Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The socially acceptable replacement for a handshake is now, "Wonder Twin powers, activate!"

Punk wants a cuddle.

Spending some quality time with the cat.

The new (used) car is smaller but the trunk is big enough for almost anything I've put in the old one and it has some features that I've never had in a car before like a backup camera.

I have a car again. Tomorrow I'll get the old one emptied out and see about getting NPR to tow it away.

While the credit union couldn't see their way to a yes on a car loan (I'll have to rethink continuing a relationship with them because if they don't have my back when I need help then what good are they?) my sister is going to help me out with that.

New Peruvian coffee is up on the web site. I only brought in 30Kg of this and I've already roasted a third of that so it won't be available for long.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

After calling the person who was handling my car loan (car needs either replacement or an engine that costs more than half the price of that replacement) application and asking her to check her spam box for the documents she wanted that I emailed Monday (sure enough, there they were), they're not interested in being useful. So that sucks.

I still haven't seen a coconut in #GenshinImpact so the Cocogoat existing in an area saved for later exploration remains a possibility.

Santa Claus is not coming to town. You know why.

@halcy The original plan for the game Marble Madness was for the trackball to have force feedback, but that turned out to be a really hard problem so the idea got scrapped.

It took less than 24 hours to sell out of my first production batch of that. I'll roast more later today.

I guess I'm a cat bed now.

It looks like people are finally starting to buy the Christmas Sloth mugs.

It's not on the web site yet, but the new Peruvian coffee is available in store now.

I've just been informed that it's cat hug time.

@sean Might not be applicable for your situation, but the classic answer to this is re-use. For example, Gust used to do 2 or 3 games in a series with basically the same engine and a lot of the same or only slightly updated graphics. Some of my favorite games from the shareware era were done by people who did a small game then flipped a concept to get a completely different game with relatively minor changes.

My favorite Christmas tree growing up was the year we had this little hand made thing about 2 inches tall that some kid was going door to door selling so he could afford to buy presents. Set it up on a snack tray, put the presents under that. No decorating/undecorating, no watering, barely any transporting, no issues with disposal. Proper trees always seem like too much hassle.

Tasting my next limited edition coffee. Production test batch turned out the way I expected. It's on the lighter side of a dark roast and has a flavor reminiscent of sweet apples if you imagine that both in coffee and good.