Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

USPS should bring back Regional Rate Box C.

It's 5:13PM, which is entirely too late to be eating lunch so I'm just going to pretend that a cookie is lunch so as to not spoil dinner.

Wrote a check for the house repairs I've been trying to get done for the past year. I'll need to write 2 more of those as the work progresses and when it's finished, and then we'll need to sort out what the next repair priority is. The house is over a century old and while the bones of it are extremely good (designed and built by a carpenter who intended to live there) there's a lot to maintain.

Watch this space for more info: https://www.crgretreat.coffee/

As usual I'll be working with the people putting that event together to figure out how the class needs to be adapted for the given venue (how many stations are we running, what's the class size, incorporating feedback from the last time I delivered the class, &c.)

I've been invited and have accepted the offer to teach at the next Roasters Guild Retreat outside of Atlanta, GA this August. I'll be delivering my class twice back to back, which means my throat will be raw by the end of that day.

I left the house early today to reduce the navigating around utility work burden and to catch up on some things at the shop. The cat was mid-nap and lifted herself up a bit to express displeasure at my leaving as usual, but probably went right back to sleep after I left. Got breakfast and a loaf of good bread at the bakery. Caught up on sample roasting (still have to cup things). Spent too much time on phone calls (I hate phone calls).

Figured out where I want all my graphic changes on the next video and approximately what those should be. Now I just need to go through and script that, do a recording, editing, exporting a file to upload, checking, uploading, and publishing.

Ordered another thousandish pounds of coffee today. I still have sample roasting and cupping that I need to catch up on, too.

Okay, but seriously, why is the compose key not just a standardized key that's available and properly labelled on all keyboards? It's way more useful than, say, caps lock. (mine is mapped to right control)

Everything, of course, includes everything in the graph as well. That's not a static image and elements can be hidden, shown, animated, zoomed, transformed, and the like. The milestone markers will need a slight repositioning at the smaller size.

Thinking of maybe doing something like this for a future video. The segment title animates when it changes and everything you see has a banquet of script bindings. #QML

Cat almost fell off the couch.

Time for belly rubs

Clearly what this needs is more hexagons.

Dark mode? The yellow mark is easier to read at least.