Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat will not be pleased tonight. I still don't have a street or driveway access so I'll need to carry her about a block to get to the car for the trip to my sister's place. Since I'm driving alone she'll need to be in her carrier which she does not like.

Got phone calls from two people who work for other coffee companies today. I enjoy getting those calls.

A recent ad that hit the shop's inbox suggested that I buy an internet domain name for my baby.

1. To the best of my knowledge I don't have a baby
2. Is that really a thing? Like, shouldn't a child be old enough to have The Internet Safety Talk before they get their own domain?
3. They should pick their domain instead of being stuck with their lame dad's choice.

Today's fortune cookie says to "address the elephant in the room," which I take to mean, "post more on Mastodon," so here we are.

Have the external optical drive plugged in to rip some fresh driving music. I still think it's neat that I can just use the file manager to drag and drop virtual MP3s from CD and the ripping and transcoding just happens in the background as part of the file copy operation. #kde

Trying the gift beer and yeah, it's quite tasty. I can taste the coffee and overall it's very smooth and easy to drink. Pairs well with cheesecake.

related: I had no idea there were so many kinds of oreos these days.

Bought a supply of driving snacks and beverages for the trip to GA. I'll want to stop for a real meal at some point but having some stuff I can grab without taking my eyes off the road will be essential.

"DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons)" is the wrong headline. Correct headline should read, "DARPA DOS'd themselves, no hack required."

If you don't have at least 5 cups are you even really drinking coffee?

How to drink coffee:

Step 1: Get ALL your cups.
...

#coffee

It looks like I might have a shortage of station instructors for my next class so I've been working out equivalent roasting plans for the IKAWA that can be done ahead of time with minimal coffee to fill in on the tasting side. One of the nice things about this is that I can publish those plans for people to replicate the exercise with their own coffees.

A customer dropped off a gift bottle of beer. He says it's the best porter he's ever brewed and it's made with my decaffeinated Sumatran coffee. Beer that I get paid for is my favorite kind, so now I need to adjust my dinner plans so I can enjoy that tonight.

cat posture

$28 to see 15 movies from 11 countries, most from 2017-2018, but also a 2015, a 2016, and a 1960.