Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

It's time to pet the cat.

Cocoa in Christmas packaging arrived today.

I keep that one at work and a different more basic keyboard at home because I tend to destroy laptop keyboards these days (nobody makes a good laptop keyboard anymore) and the rest of the computer is still fine.

One of the delivery drivers liked my keyboard. It gets a surprisingly large number of comments from people who see me using it, but all I did was go to a store, try out all the demo keyboards, and bought the one I liked the feel of best (which just happened to be some gamer keyboard with fancy lights [I leave mine to animate a rainbow across the keyboard] and a bunch of features I'll never use).

Web site update won't be today after all. We're just waiting on a return email from the food bank to make sure they're good with our plans and hammer out the final details, but the tentative plan is that we'll donate 20% of all sales on January 2-3 (and 20% of orders through the web site January 1-3, the shop will be closed on the 1st) as well as having an easy way for customers to leave food and money in the week prior.

Finalizing plans for the New Year's fundraiser. Should have a web site update with that information before the end of the day.

cat: what you're doing is great, but have you considered that you could be using this time to pet the cat?

And my grant application (WI DOR program for small businesses) got approved today, so that's helpful.

With the boxes that went out today, November has officially been my best month yet for sales through the web site. The previous best was back in April. It's also more than 9 times November web sales last year.

This time of year when it's getting dark before I get home I wonder if the cat would prefer I keep a light on for her or if she's fine being alone in the dark.

web site/app idea that I won't make, please steal: catchat - meet adoptable shelter cats in your area

The cat has decided that it's time for me to pet the cat.

cat: *purr*

Spent some time designing some new features for the shop's web store and working out how that's going to impact the database that drives that. I tried to minimize changes to existing tables and it looks like I only need to add one new column to one existing table. Everything else can be done with more tables, which I'm going to prefer on this project.

I have one of those tiny little USB storage thingies that's small enough I can keep it plugged into my laptop most of the time, but I recently noticed that it's really hard to pull out of other devices so I've tied a phone charm on it which makes that much easier to handle. I had one featuring Nisa that came with a video game (Disgaea 4, I think) still sitting unused in its original packaging. Usability has greatly improved.

Videos showing bugs in games go to my PeerTube server and not to other platforms because every so often a publisher goes insane and if they're going to pull that with me again they'll have to do it on my turf. Here's an unintentional glitch in Death end re;Quest 2. Pro tip: don't name your kid Rotten.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/1b8c7cb3-11e5-4204-a8ba-6dc966b5a184

Every time there's another Genshin Impact survey I use it as another opportunity to press for adding the ability to pet the cats and dogs. They look up to the traveler and clearly want some attention.

Thanksgiving food with the cat plan: a fresh batch of samosas, a chicken pot pie, and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.