Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The rice cooker has successfully cooked rice. There are still two features that I wish were standard:

1. An estimate of how long until the cooker thinks it's done so I can decide if I stall on plating other parts of the meal or if I rearrange the dish.

2. A proper off setting (rather than needing to unplug the thing). I'll never intentionally use the Warm setting. All I need are Cook and Off.

Also got a smaller rice cooker. Mildly disappointed that the included coupon for $1 off my next bag of rice expired 11 months ago, though I guess that goes a long way toward explaining the sale price.

Didn't go out of my way to make this happen but 100% of today's grocery run hit a sale price.

The cat was very patient waiting for me to open the laptop again and finish installing the upgrades now that I could. New machine now has 96 GB of RAM, 8 TB of storage. Sister's machine is coming with 16 GB RAM and I'll be able to put in the 16 I took out of mine to double her memory.

Replacement SSD retaining screws have been delivered. This time the package contained the product. I helped my sister order a new laptop today and I'll pull that apart when it arrives, pop in the RAM that I pulled out of mine so she'll start with a free upgrade and I'll check if hers is also missing a retaining screw for the unpopulated slot, install one of my spares if she needs it.

New dream last night. I was coaching someone who was training for mascot try outs.

The cat is demanding hugs.

Turns out the new laptop is missing the retaining screw for the unpopulated SSD slot. Was able to migrate the system install to one replacement drive, but I can't install the other drive until I get a screw. Original drive moved to an enclosure so I can still use that if needed.

Today I spent about $20K on coffee. Coffee is expensive right now so I'm going to have to charge a lot for it.

AP: How many Thanksgiving groceries can you buy with $100? Me: More than 9 if you're not shopping at the $10.99 store. (Also, who are these weirdos who even think to wash the turkey? Pretty sure that's fake news.)

Cat ate a tortilla chip.

Complaining about the lack of tracking number was apparently enough to summon a delivery driver with my package. I'll have to wait to do anything with that until after work. Still have coffee to roast and orders to ship.

The last of the upgrades for my next laptop have been delivered. I decided that I liked recent SSD sale prices enough to go ahead and fill both slots. The laptop this stuff is going into has allegedly shipped, but I still don't have a tracking number.

The cat thinks I'm sitting on something good that she wants, but I'm not.

I prefer my program code to be as unmagical as possible because I don't put trust in wizards who I hear are subtle and quick to anger.

Found a problem, identified a solution, decided that the solution seemed a bit too magical, found a less magical solution that I feel more confident in.

The cat gave me lots of head pats this morning.

Fresh supply of glue acquired; applied to things set aside in need of glue.

My first laptop only had 1MB.

96GB of laptop RAM got delivered today. Still waiting for the machine I'll pop that in to.