Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat curled up on my feet for a nap

Whoever did the whiteboard for seasonal (except not really because they're available all year long) drinks drew little hearts with text (like the candies), and most of them are fine but there's one that says "fax me" (ugh). I assume these days the candies say "swipe right".

Another 600ish pounds of coffee on the way.

Did takeout Chinese for lunch. The fortune cookie was mis-cut so I have the bottom of one fortune and the top of a different one.

You up this week
a lingering question will be.

The cat is right. I should have just stayed home and played with the cat.

Almost got stuck a couple blocks away from work because I needed to take a wider turn through much to get around two plows, neither of which were bothering to do anything about the street they were on.

It's about time to start working on the next episode of Coffee and Code. There's a viewer question that needs answering and the answer involves graphs. https://video.typica.us/video-channels/coffee_and_code/videos

At least with "player" supporting Carmen now they're no longer the worst player ever, but seriously, the character adds nothing interesting and only serves to remind the viewer of just how pointless anything that happens during the rest of the show really is (because it's just a video game, precluding the possibility of consequences).

Found out which class is immediately after mine in Boston this April. It's a really good pairing because Anne and I tackle some of the same concepts from completely different (but still valid) directions.

Noticed that Netflix has a new Carmen Sandiego cartoon. Sadly, it has the same fatal flaw as the previous one: the existence of "player".

Local plow keeps blocking my driveway.

Evening plan: cat and ice cream

Did a search for a product to see if it existed and the first result was a company selling not at all what I was searching for where the top of their site shows a video that, while it didn't auto-play, the still showed what appeared to be some lady in bed with Satan.

cat

Also had trouble getting back in the driveway today. Now I'm letting the cat give me some heat. She's very good at that.

Finished drafting another chapter. I've got a couple notes on things I'll want to go back to after checking references and calculating statistics. The next chapter is long and I don't think I have it in me to work on that tonight.

Yesterday's handwritten notes are likely to turn into another chapter.

With the snow, business is slow today. Had time to move my latest set of notes into the hybrid outline/draft of the book, fixed a couple typos, and cleaned up some of the existing draft. Hopefully I'll have time to draft a few more pages today.