tax Filing 2019.
1:24:  It got foggy in LA.
1:23:  Got up at 5:30, arrived at Torrance DMV at 6:00 AM, waited for an hour to have RealID made, and
       got out by 8:00 AM.  That was good enough.
1:20:  It's Martin Luther King, Jr Day!
       Watched 1917.
       20:20:20 2020 came only once in history.
1:16:  Electiricy in my neighborhood was out for the whole day :-(
       Dyed hair.
       RIP Christopher Tolkien, the son of J R R Tolkien, the creator ofthe Lord of the Rings.
1:14:  Support for MS Windows 7 ended.  
       Wondered why some people refused to upgrade to Windows 10 for 10 years.
       Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 ended.
1:09:  Read "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang.
1:08:  Read "The Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang.
1:06:  Watched Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.
1:05:  UPloaded 20+ Essays in Korean and updated /Links.
1:04:  Finished reading "Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang.
1:03:  Uploaded 30+ Essays in Korean, and updated /Links.
1:02:  Uploaded 30+ Essays in Korean.
1.01:  Welcome New Year!

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