Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Don't steal pet cats.

She has food, but...

I tired out the cat.

My sister is also doing a daily cat visit. Comparing notes, the cat behaves better for me.

BTW, if anybody wants to contribute to the ongoing development of Typica (free software for coffee roasting companies), it's possible to do that any time at https://typica.us/payment.html

Planning to set up an instance so I tossed a little money at this. I apparently still remember enough from my high school French classes to read the confirmation email.

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

#peertube #crowdfunding

Redistributed pillow fluff.

I'm supposed to be taking this week off to catch up on home maintenance but I ended up working almost a full shift today anyway.

This cat I've been visiting is normally very quiet. Today when I walked in she sat up and opened her mouth as if to greet me, but no sound came out. Contrast with my cat who makes many varied loud vocalizations.

Cat sat on me during today's visit. Unlike the cat I live with, this one likes to stay just out of petting range.

The place I wanted to go for lunch was closed for vacation. Choice #2 screwed up my order.

Cat wants pizza

Looks like some nice improvements in the new Qt release. http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/05/22/qt-5-11-released/

My cat decided to point all her parts in different directions.

Too much cat time today. Need allergy meds.

Daily cat visit finished. Back at home with my cat.

Switched my living room over to LED bulbs now that I can buy those locally in a shape that doesn't look stupid in the fixture. Thankfully that hasn't been an issue in most of the house.

The last time a company wanted to hire me for something similar there were 2 things that they never wanted to go into specifics on: defining a project scope and financial compensation. Needless to say, that project never went anywhere (no, I'm not going to build you something custom that you're going to lock up as proprietary technology while not getting paid to do the work).

My main paying side job right now is going well. So far the client hasn't gotten spooked at any of the "here's stuff I don't know", "here are areas where you probably want to bring in someone else to work with me because I lack these skills", or "here's how much money I want". They're providing useful feedback but not micromanaging and we seem to be on the same page regarding what the deliverables should be for something that's interesting for me to work on.