Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It's always nice when industry people stop by the shop for a visit. Had a good conversation with Phyllis Johnson over some coffee from Burundi.

Good morning. Pet the cat.

There's also a new fairy with bird puzzle by the same artist who did the dragon witch.

There's a glut of 1000 piece puzzles now after someone dropped off a lot of those. This eco-friendly bird puzzle looks like a good one to try.

Between phone calls of varying importance (some not at all, others extremely) and working with a new person who started training today, I've done far too much talking.

Getting a visit from a professional colleague tomorrow. We've cupped coffees together in Ethiopia and she's good at finding nice African coffees that I want to buy. It's been a while since our last chat so it'll be nice to catch up.

Pitched the idea of another company paying me to take a road trip and setting up free software at a bunch of coffee roasting facilities. I don't know if they'll go for it, but that would be fun.

(psst. you can totally hire me to take a road trip to all your stores and do free software stuff and/or roaster training)

From another company I picked some good new Halloween stuff. I wish they'd sell the hedgehog chocolates separately instead of bundling those with others but they don't so I skipped those. Also did a hard pass on shelf elf.

I like the new Chistmas packaging. Critters in sweaters is a much better choice than what Seattle has done the past couple years. I ordered a lot. Hope it sells.

Rugrats video game: putting the crawl in dungeon crawl.

Lightning Returns... for Roy Cleveland Sullivan

Grocery store has locally grown cherry cider. So good.

Spending quality time with the cat.

How to be a good son when you live alone: cook yourself a dinner and text a photo of it to your mother so she knows you're eating something decent. You don't have to do it often.

Staff facing stuff for the web shop is basically done now.

There's a little more than a week before my next trip and I have too many projects.

Other things on the list of things to do today: ongoing training for new staff, finishing up the staff facing side of the web store (should just be sending the customers an email with their receipt and tracking number), and maybe if I have time for it getting more product pages put together and making those not look awful.