Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Teller at the credit union drive through looked at my written instructions, verbally confirmed correctly what I wanted, proceeded to deposit to the wrong account. (also one of my accounts so I can just do a transfer through their web site, but I shouldn't have to)

Accountant is coming out tomorrow so of course I got the tax planner in an email today. Related: apparently password protected PDFs are a thing and Okular handles them just fine.

The shop is a little bit understaffed today so I'm theoretically bar help, but business is also on the slow side so I'm spending most of the time doing book editing.

A customer is recharging his wheelchair in my shop because the medical place down the street wouldn't let him. He offered to pay for the electricity, but I figure it's no different than customers charging their phones or laptops or plugging in their sewing machines, which was very common back when I had in store seating (the sewing machine thing less so since the fabric store across the street turned into a beauty salon, but I used to have people doing their homework for classes last minute).

Dear spammers, please stop trying to sell me SEO. It's never gonna happen.

Went into my iPass account to swap in the new (to me) car for the old one since I'm finally finishing up with getting the old one sold today. Oddly, the transponder was on the account but there wasn't a car listed at all. Still need to get some replacement fasteners to mount that properly. My last planned trip to Chicago got cancelled and I don't have another one scheduled so there's no urgency to that. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting stuck with someone else's toll.

For context, a large tea order for me would still only be a few hundred pounds.

Placed a small tea order. (For me small is 35 pounds)

Error screen wasn't helpful, but going back through the login and lying to say I forgot the password let me fix it before the wait on hold was done.

Bank wouldn't let my sister into the shop's account and wouldn't talk to her because my name is the primary one on the account (never mind that her name is also there) so instead of the problem being fixed (web site says password expired but doesn't offer any way to do anything about that) I'm now on hold for an estimated 30 minutes.

Layout for some parts of the book has become an absolute mess (figures and side bars), but it's pointless to worry about that until the text is right so I'm ignoring that for now.

Continuing to slog through book edits. Some day that will be finished and I can move on to a different project.

I picked the pink seelie because if I'm going to have a pet floaty glowy blob thing following me around on adventures I want it to be seen. The pink one has the best contrast against the rest of the world.

Now I have to wonder why that button was so well hidden on a relatively inaccessible place. Are we living in the world of Max Headroom where the off switch is an illegal feature that needs to be hidden?

Stopped at my mother's house after work to do tech support on her television. The screen was black. The remote was unresponsive. Started feeling around for some control on the TV itself and found a power button positioned half an inch back on the underside such that you have to tilt the set back to fit a finger there. Pressing that resolved the issue.

Someone should revive this game but scrap the story and instead make it literally just a completed version of the Insurrection Alpha holonovel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_%28video_game%29

Laptop storage space is now down to only about 1TB. That'll still last a while, but that means it's about 2/3 full now.

Plot twist idea: a really grindy mini game where if you get to the top rank in that you're locked into a bad ending for screwing around playing games instead of getting on with the main quest.