Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Immediately after everybody left the cat came out and asked for hugs.

I have running water again. All the damage was in one place.

Whenever I end up with this sort of plumbing problem I get the valves upgraded to the kind I like. The kind I like are faster and easier to turn and you can see at a glance if the water is supposed to be on or not.

The cat is in her usual hiding from strangers spot. That's behind a big chair in the corner of the bedroom upstairs.

Plumber has verified that water service to the house is off so now he can find out what the damage is and get things fixed. I miss having a toilet that flushes.

@debugninja@banana.dog My grandfather managed to keep his Coleco Adam running well into the 1990s but I don't think there are a lot of machines left that take audio cassettes.

@em The most frustrating thing about this Pluto stuff is that apparently nobody knows what an adjective is anymore. Pluto is an orange dog. Orange doesn't negate dog-ness.

Something went boom outside and then power went off then on then off then on again

Water utility is trying to shut off water to my house so the plumber can repair the burst pipes. This apparently involves a blow torch and what seems to be the longest socket wrench I've ever seen.

My apprentice liked things closer to cup 24, but this needs to be an expensive coffee and out that dark it's not sufficiently different from another coffee in the product line that costs quite a bit less. It's important to keep the whole product line in mind to avoid having lots of tasty coffees where the primary difference is just the label on the bag.

I liked the 18th cup (ordered from lightest to darkest) best, but I'll want to adjust the timing to see if I can boost the intensity.

The first step in deciding how to roast a coffee is tasting to establish what the coffee is capable of. The biggest differences will just be in how dark it's roasted.

Cat is upset that I'm not sharing my pizza.

Have I mentioned yet that I hate writing graphics code? Because, yeah, I hate writing graphics code.

Let the person who does a lot of the production roasting now use the lab roaster again to get some practice on how we do product development here. She needs to get about 3x as fast at pulling samples but we all have to start somewhere.

@cardassianvole I remember a time when this was tried but the groundhog died before it could be made to look. There were school kids on a field trip and someone thought it was a good idea to change the ceremony into a funeral that the kids could watch instead.

This was not a good idea.

This failure of leadership means that education, training, and professional development resources are no longer considered core to the association's mission. What activities are now considered part of the mission? The hell if I know.

Apparently another meeting happened where the issues I raised while resigning from a committee were discussed (heatedly I'm told). I had previously shared my thoughts on an acceptable way forward. Others also had ideas that I would have considered acceptable first steps. Association leadership decided to go a different route that completely fails to address the fundamental problems. If that turns out to be true then I'm still out and next year I'll let my memberships lapse.

Good news: a small amount of pipe thawed to get water flowing in the house.
Bad news: it flowed out of the side of the pipe and across the basement.

This was caught right away. Valve is closed, but the plumber can't fix anything until the water department shuts things off at the main on Monday. That means I'll be living on microwave food and the cat will keep getting bottled water over the weekend.

Cat is enjoying her bottled water while I wait for my pipes to thaw.