Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

For my birthday, WI DOT sent me a letter letting me know that they're not sending new license plate stickers until I get emissions testing done on my car. Usually if they think I need that they bother to mention it before taking the renewal money, but I guess that slipped through the cracks this year.

Today is unusually productive for me so far. Knocking tons of stuff off my list of things that need doing. People are mostly just staying out of my way and letting me get stuff done.

Glad to see the toy drive box getting filled with actual toys. The first thing in the bin was a book with pictures of old toys that I guess the kid who gets it could look at the pictures and maybe pretend that they were playing with those toys.

I have "birthday cake". Except it's still a few days before my birthday and it's one slice because the rest of it got sold. I don't really care, but my mother is not good at birthdays.

One of the orders going out tonight has what's currently my lightest roast, my darkest roast, and one that's right in the middle.

Apparently Pinball FX is still doing that thing where it just gives me all of the season rewards at the start of the season instead of making me earn them. That's fine, I guess, but kind of confusing (and it takes a long time as it's giving everything out).

Bought another couple thousand pounds of coffee. Another decaf Fair Trade option, various things to flesh out the offerings for the Christmas season. That'll probably get here end of next week, early week after and it'll take a few days for me to run all of those through product development.

Internet is back on. And unlike the last few outages it's also back on in my house.

Wired Internet at the house went down a bit after I left for work, isn't back up yet, no current estimate on when that'll be fixed.

someone is in the shop wearing what looks like the top of a Star Trek Voyager uniform (red)

The cat is trying to help me play Tetris. The problem with this is that the cat is not being very helpful.

@gnomon Made the mistake of trying to catch a falling tape gun and the pointy bits landed on my fingertip. It's already healed.

Slightly injured the right hand middle finger. Scroll gestures don't work through the bandage and typing feels weird. It's a little better if I just don't use that finger, which I suppose is one of the benefits of learning to type without learning proper typing technique. My hands mostly don't care which finger or hand (big hands) I use for which key.

Typed up a reply to a toot, read it, thought, "am I about to be a reply guy?", smashed that backspace key.

Used up the last of my unfortunate chicken sandwich materials (unfortunate because larger than usual pieces of chicken and smaller than usual buns).

The cat is furiously mashing her face into a keyboard. She likes the clicky noises the keys make.

Cat is being extra affectionate. It might be because I opened up a pack of mint cookies.

Having chicken sandwiches for lunch. Have the unfortunate combination of larger than usual pieces of chicken and smaller than usual bread. The cat wants to sit in my lap while I'm eating that.

It's time for ice cream and cat petting.

This quarter's water bill for my house is for exactly the same amount as last quarter's water bill. Also need to look to see if I have another book of checks and where that is because I have exactly enough for the bills I'm writing checks for this month, but will continue having bills to pay next month.