Do you ever find a turn of phrase that tickles you, amuses you, or otherwise makes you wish you had thought of it? I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Leet (I have to be me) and came across the phrase “symbolic word obfuscation”

I may adopt that as a blog tagline in the future. You have been warned.

Running Dev Beta 3 everywhere. Cost me some time at work today understanding that the mandated Cisco AnyConnect VPN client (v5.x) on my work MacBook was interrupting my network connection. Fortunately I can quit the app. Unfortunately, it’s mandatory and gets re-installed if I remove it. I signed up for this. I’m the guy that runs the betas. There’s a group that hears about my struggles and decisions are made as a result. Even if the decision is: let’s see if this continues through the beta cycle, or maybe the vendor addresses it.

In other news: I do not want to mow my lawn

TIL the lore of the wetsuit: So, in Animal Crossing, apparently one does not put wetsuits in storage. I used to always keep one in my inventory, but got out of the habit of diving, and I thought “I’ll just put them in storage.”

But, today, I needed one because of Gullivarr. And the two wetsuits I bought were not anywhere. Then I read a Reddit post from 6 years ago describing a bug. We’re on v3.0.3 on an island [DA-3459-2622-7968] that has moved from a Switch Lite to a Switch OLED to a Switch 2. Apparently the bug is still real. Wetsuits in storage may disappear.

So, I gave Tom Nook more Bells because I didn’t feel like putting the effort into traveling to a Treasure Island.

But I found the communicator on my first dive, so I have that going for me, which is nice. Which is nice!

Playing with the HyperTexting app. It’s not ready for Micro.blog, today. The automatic linking of social media profiles is concerning. It’s linking to a service and username that I stopped using and had deleted the account. Someone else has adopted that user name but it’s not me. I don’t want it associated with me, but it’s in my HyperTexting profile.

A few hours later:

Looks like the issue is me. Based on feedback from the HyperTexting folk, I took a look at the page source of my main page and the call is coming from inside the house.

I don’t see that I can edit the HTML directly but I’ve been wrong about plenty of things so I’ve started asking Micro.blog Help for some assistance. I’m advertising things I do not intend to. And the author tag is messy.

Today I learned Terry Gilliam was born in Minnesota. I didn’t believe the source but other locations on the internet seem to agree. Apparently he became a British citizen about the time I was born. The world continues to become more interesting.

Is there a thing I’m missing with the Lenovo docks and the flickering screens? USB-C dock? Thunderbolt 3 dock? Thunderbolt 4 dock? It matters not. Lenovo Dock Manager says dock firmware is up-to-date. Windows Updates say laptops are up-to-date. Lenovo Commercial Vantage says laptops are up to date. Cables replaced. Flicker. Flicker. Flicker.

In other news, we have adopted a stray cat. We keep watching various sites for rescues and reporting lost animals and to the best of our information she’s not there.

We interacted with the cat, outdoors, on several separate occasions, and at one point while we considered opening our doors and we were researching those same sites. Based on a story from someone a few blocks from where we live, we were convinced she had been given to a local rescue org. The very moment we had the conversation about feeling relief the cat would be cared for, she showed up again at our doorstep. My kiddo called to her and the cat came running.

We opened our door and invited her in. She opted to come in. She opted to use a litter box (we were hopeful). And given the opportunity to leave via a door left open, she walked out briefly twice and came back into the house assertively.

Pending a proactive trip to the vet, we think she may be ours now.

We are still watching the community sites. It has been several days with no reports of any cat matching her description newly lost or gone for a while. We’ve gone back to November of last year.

It seems I only own 11 of Rush' studio albums. I have some catching up to do.

Have the band Rush on the brain, lately. They’ve been showing up in my TikTok feed of late because of Anika Nilles. I tend to enjoy watching videos posted by drummers. I’ve never had a kit but have always wanted one. Nevertheless, I find it joyful that two out of the original trio are alive and well and touring. Anika isn’t Neil Peart, but she does a great job of playing the parts he composed, so the songs sound like you need them to sound.

I had the privilege of seeing Rush play once in the 1990’s, in Jacksonville, Florida. They play note-perfect. So seeing Anika play note-perfect was no surprise. It warms my heart, honestly.