Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Continuing to slog through book edits. Some day that will be finished and I can move on to a different project.

I picked the pink seelie because if I'm going to have a pet floaty glowy blob thing following me around on adventures I want it to be seen. The pink one has the best contrast against the rest of the world.

Now I have to wonder why that button was so well hidden on a relatively inaccessible place. Are we living in the world of Max Headroom where the off switch is an illegal feature that needs to be hidden?

Stopped at my mother's house after work to do tech support on her television. The screen was black. The remote was unresponsive. Started feeling around for some control on the TV itself and found a power button positioned half an inch back on the underside such that you have to tilt the set back to fit a finger there. Pressing that resolved the issue.

Someone should revive this game but scrap the story and instead make it literally just a completed version of the Insurrection Alpha holonovel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_%28video_game%29

Laptop storage space is now down to only about 1TB. That'll still last a while, but that means it's about 2/3 full now.

Plot twist idea: a really grindy mini game where if you get to the top rank in that you're locked into a bad ending for screwing around playing games instead of getting on with the main quest.

Set up a 2nd party with Ganyu, Sucrose, Xinyan, and Barbara. The first three I haven't played much with yet so they're all under-leveled and under-equipped, but it's still a fun group for general exploration.

me: *logs into service*
service: we've sent a message with a verification code to the email address listed below. It may take a few minutes for the code to arrive
me: why don't you want my money?

Got a lot of marketing services spam yesterday. I assume it's all bot driven and not any real humans because of the blatant lies.

spammer: your recent email newsletters are beautiful
my shop: *has no email newsletter, sends most email in plain text*

Was asked if I wanted to teach a class I suggested they do once we're back to in person classes, but that's one of those where I can stand up in front of a class and muddle through it, but they can get other people who will do a better job with that so I passed along a different name for consideration.

SCA is holding off a week before we decide what I'll teach next. We'll see what other classes get pitched. If it's a repeat of the previous one I'll have to source a coffee for it, figure out the roasting plans, and do a bunch of roasting/packing/shipping to get that to students, but the rest of the class materials just need minor updates. If it's the other one I pitched I don't have to ship stuff but I would have to develop a whole new class.

Skipped Albedo's banner to save for Ganyu. That worked out well for me.

Needed to turn off NPR's special coverage of you probably know what. Thankfully I had the foresight to set up the car's sound system so that Miku was one steering wheel button press away.

Traffic is bad today, mostly because maintenance vehicles are choosing the absolute most obnoxious places to stop that they can possibly find and they're doing that in every part of town all at the same time.

My sister just asked me to use my phone to take a picture of a printout and attach it to an email. The printout was an attachment from an email that arrived on the same computer as the outgoing mail was getting sent from so instead of doing that I suggested that we could instead drag the attachment from the email that came from and drop it in the email she was trying to send so we could just send the original file instead of round tripping through my phone.

The cat was shoving her face into the old clogs I only use for going into the basement.