Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Filed sales tax for the publishing company. The book isn't out yet so sales are 0 and there's a convenient check box for reporting 0. Hopefully the comments from reviewers come in soon so I can do final revisions and start selling that. I suppose I could do a pre-order thing, but I don't want to.

The monthly fluff emails from Shippo have always seemed suspect (especially the $ saved), but the latest one seems especially improbable.

My mother got her virus stimulus, but it also included money for my dead father. Have asked an accountant if that's right and advised Mom to not spend half of that in case the IRS decides to claw that back.

The cat has decided to relax on my legs. She's upset that I won't let her shove her head into a bag of day old muffins.

Also, I cleared the Pain Area in Death end re;Quest. I'm doing a NG+ play through to finish up the platinum trophy requirements so I tackled that over-leveled enough that the challenge was only in how tedious the area could be. With the rewards from clearing that, Shina is up at level 176, everybody has equipment upgrades, and I've got enough money to buy my way out of the fetch quests if I'm unlucky with collection points.

My accountant says my personal taxes are finished. I'll be getting over $1000 back from the state and I'm having the federal over-payment applied to the 2020 tax year as usual.

@technomancy I'm really enjoying that one right now. It's got a subtle apricot note.

@technomancy Pretty much everything I've got right now is a washed coffee. The Ethiopian is very nice, but it's still a washed Sidamo. I might switch to a natural later in the year when I run out of that, but that mostly depends on what shows up on my cupping table. I wouldn't mind bringing in a nice natural El Salvador either if I find one after the current health crisis. For now I need to be super-conservative on orders.

@gnomon I have a ton of options, but for today I'm thinking the old Bodum Granos.

Shop is closed today. I should fire up the home espresso machine.

I've been informed that it is once again time for cat hugs.

@jaybird @Taweret@octodon.social Pretty sure the Trill symbionts are also amphibians when not joined with a host. That's definitely his kink.

@jaybird @Taweret@octodon.social amphibian. Worf has a frog girl fetish.

I feel like I'm transforming into Dino Mask. That's a bit worrying as people with Mask in their name are never good role models.

The cat has decided my elbow is a pillow.

Today I got an answer about why one of the grocery stores in the area has a family of giant inflatable lions. The owner of the store is on some board for the local zoo and the lions are decorations for one of their no doubt cancelled or postponed fundraisers. The grocery store is just storing the lions until they're needed.

Probably for the best that what I finished wasn't what I started working on since that's projected to be about 5x longer.