Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat is punching my hip.

Checker while buying milk was having a rough time. Rang up 6 of a thing I only had 2 of and while trying to refund 4 of them rang up another 9. It all got sorted out in the end, but it took a while.

It looks like someone accidentally used my shop's address to subscribe to Vogue. Hope they're able to sort out the error.

The cat was still asleep when I went to work. Got home to find the cat awake but still in exactly the same spot.

Coffee shipment arrived a couple days sooner than expected. Most of the bags this time are pretty plain, but we've got the coffee with the cool frog on the bag back now. Taking a shower break before I get to work on figuring out what I want to do with the new coffees. It's going to be a longer than expected day.

The two people most likely to do the baking at the shop are on vacation so I'm doing that today. One batch of scones might be a little off. I ate one to test it but part way through baking I looked at the timer and noticed that it wasn't running so had to just take my best guess at it. Cranberry bread is taking longer than the recipe indicates to get finished, but that's normal.

Outside is chirping.

The cat has seen me sitting down for dinner and would like to know if I wouldn't rather be petting the cat.

@mike The Ferengi time travel episode had people who were mistakenly identified as Australian, I think.

@wolf480pl @loke @cwebber I was mostly working out of field stations on stuff that didn't require much machete work (at one place I had a military escort who took care of that). Probably the most exhausting from my experience would have been just dealing with the elevation change hiking up out of Cana Field Station, but yeah, it's a harder hike than comparable elevation changes on coffee farms.

Has Chief Quimby ever considered just not bringing a self-destructing message?

I have a tracking number for the next couple thousand pounds of coffee coming in, but the person who usually helps me stack the bags back up might be on vacation when that arrives. I've got enough space that I can do smaller stacks by myself.

Tonight is large headache and cat petting.

Printed out and made notes on a pile of reference materials for what I want to work on tomorrow. I won't finish that work tomorrow, but I have the rough shape of what I want to try first pretty much figured out and I can at least see if that idea is a horrible mistake before putting too much effort into it.

@cwebber The rainforests are, for the most part, not that dangerous. You aren't in the food chain, though that fear was exploited by the prison system on Coiba. If you got sent to that island you'd be put in a different camp depending on which gang you belonged to so people didn't try to escape much first because they were afraid of nature and second because they didn't want to accidentally end up in a rival gang's camp. (they were working on getting rid of the prison camps when I was there)

@cwebber Fun fact: the product labels for my coffee, tea, and chai concentrate are all made with XeLaTeX.

I'd like to see her do better.

Cat turning to look at me judgmentally when I lose my combo in a rhythm game.

Decided to plug in the last version of the code written before going to sleep instead of testing out the intermediate version. I've gone from a choice of correct functioning at 100% of a core or excessive latency at 12% down to both fast and correct with the new code not profiling as significant and the fan not spinning up. I'll take the win.

There were a couple things about the new code that were bugging me so I reorganized it again. Pretty sure I've gotten it down to as correct and efficient as possible, but I still need to wait until I get into the shop to test that. Hoping to see much lower CPU utilization.