Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

This'll be, I think, the fourth replacement network cable running to my house in the past year. Kind of sick of the neighbor's trees attacking me and wish I knew what I'd done that was so offensive to them.

Probably won't have power properly restored tonight, but I've got a guy working on the repairs that need to happen on my side of things before the power company will come back and hook that up, but he's going to plug the furnace into a generator and get the house heated up tonight. I've already taken the cat and a suitcase to Mom's house and I can crash there until I have power back on properly. Then I'll have to get the Internet cable put back in.

Had a phone call with the contractor. I'll have to head home and take some photos now that it's light out and I'll want to see what's going on with the electrical. Pretty sure it's safe to go back there now.

Power is still out, house was getting pretty cold so I've packed up the cat and taken her to Mom's house where she's now sitting on a couch.

Lack of power/Internet didn't stop me from finishing up some proof of concept code I've been working on. One of my test cases has a weird result that I'll need to dig into to figure out the right way to clean up, but I don't think I have enough battery remaining to figure that out.

This tree came from the same property that was previously uninhabitable because a different tree wiped out the back of the house. Their landlord should really just get rid of the trees since they keep attacking.

And now the power is out.

And I'll need an electrician when they're done. That'll probably be expensive. Also fence repairs.

And now the power company will be cutting my power to do repairs.

Internet is down again. Next door neighbor's tree is now across my entire backyard which fire fighters have said I should stay out of downed power lines. Both sides neighbors don't have power. but somehow my electric is fine.

New coffee to taste tomorrow.

Cat wants yogurt.

I'm having some work done on my house and was surprised to see the work truck still in my driveway when I got home, but figured I'd just keep driving, fail to find street parking, and just park in the municipal lot (free 24 hours) in the next block over. By the time I got back to my house, the driveway was free so I dropped my stuff off in the house and went back to my car to get it in my own driveway. The cat found this highly confusing.

Chipping away at some code tonight. It's kind of awful, but I'm having it show its work as I go and making sure that it's at least doing the parts that are implemented correctly. Still have a couple more chunks to write.

After checking out a few more options I've decided to change course on my plan for mathable fields in Typica. I found a decent enough decimal floating point library that's license compatible with my work, does what I need it to do, and I'll just hand-roll an expression evaluator for that.

boop

Fixed a server configuration problem on CRUCS. If you were affected by the about 1 minute of downtime as I fumbled about with that, sorry, everything should be back in working order now.

https://crucs.net/

Happy Inventory Day!

One of my employees brought in a "tree storage bag" because the box our fake Christmas tree lives in most of the year is in pretty bad shape and she no longer wished to own the bag. It came with its original packaging and listed among the selling points is "Festive - Holiday x-mas colored".

The company that made this apparently thinks that the color of "x-mas," perhaps the most festive of colors, is grey.

There's work on getting decimal floats into C and I wouldn't be surprised if C++ just absorbed that once it's ready, and I would expect this to also behave better for this use case so I can revisit that decision some time next decade.