Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Goat 2 Meeting is apparently a thing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-video-goat-2-meeting-llama-sweet-farm-animals-cameo-2020-4

One of my technical reviewers has finished writing her book so I'll be reading hers while she's reading mine. I've worked with her on education projects before so I'm really looking forward to seeing what she's come up with. The other people I've asked to review my book prior to publication should also write their own books

Based on asking around and the previous unscientific poll here, the last price that I floated for the ebook is probably too low. How does $31.25 sound? https://roastingbook.coffee/rcpd/

Filed sales tax for the publishing company. The book isn't out yet so sales are 0 and there's a convenient check box for reporting 0. Hopefully the comments from reviewers come in soon so I can do final revisions and start selling that. I suppose I could do a pre-order thing, but I don't want to.

The monthly fluff emails from Shippo have always seemed suspect (especially the $ saved), but the latest one seems especially improbable.

My mother got her virus stimulus, but it also included money for my dead father. Have asked an accountant if that's right and advised Mom to not spend half of that in case the IRS decides to claw that back.

The cat has decided to relax on my legs. She's upset that I won't let her shove her head into a bag of day old muffins.

Also, I cleared the Pain Area in Death end re;Quest. I'm doing a NG+ play through to finish up the platinum trophy requirements so I tackled that over-leveled enough that the challenge was only in how tedious the area could be. With the rewards from clearing that, Shina is up at level 176, everybody has equipment upgrades, and I've got enough money to buy my way out of the fetch quests if I'm unlucky with collection points.

My accountant says my personal taxes are finished. I'll be getting over $1000 back from the state and I'm having the federal over-payment applied to the 2020 tax year as usual.

Shop is closed today. I should fire up the home espresso machine.

I've been informed that it is once again time for cat hugs.

I feel like I'm transforming into Dino Mask. That's a bit worrying as people with Mask in their name are never good role models.

The cat has decided my elbow is a pillow.

Today I got an answer about why one of the grocery stores in the area has a family of giant inflatable lions. The owner of the store is on some board for the local zoo and the lions are decorations for one of their no doubt cancelled or postponed fundraisers. The grocery store is just storing the lions until they're needed.

Probably for the best that what I finished wasn't what I started working on since that's projected to be about 5x longer.

It's taking longer than I hoped for the technical review on my book to be completed. I've sent some gentle prodding, but as one reviewer put it, "The length and details of your work are daunting." So that's where the delay is coming from now. I'm going to continue waiting on that feedback because as much as I'd like to start getting some income from the book, I asked for the review because I think that's going to result in a better book going out.

Mom's cat was pretending to help me scan documents, but she really just wanted to eat tissues.

morning meeting with the cat

Credit union just sent out word that there's a smishing scam happening in the area. I was unaware that smishing was a word.