Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

... and it's not getting through its pre-heat

Box of coffee roaster has been delivered.

The grocery store I shop at regularly has an affordable pack of pre-sliced veggies that they claim is for fajitas, but it's a good mix for a low fuss stir fry. I think I'll have that after work today.

A customer today wanted to pray for me to no longer have cat allergies. I don't expect that to have any effect, but I also don't see the harm in it as long as I don't do something stupid like throw away my allergy medicine.

DHL got the new roaster to Milwaukee early enough this morning to get it out for delivery today. I don't know where I am along their route, but if it shows up today that's a day sooner than the original estimate (from the manufacturer, not from DHL themselves who thought it would be delivered 3 days ago)

Some excerpts from episodes of Coffee and Code that might have more interesting titles.

The coffee roaster doesn't seem to be moving any closer over the weekend so I'm guessing it's not going to show up Monday, but Tuesday is probably likely. The manufacturer originally said it would show up Tuesday, but maybe a little sooner or later depending on customs. It was DHL who initially came up with a Friday estimate that turned out to be unrealistic. Now they're not even trying to provide an estimate. I'm sure CBP is just confused trying to keep track of what tariffs are in effect today

Cat tongue

My arm has become a cat pillow.

Not only does oat seem to be more compatible with my drink line than almond, it's also not going to raise the same kind of allergy flags that an almond milk offering would. Food allergies are a serious concern.

Trying some additional drinks with the oat milk I'm testing as a candidate for a non-cow, non-soy option. It's passed all of my hot drink tests so far, so next I'll be moving on to the cold drink tests. Staff has been asking people who ask for almond milk (it's always almond milk they're asking for) if they're set on almond or if some other non-cow, non-soy option would also be acceptable and they're at least saying that some other alternative would be acceptable. Real test will be if they buy.

Punk likes this pillow. She uses the arm while I use the back.

Fired is a word. It's a word that would make sense. Fire'd, not so much. Maybe it's an extraterrestrial thing? I've never eaten there.

The cat was very talkative when I got home from work today. She calmed down after a hug.

YouTube viewer retention data suggests that only about 10% of the people who start watching an episode of Coffee and Code make it to the end of the episode (which makes the 8% of views from someone who hits the like button on the latest episode pretty amazing) so I'm thinking I might chop those episodes up with some of the best excerpts pulled out into separate videos with better titles that then link back to the original video.