Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

2600 is an acceptable score at which to retire from chest_bot, I think.

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Looks like channel 4 used my little interview segment. I didn't catch it on air. https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/west-racine-is-getting-its-first-bar-in-more-than-100-years

Police should never be allowed to direct traffic. They are universally terrible at it.

Hordak was better when he had enough screen time to play the middle manager of evil, but that's my only complaint about new SheRa and it's a very minor one.

The cat has informed me that it's time to hug the cat.

The last person was kind of screwy though. Clearly anti-bar and was pointing at the three churches on the street and I'm just thinking first,Jesus was pretty clearly not a prohibitionist, second, in the grand scheme of things churches have probably caused more societal harm than bars.

More people wanted to talk to me about the bar that might be opening down the street and I don't understand why. It's not my bar, while I wouldn't be opposed to selling coffee to them there haven't been any conversations about that yet, I'm not on any of the boards that would need to approve this, and if anything they'd be direct competitors. My position is that I'm not going to get bent out of shape over yet another bar opening in a city that has lots of bars already.

New candy shipment arrived today but one of the items was marked with a best by date of today so I'm not selling/paying for that. The rest of the order was fine so now I have chocolates wrapped up to look like ladybugs. I wish the hedgehogs were sold unbundled. Those always sell fast.

They also got video of the end of a big batch of coffee from Papua New Guinea.

Talked to the TV crew so people in SE WI might be able to see me on TMJ4.

A television crew is out today working on the story I was quoted on in the newspaper yesterday.

Today someone wanted me to ship them 25 teabags. Personally, I'd just look harder for a local tea seller and find something to enjoy there, but if they really want to pay more for postage than for the tea, I'll sell it.

Oddly, nobody mentioned seeing the quote. That might be because it's on 4A (though it's in big bold call out on that page) or it might be because nobody reads newspapers. I can't go to their web site because of how actively hostile it is toward its readers (this is a big part of why I won't buy advertising with them).

Local newspaper used my quote. Someone wants to open a bar near my shop. I'd rather they had food because then I'd be more likely to go there myself, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I'd definitely rather have a bar than a predatory lending outfit.

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T spins should be banned from Tetris.