Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Sent my California sister a cat picture for her birthday.

The new chapter would be very data heavy and in a sense it might look like I'm padding things out, but there's educational value here and it's supportive of several of the main points I try to present in training.

I think the book might need another chapter. My normal editing process makes things shorter, but for this book I might end up doubling the page count. I think I'll try to finish editing the rest of the book before making the decision on adding another chapter.

I've also been informed that the half gallon bottles that we've been out of for a while are being manufactured today so some time next week we should also be able to resume selling half gallon bottles of chai concentrate. I'll have to see how the gallons sell once that's back and decide if I want to keep selling those retail or go back to that being bar use/wholesale only.

Ordered more coffee. The selection of decafs available through the web site is pretty bad right now because I didn't want to accidentally take orders I couldn't fill promptly. I'll be able to fix that some time next week. I'm getting the last 3 bags in the Madison warehouse of the Sulawesi coffee I've been using a lot for training (some may or may not still be available out of Oakland, I know they had some there, too). Also adding a coffee from El Salvador to have something new on offer.

Hugged the cat. It's raining. She wants extra cuddles.

New chocolate bars arrived today so I'm giving up on selling the last bar featuring a moose wearing a scarf on the label. I'll just eat that one.

Arrived home to find the cat trying very hard to make a big dent in the top of the couch.

It's time to pet the cat.

Wow, the slightly less convenient to get in/out was 20 cents per gallon cheaper. Sold.

Need to buy gas today. The low gas light came on right after driving past the gas station on my way home from work yesterday.

The cat is talkative tonight.

Changed out my falling apart backpack for a lightly used bag I got at an event to use for carrying the laptop around. It's not ideal, but good enough until I decide what I want to do.

Getting in some good book edits today. While I do think that taking this release once it's ready approach will result in a better and more useful book, I am eager to have this done so I can move on to the next project.

I know nothing about this game, but the trophies look like an interesting mix. https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/11037-crypto-by-powgi

Another online order came in today. Normally I'd pack that up and carry it to the post office. There's a chute through the wall where boxes with postage can be dropped without having to interact with other humans, but that lobby is no longer open 24/7 and is closed today so there's no point to dealing with that today except to take the money a day earlier so I'll just wait. If more orders come in I'd rather deal with them all at once.

Drinking a tasty coffee from Yemen today. Prior to getting this, it had been a long time since I'd been able to source a good Yemeni coffee. War is bad for supply chains.

Someone lost their phone outside my shop a couple days ago and it would be nice if someone called them so we can figure out how to get that back to them. Instead we just know that people ring their doorbell a lot because they have some "smart" doorbell abomination that notifies the phone every time that happens.