Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Purchased train tickets to get to/from the event in April. Am not doing the full Chicago-Portland Empire Builder route because nobody wants to drop me off in Chicago when I could take the train from Sturtevant-Milwaukee and transfer on there instead. Same route back. Have a roomette for the Milwaukee-Portland leg.

Scene from tonight's dream: I was sitting in a newly delivered industrial mecha when I got an email notification that I needed to fill out some customs paperwork for the mecha despite that already having been delivered. Looking at the form, most of the items had already been filled out and crossed out and none were things that would exist on an actual customs declaration.

Cat makes a good foot warmer.

There's a cat on my foot.

Had a dream in which, thinking it was something else, I picked up what turned out to be a mostly black brochure that kept unfolding itself at an unnaturally regular pace and with a sound effect every time a new panel revealed itself. As I wondered how big that was going to get, I looked over and my catgirl's hair was on fire, but I was seeing that from an angle that's impossible with my furniture layout and I didn't like where this was going so I ended the dream.

That's getting some dark roast flavor but not to the point that I'm losing body and the sweet apricot note really pops here. Flavors continue to hold up as the coffee cools.

Each cup was delicious so the new coffee from Sumatra makes the cut for things to recommend to home roasters (you can end the roast about anywhere and won't have messed up too badly), but I want something around here to sell.

Figuring out how I want to roast new coffee from yesterday's delivery.

Someone commented that my cat was adorable but then they deleted their comment.

Is Punk fediverse famous yet?

Apparently parrot.vc generated, "With a powerful narrative, you should be able to go from raw materials to a launch ready vehicle in 60 days." I'd like to remind everybody that that's pretty much how Patchouli built her moon rocket.

Sometimes I wonder if the cat is copying me or if I'm just being cat-like. As a child I was raised by a cat so either is plausible.

I saw the cat playing with luggage and when she noticed I was looking at her she looked straight at me and went *MEOW*

Got to talk about hot pot at work today. That's the meal that got me to learn how to use chopsticks. I looked at that and said something like, "I don't see how that's going to work if I don't learn to use chopsticks," so that's what I did.

Just got the code for free attendance at my next event since I'm teaching a class there. Unless something else comes up super last minute before then my next event is in Portland, OR this April. I'm considering taking the train since Amtrak runs a Chicago to Portland route and I've never done such a long trip by rail.