Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My father is not doing well against the cancer (which surprised nobody after the 40+ years of smoking). Things could turn around, but my mother is doing her usual calling all the family to see the dying person while they still can thing. On the plus side, I'll get to see my nephew again who I guess is like a proper adult now.

I need to stop working late. I've done that for the past few days and I'll be doing that again today because the work needs to get done. At least I still have half of a giant sandwich left over from lunch so I don't have to worry about dinner.

Why do B2B companies keep thinking it's even remotely acceptable to take credit card information by non-encrypted email? Presumably there aren't enough businesses that realize just how terrible an idea that is.

Are you bread?

Later today I'll be uploading a video with a recipe for a drink that's often described as, "like a pumpkin spice latté, but better." Available to drink all year long.

I probably want to sew the old bag back together. That looks like a repair that I can do.

One of the straps on the bag I've been using to haul laptops broke. I'll have to figure out which bag I'm going to switch to and decide if I want to sew the old bag back together.

I'll be mixing those in with new stuff over the next few weeks. The new stuff will, as usual, go to https://video.typica.us first.

Coffee and Code as a series tends to collect a bunch of topics into a single episode and I've noticed that a lot of people either don't watch the video at all because they're not sure what to expect or they don't watch the whole way through or don't skip past things they're not interested in to later segments so I've decided to also upload excerpts from that series for easier discoverability and access. YouTube only because I don't want to waste the disk space on PeerTube (full eps go there 1st)

Get home, the cat is at the door going, "wahh, the WiFi is down," and of course it is but how does she know?

Cooking up another batch of chai concentrate.

Where does Odo keep his universal translator?

I didn't post the proof of life pictures from my latest trip. Let's fix that now.

The cat just stuck her tongue out at me. Stopped when I went for the camera so you'll just have to take my word for it.

Dinner in the oven, laundry in the machine, cat hugged.

That customer is also getting a hand written note featuring a small sketch of a cat letting them know that they were the first customer to place an order through our web site.