Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got a call from my sister this morning because she couldn't get her car to start in the grocery store parking lot. The symptoms sounded suspicious to me so I offered to drive over. Had just pulled into a parking spot and was about to go looking for her when a call came in letting me know that her car started, so apparently the fix was me getting within about 100 feet of the vehicle. It hasn't happened with a car before but that seems to happen with me and technology a lot.

It's been about 25 years since I did anything in Tcl, but it looks like everything I want for that is already installed on this computer so yeah, I guess that's my plan for after dinner. Slam out at least a start for one of the things I want and look up what I need for that as I go. (I probably have a book I can dig out)

(I don't expect any of these things to be particularly useful to others and am unlikely to share them)

Considering relearning enough of Tcl for some simple tools that I'd like to have but don't really want to bother with doing it in C++ and also would like something nicer to iterate on than just a shell script. There are a few small things I want that I think this would be a good fit.

There's a lot of rain. Also the cat is demanding cuddles.

Lined up another teaching gig for a few days next month.

The cat has been lured to my side with the smell of mint ice cream.

The cat is being kind of blobby.

Wearing my raycats baseball shirt today. It glows in the dark, much like the cats who are supposed to warn our distant post-apocalyptic descendants about leaking nuclear waste that they should run away from.

I also have a bit of roasted coffee from a pre-ship sample of my next Ethiopian coffee. As a press the fragrance is amazing. There's a mild bergamot note that goes well with the fruit and floral notes in the flavor. Looking forward to getting the arrival sample.

Finally getting around to tasting the other gift coffee. This is also a little lighter than I personally would take the coffee, but it's quite nice. A bit more intensity of flavor than the other one, a bit lacking in body, but I certainly wouldn't complain about this being served to me in a shop.

I have 28GB of RAM free. What's using 300MB of swap?

People on hoyolab are freaking out about my old pyro Qiqi again.

+++++++ (the cat typed this)

Someone moved my calibration weight.

The cat thinks I should spend more time petting the cat.

Looks like full resolution didn't get preserved uploading here. I also posted them here where it's possible to get the full 4K: https://www.hoyolab.com/article/7851733

A couple recent game screenshots that I think might make nice desktop wallpapers if anybody wants those.

Working on blends today. I have the problem that some of the coffees I would normally use that I was expecting to have by now still aren't available so yesterday I tossed together a custom roast of a couple things with the intent of getting certain specific flavor components that are hard to get out of the coffees I have roasted the way they are on the shelf. That test batch isn't great on its own, but did get me exactly what I needed for the blends I'm working on so that's going well.

Brought home a couple bags of coffee that were roasted in Saudi Arabia. As a drip brew, the first one that I'm trying is roasted a little lighter than I would take that personally, but I'd like to try running that in more regionally appropriate brewing styles before sending feedback. I had some of his other stuff on pour over at the event which was quite nice.