Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat is talkative tonight.

Changed out my falling apart backpack for a lightly used bag I got at an event to use for carrying the laptop around. It's not ideal, but good enough until I decide what I want to do.

Getting in some good book edits today. While I do think that taking this release once it's ready approach will result in a better and more useful book, I am eager to have this done so I can move on to the next project.

I know nothing about this game, but the trophies look like an interesting mix. https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/11037-crypto-by-powgi

Another online order came in today. Normally I'd pack that up and carry it to the post office. There's a chute through the wall where boxes with postage can be dropped without having to interact with other humans, but that lobby is no longer open 24/7 and is closed today so there's no point to dealing with that today except to take the money a day earlier so I'll just wait. If more orders come in I'd rather deal with them all at once.

Drinking a tasty coffee from Yemen today. Prior to getting this, it had been a long time since I'd been able to source a good Yemeni coffee. War is bad for supply chains.

Someone lost their phone outside my shop a couple days ago and it would be nice if someone called them so we can figure out how to get that back to them. Instead we just know that people ring their doorbell a lot because they have some "smart" doorbell abomination that notifies the phone every time that happens.

cat: *hunts pie*

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.