Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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I've never seen -????????? as a file permission before.

Watching international news channels:
Pro: less time spent on whatever Trump is lying about today leaves time for interesting stories.
Con: I'm reminded that I have no clue how Cricket works as a sport.

I may have finally convinced someone that they really and truly have sent the wrong part twice. Hopefully when I get back home there will be an appropriate fan available to swap in. As near as I can tell the chain of communications went:

me->guy on phone who knew what I was talking about
phone guy->California team that didn't but maybe now does
California->RMA dept. which made the mistake twice

Can you just give the guy who answered the phone a box of mailers and some parts? That'd work better

With a several day gap I got another update on the support ticket for my defective fan and I have to wonder if I'm being trolled.

The only American channel with news in the hotel room is Fox News. Fortunately the channel selection is decently global so there's superior European and Japanese alternatives available in English. Or there's the channel that's all KPop music videos. That's fine, too.

Cloudy and rainy, but I still managed to get sunburn.

Did some design work for the future of Typica that I'm feeling really good about. Still want to do some semi-functional mocks to get a better sense of if it's the improvement I think it should be.

Went to a little place that serves Indian street food still cooked street-side but with indoor seating, proper utensils, etc. (if you sit at the window you can people watch and watch the owner cook the food). It was good but I swear one of the pieces of music that played was sung around a melody from The Legend of Zelda (you know which one).

The mocha has a surprise scoop of ice cream at the bottom.

Nutella and berry pancakes for breakfast along with a single espresso and an iced mocha with way too much whipped cream.

Luggage didn't arrive on the same flight that I did so the airline delivered it to the hotel.

Airplane footware

(by technically challenging I mean not currently a solved problem as told to me by a few people I know who have done good work to improve the situation in the past couple decades)

I should have made coffee before I left. Excellent coffee brewing in an airplane is technically challenging. At least once I'm on the ground I packed some of the new Kenyan coffee and a travel brew kit (Clever, filters, electric water heater, compact hand grinder). There's also a local roaster within walking distance of the hotel I'm staying at that I hear does a good job.

I thought I'd miss a phone meeting about classes at the event in April but it happened during my layover so I was able to jump in on that. We'll need lots of people helping as station instructors or class logistics support for the 8 roaster focused workshops that are happening. It looks like a solid lineup and I'll be interested to see what some of the newer classes are in more depth.

On the bright side, the gate for my connecting flight was in the same terminal and a short walk. I think the next flight feeds me, which is good as breakfast is wearing off.