Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Apparently that hardware that's been delayed for two thirds of a year shipped from Hungary. It's in Germany now.

It'll also be nice to test much faster data rates than I've previously had access to. It's one thing to understand that computers are really fast these days and ought to have the capacity to deal with significantly more data than anybody in the industry is using and being able to say, yeah, I've tested up a few orders of magnitude from anything you're likely to need.

Some hardware that I ordered back in April finally shipped today. I'll need to write some new code to get this working once it arrives, but it should open up some interesting possibilities.

Talkative cat is talkative.

My cat snores. She also likes to sleep near my head.

When you're not sure what the hand tool is called or what it's supposed to be used for but for some reason it's in the tool box and it's the right shape for the problem at hand so you go for it and it works.

Phone is blowing up with likes on an old comment. Thankfully nobody is calling me out on the large, obvious error it contains which I'm not bothering to fix.

Sadly, the new computer doesn't have a full size SD slot and I can't find a USB card reader so I'm copying files to a USB stick so I can move them to a computer where I can copy the files to the SD card so I can get the file to the printer. If I did this more I'd come up with a better solution.

3D printer is doing a test print for the base of some new organizing trays. I need something that's a bit larger than I can print so I want to make sure that the connecting bits to hook two prints together will work nicely. It looks like it should work on the screen, but I'll feel better confirming that with the physical artifact.

Cat sniffing my toes.

There was a giant racoon in the driveway when I got home. It decided to slip under the neighbor's fence once it realized that I intended to park my car.

Got a text message from my out of state sister. Looking through the phone history it looks like I get one per year on or near my birthday.

Commented on a forum with a particularly bad censorship mechanism. I used the word re-assessing and it got redacted to re-ass**sing.

Playing that Kingdom Hearts rhythm game. It's pretty strange, but I guess that's par for the course with this series.

It took some convincing, but I was able to get the cat not to be on my lap while I tried to eat dinner.

Cat bellies make great hand warmers.

Who is the best super hero and why is it Nyamo?

Everybody else can just give up now. This is peak video game fashion.

Tasting production test batches for a medium and dark roast of the new coffee from Bolivia. This is one with pretty low perceived acidity, smooth, easy drinking. I might make this the base of this year's Holiday Blend, but I have a couple more new things to sort out before I move on to figuring that out.