Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Marked a box of part. It's a controller where the NO terminals have turned into NO except sometimes C at random with no indication other than PV continuing to go up well past SV. Fine for doing short communications code tests, not so fine for keeping in production equipment.

Supplier web site was still down today. Have ordered from elsewhere because this is ridiculous.

That any single person walking away should be such a big deal is proof of my point: that we need to minimize the barriers to participation and have some mechanism for identifying the next generation of people to do this work, getting them the opportunities and mentoring so they can be effective when they step into the role I left, and providing incentive to do important work. The current direction has abandoned all of these.

Today was the first meeting of the committee I left since that resignation. I wasn't there but it seems that they spent a lot of time talking about my letter and that my position is strongly supported at the committee level. Hopefully incoming leadership will not be stubborn about the current path. If the current situation isn't corrected soon I doubt I'll be the last person to leave.

Sometimes the cat turns on the air purifier's oscilate feature. I've never seen her do that.

Another day, another fail2ban rule.

Day 5. A supplier's web site is still "down for maintenance". Nobody has considered that it might be a good idea to put a phone number on the page to continue taking orders that way.

*unlike Sakamoto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RWQdPLo9k

Put down fresh glue traps at home. I hope the cat is smart enough to stay out of them.

Yesterday someone saw the sign about the $830ish we raised during our New Year's Day fundraiser for the food bank and decided to push that over $1000 by writing a $170 check. There was another check not counted in that total for $100 and the shop also rounded the cash total up to $1000. It's a good way to start the year.

@Gargron Start stopwatch, rehearse presentation.

Today's mail contained my 2018 tax organizer. I used to do my own taxes but since taking ownership in the shop my taxes have gotten complicated enough that it makes sense to just pay my accountant to deal with that.

Another day, another day of not being able to order from one of my suppliers because their web site is down. I'm going to guess that whoever blew that up isn't working the weekend.

#cat