Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

At least with "player" supporting Carmen now they're no longer the worst player ever, but seriously, the character adds nothing interesting and only serves to remind the viewer of just how pointless anything that happens during the rest of the show really is (because it's just a video game, precluding the possibility of consequences).

Found out which class is immediately after mine in Boston this April. It's a really good pairing because Anne and I tackle some of the same concepts from completely different (but still valid) directions.

Noticed that Netflix has a new Carmen Sandiego cartoon. Sadly, it has the same fatal flaw as the previous one: the existence of "player".

Local plow keeps blocking my driveway.

Evening plan: cat and ice cream

Did a search for a product to see if it existed and the first result was a company selling not at all what I was searching for where the top of their site shows a video that, while it didn't auto-play, the still showed what appeared to be some lady in bed with Satan.

cat

Also had trouble getting back in the driveway today. Now I'm letting the cat give me some heat. She's very good at that.

Finished drafting another chapter. I've got a couple notes on things I'll want to go back to after checking references and calculating statistics. The next chapter is long and I don't think I have it in me to work on that tonight.

Yesterday's handwritten notes are likely to turn into another chapter.

With the snow, business is slow today. Had time to move my latest set of notes into the hybrid outline/draft of the book, fixed a couple typos, and cleaned up some of the existing draft. Hopefully I'll have time to draft a few more pages today.

Plowing on my street was bad so it took about as long to get out of my driveway as it did to get the rest of the way to work. I'm lucky that I can take emergency routes all the way which get attention earlier. One of my employees needed to shovel her car out of the snow twice on her route. #wisconsin

It's snowing and the roads are very slippery. Now that I'm home the cat wants me to pick her up and carry her around the house.

In an alternate universe Brother Benny said, "you want a white captain? I'll give you a white captain." And then he wrote Voyager (which also got pulped because you can't have a woman in command).

It's been a while since I retired from Chest Bot and it looks like nobody is challenging my top score (2600). Who will take the challenge and remove me from the top of the leaderboard?

I might have the other bottle of coffee beer tonight. It'll be interesting to see if it's changed in my fridge. I know that with some of these the coffee flavor gets stronger over time, but this one was already quite potent so I don't want to let that sit too long.

Today I talked with my accountant, with one of my high school English teachers, and with someone who roasted over half a billion (yes, with a b) pounds of coffee last year. Not a bad day.