Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Booked the room for my April trip to Portland, OR. The cheapest option through the event portal was also right across the street from the venue. I gather it's not the greatest hotel, but it's not like I'm going to be spending a ton of time in the room anyway so cheap and convenient wins. Nothing is outside my walking with luggage range from the train station either, so I can just do that.

Did a lot of writing on Christmas but the page count remained the same.

I live with a good cat.

Trying out the fresh box

Mom's cat appears to be a big Wheel of Fortune fan. She likes the sound the wheel makes.

Just a heads up: I'm not making any more of this year's Holiday Blend after January 1 so if anybody wants some of that, get your orders in before then.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Tonight after work I get to test out 3D printed toilet parts. The last flushing handle I purchased turned out to be a piece of junk so I figure I can't have done worse than that at least.

Got notified that someone left the shop a new review. Great coffee, not enough seating. Fun facts: we have the maximum number of chairs allowed without needing to add more bathrooms and I'm not aware of any other coffee shop in Racine with more seating (every other place I've been in has far less). What they really mean is we're too popular.

Ordered more coffees, mostly decaf, won't ship until after Christmas. Also, I have an approved coffee buying plan and budget for 2020!

Got donuts and bread at the bakery this morning before work (yay!). They were very busy (yay!) but having trouble operating the till (groan, too many people trying to use 1 register at the same time, my order got charged correctly but the 2 people in front of me had issues).

Oh hey, Hatsune Miku is coming back to Chicago in 2020.

Yes, ice cream makes it tolerable. Still glad it's just a tiny bottle as I doubt I'd bother to drink a full sized bottle of this even if it is free.

The regifted whiskey is sickeningly sweet. Maybe it would be better paired with ice cream? Let's find out.

This is after Ryza basically builds a house in the forest so she can run away from home to become a witch.

#AtelierRyza This is the kind of quality goat content I like to see in video games.

Tonight's beverages include a tiny bottle of regifted whiskey (I've poured it into a glass).

4AM, time to pet the cat.