Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Productive evening of coding, but I should get some sleep instead of continuing.

Presses backspace on the laptop keyboard, gets a "6" instead. Right, that's why I use an external keyboard.

There's a bruise on my arm that I'm not sure where it came from but it kind of looks like the cat punched me while I was asleep.

I wonder who so many Chinese companies have me confused with that they're glad to know is in the market for such an odd range of products. A lot of that is stuff like fasteners, freight services, stuff that would be assembled into other stuff, but every so often I get something like custom full scale animatronic dinosaurs. Like am I in charge of some kind of illicit sweatshop hidden under a major theme park staffed by naughty children who abused the mascots?

Why am I watching old videos from The Onion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

Cat: *sees me coming in with groceries*
Also cat: *sits right in the middle of the path to the kitchen*

Deleted 41.6GB of old remote media attachments from the local Mastodon server. I should probably set it up to do that automatically from time to time rather than waiting for things to break because the disk is full.

The cat has informed me that it's time to hug the cat.

That's a totally normal thing to start doing at 11PM, right?

I want to make cinnamon rolls.

I'm still upset by what they did to the best restaurant they had. Kicked them out right after they finished a contractually required renovation because a new "anchor" store wanted most of the square footage. The big store didn't last nearly as long as that restaurant had been there and the place that replaced them in the now smaller space wasn't anywhere near as good. (The owners opened up a non-mall location and did fine with that, but it's too far away for me to go there for lunch.)

This morning I took my mother to the mall so she could get help from a phone store. We don't have a good mall (shopping trends aside the management seemed to be doing what it could to kill it for a long time) but it was at least less depressing than the last time I was there. Don't get me wrong, it's still mostly empty, but the mall walkers are back so there are other people there.

They said they'd tag us when they posted the picture to I don't think they said where but I doubt I'll see that because I'm only on fedi.

I am now the owner of one of those giant fake checks. The last time someone came around with a giant fake check it was a whiteboard and thus reusable, but apparently those are really expensive and it was more economical to just have a bunch of separate ones printed (also some people like to keep the giant check). They also had one for the pizza place across the street.

Tomorrow's schedule includes a photo op with the mayor and one of those giant fake checks. The shop is getting some grant money. The city's original plan was to do this as a loan program, but there was enough uncertainty at the time that every small business owner looked at that and said, "this looks like a trap," and stayed away from it.

Is there a word for a male Karen or is Karen gender neutral?

Helped some neighbor kids while taking out the trash. They lost a toy in a tall bush and I guess I looked tall enough to fish that out for them and I was so I did.

Hello

It's 3:19AM and on the one hand I want to keep working on the code I'm writing but on the other hand I should really get some sleep.

Time to bust out the basic statistics.