Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The nice thing about a U.S. passport is a situation like that is not nearly as bad as it could be.

Need to call the airline and find out how much of a problem they've created with their schedule change and what they can do to fix it if necessary. They're warning they may or may not strand me in Korea (it's probably fine unless there are delays) next month. I should probably toss business cards for people I know there into my carry on so if I do get stranded there I can at least call some people I know who would probably be willing to help me out in an emergency like that.

This is one of the things I like about the Atelier series. In most RPGs you'd either be overthrowing the corrupt government or being a pawn doing its bidding, but here you can just raise your objection to replacing the city walls with candy and the government leader sees your points and cancels the bad plan without so much as a boss fight.

Every so often I get a pen because promotional pen companies just send these things to businesses in the hopes of getting sales (never mind that my company has never purchased promotional pens). Most of these are quite awful. One of the more recent ones lights up, but only sometimes and it doesn't direct the light anywhere useful. The contact information that lights up is hard to read when it's not emitting light. I will not be purchasing these.

Schedule was packed awkwardly today. Time for a very late light lunch.

Firis has no idea who the doll is supposed to look like. #AtelierFiris

Convenient game-like mechanic doesn't make sense and that's okay. #AtelierFiris

Quest: Tell the mayor that her latest policy idea is bad. #AtelierFiris

Evening in with the cat.

I think it's safe to remove most of the blankets from the sofa. The cat mostly only relaxes on the part that sticks out (the cat seat).

Tested the next lot of Guatemalan coffee and I'm thinking of putting 3 different roasts of that on the shelf. Need to do test batches and see how they taste filtered, but if they're all good this will double as some market research to see if I have customers for something lighter from the Americas.

It looks like the new Fresh Cup Magazine is out. I don't have a copy and the digital version runs a month behind so I don't know what, if anything, got used, but their art director asked me for some photos for an article someone else wrote that ran in that issue.

And of course nobody has a way to contact anybody to let someone know that someone is lying and maybe they should look into that.

So that Sunday package delivery estimate, now I have a thing claiming, "yeah, we totally tried to deliver at noon but the business was closed." No, you didn't because no it wasn't. I was there.

Got my first viewer question for the new vlog (from a viewer in Colombia) so next month I'll be talking about airflow and how hot your coffee roaster should be when you start a batch.

This is a topic that I haven't talked about much because airflow isn't something that most roasters have a lot of control over (this has been changing over the past several years) and there's stuff in Typica that makes precision in the pre-heat less important on a lot of machines.

Somehow screwed up certificate auto-renewal on https://code.typica.us

Finally got around to fixing that (I still had another 12 days).

Happy Cirno Day!

I think I'm out of dinner-like food again. Choices: take out, grocery shopping, breakfast for dinner.

This reminds me: my father used to work as a nurse in neonatal intensive care and someone once asked him how to spell Chlamydia because she heard the word and thought it would be a pretty name for her daughter and he had to talk her out of that.

Don't name your kid Accounting.

Who falls for this?