Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

This morning one of the fans in my laptop started making bad noises. Called System76 support and they're going to send me a replacement fan to swap in. I was really surprised at how little information (they asked 0 questions about that) they needed to pull up my order info.

The cat keeps trying to sit on my shoulder.

I have no idea why spammers think I might be in the market for a machine that makes polystyrene food containers.

Coffee smells good.

So that presidential alert test? Based on what happened at my shop it seems to have taken about an hour for everybody to get the alert. Those came in one phone at a time several minutes apart for different customers.

My latest coffee order arrived today. Now that my afternoon crew is here I can work on figuring out how I want to roast the new coffees. For today that's a coffee from Papua New Guinea, a coffee from India, and a decaffeinated coffee from Mexico. I also have a different lot of a coffee from Kenya, but I still have one or two batches of the previous lot to roast before I need to worry about that.

I want to get all of this sorted before I go on vacation in a couple weeks.

I guess the lesson of that story is always have your passport handy because you never know when you might unexpectedly need it.

The shortest notice I've ever seen, though, was the instructor didn't have his passport and there just happened to be a big group of instructors gathered together to work on curriculum development so someone came into the room and shouted the question if anybody had a visa/passport and could go teach those classes now. I didn't go for that one, but that was about the best timing possible to have that sort of disaster.

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?