Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Battery chargy thingy seems to work well.

Picked up a big battery so I don't have to worry about losing GPS on the road trip. The cat wants me to carry her around the house.

Set up a couple new email addresses for the shop. One receives all new incoming orders from the web site and is the reply-to for customers who place an order that way. That can also send so if someone does reply a real human might see that and can interact. The other is a Bcc recipient on receipts for diagnostic purposes. I'm hoping to enable ordering Sunday or Monday. The work is done, I just want to give the other half of ownership a chance to ask questions first.

I knew my mother was not a heavy email user but I was doing some work on the mail server today and discovered that her account has neither sent nor received a single message since January, 2017. I'm impressed at how well she's stayed off the spam lists.

Someone brought their lute into the shop today. I told her she should keep the case open so people can drop money in.

I would have had a cat video up last night but PeerTube doesn't like something about video straight from my phone (the site starts throwing 502s and eventually the initial transcoding job fails). Nothing Handbrake can't fix so all that means is you're getting a cat video today instead.

Hope to get a new video out Monday-ish. There's not much that I need to do to finish that.

I was going to suspend a spam follower but it looks like their instance's mods took care of it for me before I got around to it. #TheSystemWorking

Obtained a fresh bottle of cherry cider.

Have lawyered up because the city is trying to sue me into homelessness over a problem of their own invention which everybody agrees should never have been referred to the court in the first place.

My lawyer thinks she can just make this go away and maybe find some grant money to cover some of what I've already spent dealing with this but if it goes to trial the mayor is willing to testify for me, which I think says a lot about just how screwed up the current situation is.

It's always nice when industry people stop by the shop for a visit. Had a good conversation with Phyllis Johnson over some coffee from Burundi.

Good morning. Pet the cat.

There's also a new fairy with bird puzzle by the same artist who did the dragon witch.

There's a glut of 1000 piece puzzles now after someone dropped off a lot of those. This eco-friendly bird puzzle looks like a good one to try.

Between phone calls of varying importance (some not at all, others extremely) and working with a new person who started training today, I've done far too much talking.

Getting a visit from a professional colleague tomorrow. We've cupped coffees together in Ethiopia and she's good at finding nice African coffees that I want to buy. It's been a while since our last chat so it'll be nice to catch up.