Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Just got a very generous donation toward work on some software as thanks for some emailed tech support.

The cat knocked over some old lab equipment. The stuff is fine, the cat is fine, and she's starting to calm down from the excitement. I should really pack that back up until I need it again.

Ordered more coffee. I'll need to place another order from a different supplier in about 2 or 3 weeks.

Tasting a test batch of what's going to be the next Decaf French Roast. I'm out of the coffee I was using for this previously and I knew from previous work that a similar roasting plan would result in something rather lacking. So instead I went for what I'm pretty sure is the fastest I've ever pushed to that roast level, though a fair amount of that is front loaded as it's a relatively dry decaf.

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Had an issue on the laptop today. Turns out the problem was DNS because of course it was. Temporary fix is in place, but I'll have to go looking for the real solution later.

The cat is currently fascinated with the shadows cast by outdoor bird activity.

So far today I've gotten photos of small dogs and giant coffee roasters. I'll call that a good start.

Trimmed the beard. My face now has less protection from the cat but it needed to be done.

Probably a good thing I did grocery shopping, both because the cat was otherwise at risk of running out of food, but also because I noticed while paying for the food that I'd left my phone on the charger at work (it had gone to 1% battery). Work is on the way home from food so I could pick that up instead of needing to turn around and go back (realistically I would have just left it there and people would just have to send email which I prefer anyway).

Needed to nope out of a dream. The house had been done up as a horror puzzle game and while I wasn't a player one feature was particularly stomach turning.

Today was supposed to be a work from home day but I popped in to do one batch in the roaster and then stayed to do some equipment maintenance.

Email from a theater says it's been a while since they've seen me (almost 2 decades by my recollection), which they should not be surprised by considering there's an ocean between us.

Drying off. Rain started after I decided to walk to where I vote instead of driving. Also, there's a cat in my lap.

Reading through the Qt 6.5 LTS release announcement. Most of it isn't relevant to anything that I do, but it looks like the QML Qt Quick Controls TableView got almost everything on my wish list (there's at least one area where the widget based version provided a far superior API that's not called out so I might have to keep my kludge for that but I'll look into it), so that's fantastic. I'll want to start using that right away.

Saw a news story that the whitehouse will not be buying staffers little checkmarks, which is of course the right decision, but it doesn't go far enough. It should take the money saved not buying checkmarks and set up a misskey server for them to post on instead.

Made a tiny bit of progress on a project. It's a bit farther along than I expected to get mainly because I'd forgotten that I'd already done a good chunk of what I thought I needed to do next.

The cat wants to help me eat dinner. She's not trying to eat the food herself, just wants to curl up in my lap while I'm trying to eat.

There's a cat in my lap.

Opened up a project I'd been working on and saw a bunch of errors. Somehow one of my headers did not contain what I thought it contained and just had some autogenerated boilerplate that I needed exactly none of and now I'm wondering if I just hallucinated writing that code or what. Easy fix at least.