Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

When will the Internet repair tech arrive in relation to the appointment window?

The cat is insisting on hugs. It's warm.

(old Internet wire was broken by part of the neighbor's tree falling through it)

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'll be doing the baking for the shop (first 2 people in line for that job are both taking some vacation time and I honestly like doing that job every now and then) so an early morning, then I have an evening appointment for someone to replace the Internet wire running to the house which I apparently need to be present for.

The phone menu doesn't seem to have an option for "I can see the broken cable and someone needs to come out and replace that." So no wired Internet until the evening after tomorrow.

Turns out Internet access has not been restored at home because a neighbor's tree branch fell on and snapped the cable in half.

Time for coffee.

I'm always kind of surprised at how well the phone tethering works for gaming, even though I know enough about how that works under the hood that I really shouldn't be.

I've received 2 emails letting me know that Internet service at my house is down. (Phone still has Internet and tethering works, but will get really slow if I need to use that too much.)

UPDATE: While typing the above, I got a text message letting me know they think I have Internet at home again. I'm at work and haven't set up anything that would let me check that.

The rain was a bit too hard for me to want to be roasting coffee in (that's a rare problem for me to have) so it looks like I'll be staying late to get that done after the shop closes.

O HAI, I found my cat in a video game.

Once upon a time, a syrup company had one called Vanilla, but they didn't have one called French Vanilla (because there's absolutely nothing French about vanilla), but coffee shops were having a problem because gas stations were doing something named a "French Vanilla Cappuccino" and people were apparently going into places that offered a real cappuccino and refusing to order the vanilla one because they wanted French vanilla. So they made a new French Vanilla SKU but put the same thing in it.

The cat was a little gassy this morning.

I guess it's time to get hugs from the cat.

So someone is working on that disc goes in the funnels game that everybody was addicted to in that episode of TNG for Apple's HMD thing, right?

Got a pizza and now the cat has decided to climb into my lap.

Got donuts today. I still have a couple left to eat later.

Reminder that in the 24th century, the only place baseball is played is the planet where Kirk had to remember how to make gunpowder while fighting a guy in a lizard suit. It's unknown if they use a pitch clock.

Today's notable spam is a message that's half in Japanese from a domain not credibly associated crypto-currency claiming I can get an amount of bitcoin which at current exchange rates would be valued at a few hundred million dollars. Link in the message is to a completely unrelated domain from the sender with a .xyz TLD. Not clicking the link, but if anybody wants to send me a few hundred million dollars without laundering it through a scam first, you can do that here: https://typica.us/

Registration for my favorite trade event of the year just opened. That means I need to sort out if I can arrange things so I can go to that. I've already done a bit of searching when it comes to the travel arrangements (the suggested options are terrible from a cost and travel time perspective, but I've found some better options). I haven't been asked to teach anything this year, so I'd just be a normal attendee for a change.