Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Ordered a replacement front bearing for my production roaster. It has stopped accepting grease. That seems to happen every few years but it's an easy fix. For some reason the rear bearing lasts a lot longer.

I have an old neglected managed server/domain. Thinking about moving the domain out and redirecting to a cheaper unmanaged server, maybe setting up https://writefreely.org/ on it. Not today, of course, but sometime within the next year before the plan renews. Enough stuff points at it that I don't want to just let that vanish, but it's not well used either.

If you go to https://typica.us you'll see the banner at the top letting visitors know that $100 was contributed toward ongoing development of the software in April. That means $0 for May, June, July, August, September, and month to date October. Lack of money does make it hard for me to budget time toward working on the next release and nobody has contributed code in the 12ish years that this has been publicly available either.

Got an email today where my usual response would be that what they want to try hasn't been done to my knowledge, with too many unknowns for me to want to have anything to do with remote troubleshooting, and their best bet would probably be to just fly me in to look it over and see what I can figure out, but where they're at is under a level 4 travel advisory so I'm not offering that.

Playing an alternative bird game

What's all this about honking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnaYGzxiwE

To put it in perspective, my first laptop was a Toshiba T1600 left over from outfitting a school library (these were already obsolete at the time so the kids who repaired the donated machines also got to keep one, 286, 3 color display) and I'd be totally fine lugging something of similar size.

One of these days I'd kind of like to build my own laptop, make it 1-2 inches thick, put a really good keyboard on it. If I stall long enough I can probably just use desktop components.

You know those bags of assorted cookies that come out during the holidays? The cookie factories need to do a variation that's all cylinders. The cylinder shaped cookies are the best tasting ones in the mix and there's never enough of them in the bag.

#caturday

It's 11:54PM. Time to make toast.

Worked out a new decaf espresso blend today to take advantage of recent arrivals.

Fairies are strategizing. Please wait warmly.

No more Visionary Fairies in Shrine

Drafted another chunk of book this morning. This past week I've been creatively non-productive so it feels good to get something done.