Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat is trying to fall off the couch.

Grocery store had a pack of kids awooing near the life size inflatable lions.

Printer: I'm ready to print.
Windows: LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU!

There's a Windows machine at the shop that pretty much only gets used to print labels, but it's so bad at it. If the printer ever reports any kind of error condition, the computer is like, "I tried and I'm never trying again." Out of paper? There's no way a printer could ever recover from that. If you can find the right service to restart, it'll notice that it can resume printing, but it's faster to just reboot the whole computer and I'm just like, how do you screw up printing that badly?

This mostly only happens over the phone because the beard is usually enough of a hint for people to get it right in person, but the name should also be a pretty good clue if you're going to make a guess. (Or, you know, you could just not use gendered pronouns where they're not needed or if you must, ask?)

Well, it's been a while since I was mis-gendered, but that just happened. Ugh.

Laptop screen bezel has cracked. It's obnoxious because the computer part of the computer is still fully adequate for my needs, but the build quality of everything surrounding that is apparently not so great. I've already replaced a fan (which required multiple rounds of tech support because they kept sending the same wrong fan instead of the one that failed) and I'm using an external keyboard because I can't type on the built in one unless I got that replaced.

Looks like the local food safety management classes and testing have resumed. My sister and I want to renew ours. We don't technically need to because we've encouraged and paid for employees to also get that, but I think it's better if we also continue to hold that cert.

The new lock has a chunkier inside lever that I like better anyway.

Today in passive agressive, changed the lock on my front door because my mother can't understand that I don't want her letting herself in whenever she wants despite my telling her that repeatedly. It always freaks the cat out when I'm not there and her idea of cleaning is my idea of moving stuff away from where I know it is to somewhere she won't remember or throwing away still perfectly good food I wanted to eat.

Cleaned inside a keyboard this morning. It was pretty bad.

Good month for video royalties from Amazon. 13 cents.

The phone gets really hot when the cat sleeps on it while it's charging. I should probably not let her do that.

candy corn on the cob

I need a hug. Fortunately, I live with a cat that likes hugs.

Had to reply to a customer's email that the product they wanted me to recommend is not something that actually exists.

My laptop bag has been working on falling apart for a while now and I think it's about time to replace that. I like the fabric on the current one, though, so I should try to pull the stitches and see about turning it into other stuff once I have a replacement.