Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

They're really pushing for the use of props in the video. Maybe I'll record it at home. Cat counts as a prop, right?

Was asked to put together a 30-60 second promo video for my online workshop. I've got the script for that written now it's just a matter of picking a nice looking quiet space to record that, editing, and the organization that's paying me for this wants an mp4 so I think just uploading it to my PeerTube might be the easiest way to get them appropriate download links at whichever unspecified resolution they want for their stream.

Is it time for ice cream? I feel like it's time for ice cream.

Today I'm staying late at work to roast more coffee. The cat will be disappointed.

The puzzle exchange is starting to look pretty picked over now. Probably a good thing that got moved into a business otherwise considered essential as a lot of people probably have more time to do puzzles and could have a harder time buying them.

It's time for cat hugs.

Renewed the typica.us domain.

Sony's PS5 robot friend accessory should be made available in catgirl and male catgirl.

Just got back 15 pages of notes from one of my technical reviewers. Overall he likes the book, which is a huge relief for me, and the feedback is exactly what I was hoping to get from him so that's going to be very helpful in making the finished book better.

I seem to be vibrating.

Not liking that someone had a temper tantrum because we wouldn't let them into the shop well after closing.

With all the extra online orders I'm driving more (post office is in the opposite direction from home) but I'm liking the extra-cheap gas. Cost less than $13 to fill the tank from where the low gas warning light comes on.

Finished packing orders for the day unless more orders come in within the next 40ish minutes.

The event I was going to be teaching at next is refunding attendees registrations because the college that's happening at will still be closed on the rescheduled date, so maybe that'll happen in August or September instead, but I've already got stuff scheduled out that far so I sent in my potential conflicts so organizers can be aware of those when picking a new date.

I'm thinking that it would be nice to have some videos coming out after the book is released that can be used as educational marketing materials and this gives me an excuse to talk more about decafs. A lot of the conventional wisdom around roasting decafs is outdated now that better coffees are getting decaffeinated and in light of ongoing process improvements, so what I did will look weird to a lot of people who haven't recently verified that their methods still apply.

There's a decaf coffee example in the upcoming book where I made a note of something to keep in mind if I needed to use the coffee as French Roast. Well, I'm out of the coffee I was using for decaf FR now so I went back to that section of the book, decided on a profile change that I thought would improve the results I was getting, tried it out, and now I'm tasting that and the profile change had exactly the effect I was hoping it would. Now I need to rework a couple blends.

Punk the cat says stay home and wash your hands.

March was my best month yet for coffee orders taken on the web site. I've matched that less than half way through April. Just got in another pack of regional rate B boxes for the larger orders.

Loud cat is loud.