Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Not sure how it happened but the latest royalty payment from Amazon was really good (still only $1.01, but normal is $0.02-$0.20). The credit union recently started trying to categorize my transactions and it put that one down as "Salary" which seems excessively depressing (even giving away software pays better than that).

It looks like there's one interactive dog in Genshin Impact. I can't pet it, but I can call it a good dog. This means I have absolutely no incentive to help the guy who is unreasonably scared of the dog until Mihoyo adds dog petting as a proper feature.

Everybody loves Christmas Sloth, but nobody wants to buy it.

I think their web strategy is recognition that the news is depressing so they're going to do whatever it takes to stop you from accidentally reading the news.

I think the local newspaper has mostly given up on trying to sell copies from the box they've got in front of my shop. It looks like they're only putting a copy at the front of the case and then not even bothering to change it daily. (or is the newspaper just no longer a daily thing anymore because who reads dead tree newspapers when you've got a web site overloaded with the absolute worst kinds of ads getting in the way of reading the articles?)

What's on the ceiling?

Finished my class and test early. Still waiting for my sister who was also renewing.

If any fedi peeps playing #GenshinImpact want to link for the current event, my code is UNK9OPBK

Long day tomorrow. I'll be getting my food safety management license renewed (there's a review class for most of the day followed by a test). I have enough employees with the license that I don't technically need to have this (I pay staff to get this), but I'd rather keep it up.

Talkative cat is letting me know all about her exciting day.

@mwlucas As production was finishing up on that episode, then mayor Richard Riordan proposed creating fenced in areas for Los Angeles' homeless.

New coffee from Java is available on the web site now. I still need to design a label for it, but I'm putting that off until tomorrow.

I think I'll go with a blend combining coffees from Indonesia (Sulawesi and Java), Guatemala, and Brazil this time around.

Working on new espresso blends is difficult these days. You have to put your mask on, make the coffee, then take the coffee away someplace where you can be alone before unmasking to take a sip of the coffee, then mask up for the next attempt, repeat until it's right. And since it's espresso, there's a limited amount of time to taste that at its best. I guess it's good for the people who count their steps.

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static cat zapped me with a nose boop.

I don't know what she intended to ask, but I got a text from my mother inviting me over after work for an extinct third century religion and fries. Her fries aren't very good so I'll stick to my plan of eating my own food and petting the cat.

(this is still not as good as the time a spammer was pleased to understand that I was in the market for life sized animatronic dinosaurs)

Today's spam includes a message from someone who is confident that their cranes will improve my business. Because of course, when you think of vital equipment in operating a coffee shop, cranes are right up there.