Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Did the coffee roasting demo/lecture for the new employee.

There's been so much scam email going around lately claiming to be invoices or late payments or similar where the distinguishing characteristic is that the attached file is an Excel spreadsheet. I haven't investigated to see if that's malware in addition to fraud, but I'm pretty sure I've never gotten a legit bill in the form of an Excel document (not without that at least getting converted to a PDF or something first). I've just been promptly deleting those.

Stayed late at the shop tonight to help my sister paint. The brown wall is now a green wall.

Finished off another roll of paper at the coffee roaster today. I have a cheap receipt printer hooked up there which produces tags to follow each batch of coffee I roast so I don't have to hand write those and can unambiguously look up data associated with each batch.

I have two low volume mailing lists that get used to update people on different projects (one to notify of new releases of some software I wrote, another for updates on the book I'm working on). Today I was curious about what kind of overlap there is between those lists and it turns out, not much. 5 email addresses are subscribed to both lists.

I have electricity again. Two breakers flipped when that went out.

cat: the electricity stopped
cat: the human is sleeping through the outage
cat: maybe the human would like to wake up and pet the cat

The cat thinks I should be awake for the current power outage.

Remember that wine I got with the $100 off a case coupon? I think today is a good day to start drinking that.

editing

https://video.typica.us/ is now running PeerTube 2.2.0.

Had a very strange conversation with someone whose car was involved in some kind of accident, he doesn't remember the date that happened, but he does remember that some lady had called in a tea order that day and wanted to know if our cash registers could tell him the date that happened. The answer is no. That's not how our cash registers work.

Today the car is doing that thing where it picks up two stations at the same time and cuts between them depending on how fast the car is moving. It leads to mash ups like

Guy reading an ad: For more information,
Terry Gross: this is Fresh Air.

The house has cooled off nicely. There are too many cops out. Time for cat hugs.

One of today's spam messages with broken English and probably some kind of scam that I can't even tell what they're trying to sell me on had a physical mailing address at the bottom to try to look more legitimate. It's the address of the White House, so definitely some kind of scam that will be promptly deleted.

Spending a little time beautifying the purchase page for my upcoming book. Everything is in test mode and hidden right now but it should be functional for most of the world, supports the security features that are more common outside of the US, goes to a working page where you'll be able to download the book, sends an email receipt that has the link both as something pretty and something with the full URL spelled out so someone who prints their receipts has a thing they can type that works.

Apparently the fix was to jiggle the outdoor breaker back and forth a bunch.

I have a working air conditioner at home again.

Tomorrow I start training a new person. One of the few good things about the current set of reduced hours is that I can do stuff like that after the shop is closed instead of being in the way of other people actively trying to do the job.

Plan for after work:

1. Hug cat
2. Prepare and eat dinner
3. Work on the book