Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It's sort of an interesting contrast. Some events that I've taught at, instructors are lined up 3-6 months in advance. At other events I've gotten the call asking, "is your visa for {country} still valid and can we fly you there to teach a class next week?"

Normally I wouldn't be concerned about that, but Boston is weird about coffee roasting machines.

I let the person who called me to ask that know that this could be adapted to not require hands on roasting if that turns out to be necessary, but I probably won't have to do that adaptation.

Today I was asked if I'd like to teach the most recent class I developed again at an event in April so I guess I'm going to Boston in April.

When I continued after clearing Timespinner the first time it dropped me at a place where I could go right to picking up a 2nd ending.

NG+ even at a harder difficulty (except not really because I'm stupidly overpowered now) is going a lot faster. Found a few new things this run through.

Will probably go for the platinum trophy eventually. Not sure if I'll need to do a third play through to finish that up.

Has Visionary Fairies in Shrine gone back to quarterly?

I went home to grab something I forgot I needed to bring with me today and there was a cat in the back yard.

Last night I finished up my first full play through of Timespinner. I spent about 10 hours total on that (I was a bit on the slow side, probably because I did a lot of back tracking and optional stuff), did not find everything, and it looks like there's at least 3 more endings with one of these probably being a minor variation of the one I went for. It was fun and odds are good that I'll give it a couple more NG+ replays to at least get the different endings.

I feel like most places on the Internet vastly underestimate the number of people who would like to be cats.

Now that Mastodon has bot tagging, how long before we get Misskey's "This account is a cat" (can be combined for bot cats) feature?

Ordered about 1500 pounds of coffee today. I'm a little upset because I asked them to let me know when one of these coffees was available and I never got the return call on that. I would have placed the order sooner and bought more had they followed through on that.

Two packages arrived from out of the country today. Sometimes the customs forms are strange. One of these was labeled as a gift of "car alarm" which isn't even close. In this case there's no difference in taxes or tariffs to explain it so I imagine they're just shipping everything as "car alarm" because they don't English and it's just easier that way.

Overnight the cat kept shifting closer to my face.

The cat is snoring.

After dinner I'll try to stay awake and draw new graphs.

Of course for me I just write that stuff into software and let the computer do the math for me instead, but not everybody wants that.

Finished writing up a section of a document that goes over useful formulae for coffee roasters. More of a plug your numbers in like this to get that information out sort of thing than anything that explains why that works. While it's useful to know how to derive the math, it's obnoxious to have to do that every time you forgot the formula you came up with last time and for a lot of people in the profession it's been a long time since they were in an algebra class.

Woke up to a $50 donation in support of developing Typica (free software that hooks into coffee roasters with lots of features that make consistent roasting easier and reports that help you make sense of the business side of coffee roasting operations). That brings the total for the year to date up to $175 minus processing fees.

Thank you,

https://typica.us/