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Crazy long line at the post office today. I noticed the self serve kiosk was not getting used so I went for that. The machine is slow and awkward compared to a human selling appropriate postage but I don't think the line moved at all in the time it took me to figure out how to use the kiosk and get my postage.

43 is not a large enough sample to justify 0.00% in the headline (0% would be fine, or just "no success" without the word rate).

theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/b

Today I drafted a manufacturer neutral guide on how to read the instruction manual that comes with your coffee roasting machine.

Come home from work, cat greets me at the door so "I'm home. Were you a good cat today?" and she gives me 1 meow and I don't know if that's a yes or a no.

A customer gave me a gift certificate for the (good) pizza place across the street as thanks for free tech support (because obviously when you need tech support you ask the owner of the local coffee shop who doesn't use any of the tech you're trying to get working). That was unexpected but hey, free food, I'll take it with gratitude.

Video games I played in November (alphabetical order):

Fallout Shelter
Gems of War
Gundemoniums
hack//G.U. Last Recode
Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live
Light Tracer
Mega Man 11
MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies
Red Dead Redemption 2
Rooms: The Unsolvable Puzzle
Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God
Superdimension Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls
Tetris Effect
Thumper

I'm kind of all over the place there.

It's been raining all day. At least you don't have to shovel rain.

Today I emailed a photo of a page from an almost exactly 20 year old coffee roaster user manual (dated November, 1998) with cleaning, maintenance, and the importance of fire safety. I hear that these days roaster fires are called "thermal events". Whatever you call it, you don't want to have one. They're super-obnoxious to put out.

A brief history of the temptations of sirens :

Ancient Greek : Listen to our beautiful voices sing temping lies.

Medieval : Hey boys! Watch me spread my flippers!

Modern : CAFFEINE!!!

It's important to do exercises like this to develop ways of thinking about the flavors in coffee and how these relate to where the coffee comes from, how the coffee was harvested and processed, and how the coffee was roasted. A certain level of abstraction is needed when customers ask for advice on what coffee they should try next, especially when they don't have the training and vocabulary to articulate what they want.

Did the major coffee regions tasting/mini lecture with the newest hire. We had coffees from Kenya (Africa), Sulawesi (Pacific), Brazil (America), and the same Brazilian coffee roasted really dark, all made as French press (because we have enough of these that they can be brewed in parallel).

The cat has been spending less time cuddling and more time looking at the snow in the back yard lately. It's still a lot of cuddling time.

Need to set aside some time to do software updates on my servers. It's been too long since I did that.

Apparently there are no classifications for video games falling between AAA and B (nor any below B)? There are no AA games, A games, C games, S games, &c.

If I listed out the games that I've played the most or that had the biggest impact on me or that I've had the most fun with, I'd probably have to go pretty far down any of those lists before hitting a AAA title (then again, I've genuinely enjoyed games that I'll readily admit are not good games).

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