Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I'm on another train

I'm on a train.

Dropped the cat off with my sister. This was not the cat's plan for the evening.

There is a bit more blend reworking needed before I leave on vacation than initially anticipated.

The cat would like her daily 36 hours of cuddles now please.

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oh, Playstation stars is back on. looks like it counted all the trophies I got in the past month+ it's been down.

While I was in there I also added some other related features that would have been nice to have on a few occasions.

Adding some new functionality to the shop's web site on the staff facing side of things. Since USPS is threatening to get rid of the interface we use to ship orders that don't come in through the web site and the replacement is terrible, I'm adding a page where staff can just get shipping quotes and generate labels through our own site instead. That's shaping up to be faster and simpler for staff than even USPS's old thing since it's tailored exactly to my company's needs.

Today's work seems to be all phone calls and emails and similar. Fortunately I have other staff who can do the production line work that I'd rather be doing and the communications side of things needed doing.

I've been trying to spread out the vacation related purchases, but I think I've now covered everything the cat will need so my sister shouldn't have to buy anything for the cat while I'm out of town. Also started on the supply of travel snacks, but I'll want a little more variety on those.

This morning the cat let it be known that she didn't want the food in her bowl. She wanted me to open the new bag of food instead.

Forgot to set a timer and accidentally burned part of dinner. Most of the meal was salvageable at least.

@gnomon Not nearly enough, especially in the political class.

Paying some bills sooner than I would ordinarily. I've got a few weeks of vacation coming up and will not be in town, so I need to take care of anything that would be coming due while I'm out of town before I leave.

Checked and discovered that some of today's bug fixing are also issues in the current release version. That adds a bit of incentive to get a new release out sooner rather than later.

Got far enough into the implementation to start finding the bugs that would have shown up as errors sooner in a more sensible language.

Continuing work on the next CRUCS update. While the feature I'm working on is pretty invasive in the number of places where changes are needed, I've put in some helpers that make the new code in those places shorter and easier to read.

@mhoye I'd link you to it but it looks like the group that put it out has removed it from their site. It was a promo track for Yoiyami Dreamer.