Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Apparently it's a thing these days for young people to not delete voicemails they like so they can listen to them again later. If your phone has a headphone jack, you can get a male-male mini jack. Plug one end into the headphone jack on your phone, the other end into the microphone jack on your computer, and you can record that to a file (which you can even move back onto your phone if you really want to). Then you can delete the voicemail so you can get new messages you might like even more.

If you put your phone number on your resume, maybe set up your voicemail (alternately, make sure it isn't full) so people can leave you a message?

I've just noticed that I forgot my phone at home today. Hope nobody is trying to contact me on that.

Once this is done it needs to go out to an international panel for feedback to see if further editing is required and then at the end of the year it'll go out for translation into 6-7 other languages.

Finally got a good start on some editing (actually a rewrite, but I'll call it editing). I need to go back and re-make some graphs and double check some formulae as well as bring in content from a different document that should be consolidated.

The cat is hunting something imaginary.

Blatantly ripping off @Taweret@octodon.social and also making shrimp fried rice.

voice on radio: down there in the mountains
me: that's not how mountains work

Since closing the account and unsubscribing from emails apparently does nothing to stop LinkedIn from sending those messages I've set up a filter on my end.

Today's product development work was challenging. I've had entirely too much coffee on not nearly enough food. Time for lunch.

It's nice to have hot water again.

The resource monitor in the task bar does not seem to constrain drawing to itself as can be seen when it rarely reports some ridiculously huge billions(?) of percent CPU utilization. This happens when the system is not particularly active and I would not be surprised if this were some kind of underflow bug. Whenever that happens it draws the number in red.

I should do some small projects to practice sewing. It's been a long time since I did any and that skill has probably atrophied. Maybe dolls. I can give those away easily enough if they're not awful.

New pipes and valve. Both hoses got replaced instead of waiting for the other hose to develop the same problem.

The plumber is going to put one of the good valves that I like in to replace the one I snapped while trying to shut off water to just the water heater so the next time something goes wrong with this I'll have an easier time with that.

She's in her preferred hiding from strangers spot behind a chair in a corner upstairs.

I should make turkey sandwiches while I wait to have water again.

Plumber is here. The cat has run off to hide upstairs, which is probably the best thing for everybody right now. If she doesn't come out before I go back to work I'll have to go looking for her because sometimes she hides in places that she has a hard time getting out of. Normally she has the good sense to avoid those places, but that's not always the case when strangers are in the house.

Coffee (about 800 pounds) finally arrived a couple hours past the delivery window. Plumber called to find out when he can show up as I was unloading that so everything is getting crunched into the least convenient time, but at least it's getting done. I'm very hungry.

Trying to find out what's happening with the coffee that's still not here. Unfortunately, there are no good freight companies anymore and sometimes you'll have a delivery window and the driver just doesn't feel like doing his job and skips some stops and there's never any communication to let people know so they can get on with their lives.