Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tax money has arrived in the credit union account that gets paid out of. I wasn't sure if that was going to make it in time or if I'd have to rely on government inefficiency to avoid bouncing those checks. (Accountant sent me the much higher than expected bill with just a couple days to come up with considerably more than I had saved so I ended up liquidating a chunk of my brokerage account to cover the difference)

Struggled through a conversation with someone who had picked up some nonsensical alien terminology because she asked ChatGPT instead of starting with a human.

Looking at the tax forms the accountant finally sent out today, it seems that the money I took in from people grateful for free software I've written resulted in a tax increase more than 3x that amount. Estimated taxes are also up by enough that I needed to give myself a raise to cover that.

Ordered a pizza.

No clue how my cell number ended up on the Republican text spam lists but I'm doing report as spam and blocking all of that. (I'd do the same for Dems if they were spamming me but at the moment it's all GOP, scammy lenders, and roofers who are getting plonked)

@mike Ah, nevermind, I see what's going on there.

@mike It bothers me that the volume icon examples in the text don't match the volume icons in the picture.

@lilithsaintcrow Today someone hand delivered two printed AI slop letters to the shop hoping I'd give them stuff to resell without charging them for it.

Today is not a good day for dealing with the outside world. Thankfully, I have tomorrow scheduled as a work from home day.

I voted after work. It looks like we're on to a new sticker design and the poll workers were very big into thanking people for voting. Not a big turn out. Only one thing on the ballot had a choice.

This doesn't count several years before I started tracking this in a database.

Looking over some reports it seems that over the past 2 decades I've spent over $1M on coffee.

Reinflated my mother's bicycle tires.

Today's work was good. I've unblocked a lot of stuff now that'll just be straightforward slogging it out, but that should be a ton of highly visible progress.

Today's coding has mostly been exploratory. I don't know if the approach I've worked out is how I want to handle the feature in the long run but I've confirmed that it's an approach that can definitely be made to work.

Successfully debugged a feature. Will need to go back and clean up the mess I made trying to figure out what was going wrong.

Had to tell someone that I can't help them with the coffee order that went to the wrong address because they didn't actually order it from us. Not sure how they got our phone number for that, but I do like the cool pictures of dogs on the packaging of the company they seem to have ordered from and hope they can get that resolved.

Got in some programming time while the weather crew was here. Added a configuration option and behavior I recently noticed was needed and a purely visual change that probably nobody else would have cared about.

None of the morning customers have expressed condolences regarding today's television appearance so I guess things went fine.

Probably only interesting for people in SE Wisconsin, but TMJ4 is sending a crew out to report the weather from my shop this morning. If anybody wants to see that, you can watch from 5-7AM at https://www.tmj4.com/live