Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

While I was away, it seems that at least one mouse moved into the house. Cat was hunting that when I left for work. I should investigate further and deploy the traps again when I get home.

With a working CPU fan, the system runs about 20C cooler under light loads, the keyboard is no longer vibrating, and there's no buzzing sound. Those last two problems (along with the whole sometimes the fan just fails and the whole system powers down) have made it challenging to work on stuff (no new vlog episode last month because of this).

Time to roast some coffee.

New fan installed. So far, so good.

Third attempt at getting the replacement fan looks like it might be the right thing. It took 27 days to get to this point, during which my laptop has been difficult to use. Have you ever typed on a vibrating keyboard? It doesn't take long for your fingertips to go numb.

Retrieved the cat.

New fan should be arriving tomorrow. Hopefully it's the right one (the last 2 times it was the same wrong part). It's gotten to the point that I keep a small piece of metal that's thin enough to go through the vent to give the fan a bit of a manual spin so the computer doesn't just shut itself off after a couple minutes.

One of my afternoon staff called in sick so I'm covering her shift instead of picking up my cat. Not coming into work while sick is the right call and I hope she's feeling better soon.

Landed at ORD

Book store in the airport has a surprisingly large selection of Cardcaptor Sakura jigsaw puzzles. I bought a new notebook instead. You can never have too many notebooks.

The end of a passage

answering email while sitting in an art installation

Today I pet a dog. I think one of its eyes probably didn't work, but that didn't seem to be bothering it any.

banana chips

Looking forward to seeing my cat again.

It's probably for the best that I'm heading home soon. Something is causing some intestinal distress. Best guess is a bottle that I couldn't read at all but had the right taste/texture to be some kind of blueberry flavored milk drink.

New VFiS: https://mangadex.org/chapter/471377/1 #touhou

I should have hazelnut ice cream more often.

The dogs continue to multiply. Now appearing in different colors. They seem to be free to come and go as they please.