Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@taweret No, the people who make the pizzas are regular customers of mine.

Should I buy a pizza or eat the food I already own?

@yomimono How much do you like the family? Could you replace them with cats?

@yomimono You're spending too much on housing if your utilities are only $120. I'd recommend finding something you can get a cheaper 30 year mortgage on to free up some family not dying money. If you can find an especially good deal (my mortgage is $270 fixed, but I don't know if I could find that again now) you could maybe even budget a little more for joke domain names.

proof

While running errands I spent some time at a red light behind someone who painted over their license plate frame to write "cats rule" on it instead.

cat: I'm sitting on your arm now.
human: ok

The lot I've been using is also substantially more full now, but everybody else seems to have waited til very last minute to move there.

This is the foot of my driveway now. Glad I wasn't parked there.

Have the Bubble Bobble tune in my head. Maybe I'll replay Yoiyami Dreamer (aka Touhou Bubble Bobble) tonight.

So much sneezing

Arrived at work to find a 50 pound coffee order. That's the cutoff for free shipping but they're close enough I might just do the delivery run myself.

Nobody else on the street is making alternative parking arrangements. Would not be surprised if everybody else gets towed or trapped in their driveway once the contractors get around to rebuilding the street. I'm using the free lot half a block away because I can read.

Me: Hi, I'd like to buy one of your $10K machines but I have a few questions that I need answered before I can do that.
Salesperson at trade show: Sure, email that to me.
me (email): *questions*
salesperson: (no reply)
me (several days later from an alternate email address): *questions*
salesperson: (no reply)
me a couple months later: *calls phone number on business card, leaves voicemail*

It shouldn't be this hard to spend several thousands of dollars. I want to buy, take the easy sale.

(the capsule type is slightly different and there's a small difference in the box art, but otherwise it's the same thing, though I do wish they sold this stuff from a bottle instead of blister packs. Blister packs are a terrible idea.)

Used up the last of my allergy medicine so I've obtained a fresh supply. The way the product options are organized it's challenging to find which package provides the best value. And then you have to hope things were stocked properly when you have two boxes of the same count of the same dose of the same active ingredient in the same brand at different price points.

One of my videos is up to 994 likes on YouTube (only took 7.5 years to get there but it's still one of the better videos out there for the material it covers). Will it hit 1000 by the end of the month? Maybe.

Watch it ad-free on the #PeerTube network: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/a4aecb05-2e2b-4b80-a532-b1a78155139b

It's disappointing, but I don't see any reason to expect that they're not going to make this right and frankly it's better that a problem like this happens to someone like me than someone who urgently needs that particular machine to work. I can keep using my IR-1 for sample roasting and work on different aspects of my software while I wait for this to get resolved. The time zone situation is kind of obnoxious, though, since they're based in London (I get email between 4-7AM and I work closing).