Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Looking forward to seeing my cat again.

It's probably for the best that I'm heading home soon. Something is causing some intestinal distress. Best guess is a bottle that I couldn't read at all but had the right taste/texture to be some kind of blueberry flavored milk drink.

New VFiS: https://mangadex.org/chapter/471377/1 #touhou

I should have hazelnut ice cream more often.

The dogs continue to multiply. Now appearing in different colors. They seem to be free to come and go as they please.

So far I've been guessing right but it can be hard to tell if you're at the sort of place where you order one thing and get a meal sized amount of food or if you order multiple tiny things to get to a meal. Now that I'm reasonably confident in my chopsticking I tried some more challenging foods for dinner.

Room guard cat talked to me today, let me give it head scritches.

Good dog

There are more dogs here every day.

Their third attempt at shipping the correct replacement part now has a tracking number. It seems to take them a long time between deciding they're going to ship something and actually getting it shipped. As such, I'll still need to wait about a day even after I get home to swap that in (provided it is even the right thing).

My hotel room is now being guarded by this cat. I feel safer already.

Overnight (my current time zone, more reasonable times for senders) I got 3 emails with electronics questions all from different people for unrelated things. I'm usually not the right person for that sort of thing but if I can keep people from burning down their facilities or destroying $$$$ equipment I try to help.

Previous experience suggested that I could only use chopsticks in China. Now I know I can extend that to more of Asia. Maybe I just can't use them in America.

not even root can delete the file because the system has no clue about anything other than the file name.

cursed file

I've never seen -????????? as a file permission before.

Watching international news channels:
Pro: less time spent on whatever Trump is lying about today leaves time for interesting stories.
Con: I'm reminded that I have no clue how Cricket works as a sport.

I may have finally convinced someone that they really and truly have sent the wrong part twice. Hopefully when I get back home there will be an appropriate fan available to swap in. As near as I can tell the chain of communications went:

me->guy on phone who knew what I was talking about
phone guy->California team that didn't but maybe now does
California->RMA dept. which made the mistake twice

Can you just give the guy who answered the phone a box of mailers and some parts? That'd work better