Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Obtained a fresh bottle of cherry cider.

@dansup I thought it might be that but wasn't sure from that angle.

@dansup The top one is clearly a letter opener and appropriate for a secretary to have, especially if they intend to commit murder (which should probably be more common among secretarial workers). Less certain of what the bottom one is for.

@dansup It's so you don't have to lick the glue on envelopes.

Have lawyered up because the city is trying to sue me into homelessness over a problem of their own invention which everybody agrees should never have been referred to the court in the first place.

My lawyer thinks she can just make this go away and maybe find some grant money to cover some of what I've already spent dealing with this but if it goes to trial the mayor is willing to testify for me, which I think says a lot about just how screwed up the current situation is.

It's always nice when industry people stop by the shop for a visit. Had a good conversation with Phyllis Johnson over some coffee from Burundi.

Good morning. Pet the cat.

There's also a new fairy with bird puzzle by the same artist who did the dragon witch.

There's a glut of 1000 piece puzzles now after someone dropped off a lot of those. This eco-friendly bird puzzle looks like a good one to try.

Between phone calls of varying importance (some not at all, others extremely) and working with a new person who started training today, I've done far too much talking.

Getting a visit from a professional colleague tomorrow. We've cupped coffees together in Ethiopia and she's good at finding nice African coffees that I want to buy. It's been a while since our last chat so it'll be nice to catch up.

Pitched the idea of another company paying me to take a road trip and setting up free software at a bunch of coffee roasting facilities. I don't know if they'll go for it, but that would be fun.

(psst. you can totally hire me to take a road trip to all your stores and do free software stuff and/or roaster training)

From another company I picked some good new Halloween stuff. I wish they'd sell the hedgehog chocolates separately instead of bundling those with others but they don't so I skipped those. Also did a hard pass on shelf elf.

I like the new Chistmas packaging. Critters in sweaters is a much better choice than what Seattle has done the past couple years. I ordered a lot. Hope it sells.

Rugrats video game: putting the crawl in dungeon crawl.

Lightning Returns... for Roy Cleveland Sullivan