Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Only a third of one of my coffee orders showed up today.

How to make a delicious ice cream:

Step 1. Name it after a forest creature.

It's time for the cat to tell me about her day.

SCA is still sending out email advertising the sold out workshop I'm teaching. We're doing a 2nd one a month later but I don't think registration for that one is available yet.

It looks like a company might be sending me a free prototype of their next thing to get design validation. I'm not going to get more specific than that because I don't want to spoil their product launch, but I'm excited to see what they've come up with. I think it's a thing that we chatted about a couple years ago.

Laundry is in the wash, dinner is in the oven, hanging out with the cat.

Today's boxes of coffee going in the mail previously contained raisins (10 pounds) and packets of artificial sweetener (1000).

Looks like I get another trip to the post office tomorrow.

Can gas prices crash again? My tank is almost empty again.

You can't charge a convenience fee without a CON.

Writing lots of personal checks this month. License plate renewal (went up), water bill (had yet another fee tacked onto it), property tax. Anybody who wants to charge a "convenience fee" for taking payment in a way that ought to be cheaper and easier for them gets stuck with paper checks in the mail.

Got word that another employee is coming back to work soon. That just leaves one part timer whose parents aren't letting her out of the house.

Shippo fluff stats email is weird again. It says my boxes travelled 23 miles in April... to reach 9 states. That's so far off that it doesn't even make sense as a per shipment mean. It could /maybe/ be a median distance, but I think they're just making numbers up instead of bothering to do the sums.

Another event I normally teach at got cancelled.

Started playing Gris last night (it's on sale). I don't expect it'll have a lot of replay value for me, but I'm enjoying it so far. I've gotten far enough in that it's building dramatic tension but doing it without presenting the player with risk of punishment (no death traps, no game overs, failed attempts at solving the puzzles don't require tons of backtracking).

Just ordered a bunch of coffee. Things that aren't on the offering list now but will be going up over the next couple weeks as the coffees arrive and I figure out how I'm roasting them include coffees from Costa Rica, Yemen, and Java, those last 2 will also get a Mocha Java Blend.

What's the cat getting into?

Office supply delivery came with a coupon for $100 off a case of wine, which seems like an odd thing to include with index cards and shipping labels, but whatever.