Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Have the Bubble Bobble tune in my head. Maybe I'll replay Yoiyami Dreamer (aka Touhou Bubble Bobble) tonight.

So much sneezing

Arrived at work to find a 50 pound coffee order. That's the cutoff for free shipping but they're close enough I might just do the delivery run myself.

Nobody else on the street is making alternative parking arrangements. Would not be surprised if everybody else gets towed or trapped in their driveway once the contractors get around to rebuilding the street. I'm using the free lot half a block away because I can read.

Me: Hi, I'd like to buy one of your $10K machines but I have a few questions that I need answered before I can do that.
Salesperson at trade show: Sure, email that to me.
me (email): *questions*
salesperson: (no reply)
me (several days later from an alternate email address): *questions*
salesperson: (no reply)
me a couple months later: *calls phone number on business card, leaves voicemail*

It shouldn't be this hard to spend several thousands of dollars. I want to buy, take the easy sale.

(the capsule type is slightly different and there's a small difference in the box art, but otherwise it's the same thing, though I do wish they sold this stuff from a bottle instead of blister packs. Blister packs are a terrible idea.)

Used up the last of my allergy medicine so I've obtained a fresh supply. The way the product options are organized it's challenging to find which package provides the best value. And then you have to hope things were stocked properly when you have two boxes of the same count of the same dose of the same active ingredient in the same brand at different price points.

One of my videos is up to 994 likes on YouTube (only took 7.5 years to get there but it's still one of the better videos out there for the material it covers). Will it hit 1000 by the end of the month? Maybe.

Watch it ad-free on the #PeerTube network: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/a4aecb05-2e2b-4b80-a532-b1a78155139b

It's disappointing, but I don't see any reason to expect that they're not going to make this right and frankly it's better that a problem like this happens to someone like me than someone who urgently needs that particular machine to work. I can keep using my IR-1 for sample roasting and work on different aspects of my software while I wait for this to get resolved. The time zone situation is kind of obnoxious, though, since they're based in London (I get email between 4-7AM and I work closing).

New roaster is packed back in its case and in the original shipping box to go back for warranty repair (since it arrived in a non-functional state).

It looks like the motor only has two modes: full blast (meaning any coffee put into the machine is immediately expelled and it's moving more air than the heating element can heat so it never comes up to its pre-heat) and off. Also, once the machine notices a problem and puts on the purple light it takes 6-7 hours rest to do even that again.

yep, still allergic to the cat.

Used the last of my wok oil and a spicy sauce that was about to expire. Need to remember I'll want more of those next time I make this.

Giant bowl of stir fry is ready to eat.

It looks like the I-Pass will work all along any reasonable route on the next trip as long as I avoid the I-75/85 express lanes in GA (non-express lanes are free).

Unfortunately there are 2 or 3 states I'll be driving through that aren't compatible with this so I'll have to do some route research and see if there are tolls in those states and what I should expect.

Finally got around to updating my I-Pass account to have a current credit card on it. I'm just assuming there will be tolls I can use that on when I take my next planned trip. Probably would have been fine since I've got something like $16 in the account, but now I can delete the reminder email.

Further investigation into the whole new roaster isn't working situation reveals that it's reporting a motor fault.

While the roaster isn't working, it does come in a very nice case. Basically roller luggage with a foam insert cut to hold the machine, its parts, and a stack of sample cards securely. Pretty sure it's sized appropriately to be a carry on bag.