michael called me as i was coming back. he had an e-mail issue where it looked like somebody was sending out thousands of his e-mails from his account and they were getting bounced back. i told him to change his password.
after a shower, i called michael back, asking if he had any luck solving his e-mail situation. he wasn't able to get ahold of his webhosting company, so i told him i'd drop by his shop to check out the issue. before i left, i put the old scanner and some outdated cablemodems in the basement, then brought out all my plant growing equipment. i wore my allbirds wool shoes for the very first time, won't have many chances to wear then when the weather gets warmer.
i got to michael's shop by 12:40pm. i figured it'd be a quick visit, but i ended up staying there for nearly 2 hours. his e-mail definitely got hacked. i went into his webhost admin and changed the e-mail password, but his webhost had already sent him an e-mail saying they'd suspended outgoing mail from his account due to overwhelming demand. i contacted the webhost via chat, finally got an agent after nearly 15 minutes of waiting. it took another half hour of slow communication to get the agent to unsuspend the account.
i left harvard square by 2:30pm and went to the cafe to help my 2nd aunt set up her new moto G stylus 2022 phone ($180). she'd been there since 1pm, because i told her i was going to be there then, not expecting to get there so late. i reset the moto G stylus, before initiating the transfer from her old phone. luckily she didn't have too many apps, so there was just a handful of accounts to check to make sure they worked. after she'd played with the phone a while and seemed to like it, i finally put on the glass screen protector. she didn't think the phone was too big - as wide as her old phone, just an inch taller. she was also afraid it might be heavy, but said it felt lighter than what she'd imagined. my mother had told her the phone on the moto wasn't the greatest, but i did some test photos, and my aunt seemed happy with the results. i also set up the fingerprint sensor and face sensor, because my aunt had said she didn't like always having to enter the pin on her old phone. i installed netflix and she seemed surprised that it'd work on her phone, since her old phone could barely run normal apps, let alone stream videos. the last thing we did was to change the background, she wanted something brighter.
i finally left by 5pm. i rode down to the porter square star market to get some fried chicken on sale ($6). i returned home and finally had lunch. my stomach had been grumbling all day, especially since i went out for a run this morning and then did some subsequent biking. i could feel my thigh muscles straining from all the activity.
later in the evening i had some more fried chicken for dinner. only then did i remember i was supposed to make some cabbage kimchi today, totally slipped my mind. i won't be able to do it until thursday, hope all those vegetable ingredients can stay fresh until then.
i managed to watch the finale of the world baseball classic, US vs japan. the game finished with an exciting ending: jack-of-all-trades superstar shohei ohtani as the closing pitcher, facing off against his angel teammate mike trout, one of the best hitters in MLB. ohtani threw 100mph fastballs to challenge trout, who was no match for the pitching. japan won 3-2.