Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Trying to talk myself out of building a new PC. It's been ages since I assembled one myself

I voted.

Two coffee shipments arrived today. Wrenched my back on the last bag, but end of the week there should be a few new things out on the shelf.

Package tracking says a thing was one zip code digit away from here but instead of routing it to another post office in the same city and delivering it, they sent it half way across the state instead.

Took an initial crack at solving the real problem and while I still need to go back and make some changes elsewhere in the program to make this do the right thing all the time, the test cases I've been using to diagnose the performance issue are now finishing in about a tenth of a second instead of taking almost a minute and that's honestly good enough.

Shaved off a good chunk of the performance issues currently preventing the next release of CRUCS. It's not the real performance bottleneck (which has been identified) but these were easy changes that will still be nice to have later whereas the real fix is going to be somewhat more involved. Sadly, the profiler didn't show what I was hoping the bottleneck would have been as had what my first guess was been right it would have been a much easier fix.

I'm going to a baseball game on Sunday. There will be no further discussion of this and I've probably already said too much as I do not have and will not be seeking the express written consent of Major League Baseball.

Did a Tetris Effect update cause the jellyfish stage to get worse in VR? I don't remember that one jellyfish deciding to light up and block my view of nearly the entire play field.

Today's corn is pretty good.

Spent some time debugging code that I wrote on the train and while it's now mostly (but not quite completely) working correctly now, the performance is egregiously bad so I'm going to have to get to the bottom of that before I let those features out.

Caught a falling cat.

The cat is trying to shove her paw into my ear.

Updating payroll records to give everybody a raise. It'll be interesting to see next week who notices and who doesn't.

The cat is giving me lots of petting.

The other trick the cat tried was seeing if she could get back in her travel box and if that would summon me.

My sister reported the cat not eating and puking what she did eat, but at least over her first night back home her diet is back to normal so I think she was just trying a hunger strike in hopes that I would get back from vacation early. Will still keep an eye on that to see if there's something more serious going on, but her other behaviors are also back to normal so far.

When I went to pick up the cat she looked depressed and had no response to my presence at all. Once I got her home she resumed her normal personality.

Back home with the cat.

I can see Wisconsin from the train, but it'll be a while before the border is crossed.

Now on the 5th and final train for this trip. I'll be there for the next couple days.