Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Had to send an email with a request to forward it to IT because their company's web form sends an email to them not from their own account, but spoofs the address of the person filling out the form which their mail server then rightly rejects for failing SPF policy, then mails the error back to the person they were impersonating.

I'm roasting the last batch of my limited edition coffee from Bali today. Anybody who wanted to try that should get in their orders now as I'll be taking it off the web site no later than tomorrow.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Went out to get coffee and buy groceries (I was down to pretty much just bagels and chocolate) and came home to find a scrap truck blocking my driveway. Called the company, which didn't seem very useful, but also found the driver for another vehicle who was quite foul mouthed but otherwise pleasant and helpful and got the guy who shouldn't have parked there to move his truck promptly.

The cat is not a pinball wizard.

Is there a contemporary equivalent of Disney's Gargoyles in the sense of it being where a bunch of the actors from Star Trek get to work together on something non-Trek?

Big yawn with cat.

Last night's dream had baseball, but the infield was about 1/4 scale and the outfield was about 3x scale. I was confused about why someone would build it like that.

The cat has informed me that it's time to hug the cat. I've been home a little less than usual the past few days due to work.

Roasted a small batch of the limited edition coffee from Bali to top up the shelf. I've got 1, maybe 2 more batches of that left to roast and then it's gone.

Lap cat is lap catting.

I don't know what list I'm on that causes this, but I keep getting emails from Chinese companies, each asking if I'm interested in some overly specific piece of manufacturing equipment (different emails asking about my interest in different machines) and I just can't imagine that the conversion on those campaigns is very good.

Popped open the laptop case to double check that I had an empty slot to pop in another drive since I'm running out of space and don't really want to offload stuff to external storage right now. Scooped a bunch of dust out while I was in there.

Car started today. It hasn't for the past few days due to excess coldness.

Snacks, cat, and another blanket.

I expect to have the Internet again on Monday morning. Until then I'll be on phone tethering which isn't that awful these days, but I'll be glad to have a wire again.

2nd attempt at contacting the Internet company went a lot better. I was passed through to a human relatively promptly who was happy to believe that restarting the modem isn't going to help when a tree fell through the line and visibly severed it and they really will need to send someone out to put in a new cable to the house.

House is just about back up to a normal temperature downstairs at least. A blanket and a lap cat is more than good enough. Upstairs is still a bit cold. Tomorrow I'll have to call to get Internet hooked back up.

I've been informed that I have power and heat at home again, so if the roads aren't too bad I'll probably move my cat back home tonight.