Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

where there means the web site for the book

Latest video was a PeerTube exclusive for a few hours but hasn't seen much attention there. Over on YouTube it took about 24 hours for that to become the most watched/liked episode in the series, mainly because someone shared the book announcement over on a forum. When I start doing videos that are just related to the book I'll be preferring those PeerTube embeds there.

I've also gotten a few people who have worked with me on education projects previously offering to provide feedback as I work through the editing process. I was hoping I'd be able to get that sort of help from exactly these types of people.

On my latest video I shared more info on the coffee roasting book I'm writing and so people are starting to ask to be informed about things like when the ebook version will be available. I think that means I really need to put up a proper web site for the book and let people sign up for a mailing list for that sort of update. Just registered a domain for that and I think I've got an underutilized server that I can put that on once I decide what to put there.

Latest total from yesterday's fundraiser is $832.66. I'm rounding that up to an even $1000 plus a $100 check someone left. Any other post-event donations will go separately if there are any. Not bad for 4 hours.

Had two good phone conversations today in response to my letter resigning from regular committee work and a few email exchanges. Also had a good event. I don't remember the exact total but in the 4 hours the shop was open we raised about $900 for the local food bank. We usually get a little more over the next few days so I won't have the final total until later.

The cat had stuff on her face.

@mwlucas no problem. just a word of warning, whichever small business accounting program you go for, you'll hate it.

@mwlucas when payroll got challenging. It's all about the tax tables.

In the latest video I talk about my experience with System76 technical support, my exit from work related to the Coffee Skills Program, the book I'm writing, and a preview of stuff that I needed to push to the next episode.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/f61e0b48-5cce-4d43-8da4-6a3bde1e4f7c

This time I'm guessing it's some idiot shooting. Ugh.

12:01AM, time to play everybody's favorite ghetto game, guess the sound: fireworks or gunfire!

Render went faster than estimated, but audio levels were bad. Let's fix that and try again.

Waiting for my next video to finish rendering. It's estimating an hour and thirty-eight minutes using 6 cores, which seems excessive. Now I'm going to eat chocolate and wait for midnight while replaying Virtue's Last Reward and petting the cat.

The strange thing here is that now that I'm checking to see what the notification was, there isn't one, so what was even the point of that? Is the phone so desperate for me to pay attention to it that it's inventing phantom notifications in hopes that I'll play a game or something?