Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

2020 is the year that just keeps giving. Car repair estimate came back and it's far enough outside of my budget that I'll just be replacing the vehicle. Ugh.

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi What did they do to Sasami's hair?

Car needs a new engine. My mechanic is looking for a couple options but pretty much no matter what I do this is going to cost substantially more than I was hoping.

My favorite part of a post getting popular on fedi is seeing everybody's cool domain names.

@flugennock@mastodon.social Punk's (the cat) ideal schedule for me is I should hang out with the cat for 36 hours, then go to work, then hang out with the cat another 36 hours. She doesn't get that, but does get a lot of attention.

@sean Mine was a then obsolete 286 based DOS laptop that was left over from a project to get machines that could be checked out from a school library (more computers could get fixed up than the little portable printers those were paired with so even with spares we had some left over for us kids fixing those up). 3 color screen, 1MB RAM, 40MB hard drive, very sturdy.

It's time to pet the cat.

Cocoa in Christmas packaging arrived today.

I keep that one at work and a different more basic keyboard at home because I tend to destroy laptop keyboards these days (nobody makes a good laptop keyboard anymore) and the rest of the computer is still fine.

One of the delivery drivers liked my keyboard. It gets a surprisingly large number of comments from people who see me using it, but all I did was go to a store, try out all the demo keyboards, and bought the one I liked the feel of best (which just happened to be some gamer keyboard with fancy lights [I leave mine to animate a rainbow across the keyboard] and a bunch of features I'll never use).

Web site update won't be today after all. We're just waiting on a return email from the food bank to make sure they're good with our plans and hammer out the final details, but the tentative plan is that we'll donate 20% of all sales on January 2-3 (and 20% of orders through the web site January 1-3, the shop will be closed on the 1st) as well as having an easy way for customers to leave food and money in the week prior.

@kevinwhipwrecked Depends on where the recipe comes from. For most contemporary recipes out of the US a half cup is about 120ml (4 fluid ounces)

Finalizing plans for the New Year's fundraiser. Should have a web site update with that information before the end of the day.

cat: what you're doing is great, but have you considered that you could be using this time to pet the cat?

And my grant application (WI DOR program for small businesses) got approved today, so that's helpful.

With the boxes that went out today, November has officially been my best month yet for sales through the web site. The previous best was back in April. It's also more than 9 times November web sales last year.

This time of year when it's getting dark before I get home I wonder if the cat would prefer I keep a light on for her or if she's fine being alone in the dark.

web site/app idea that I won't make, please steal: catchat - meet adoptable shelter cats in your area

The cat has decided that it's time for me to pet the cat.