Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

While the credit union couldn't see their way to a yes on a car loan (I'll have to rethink continuing a relationship with them because if they don't have my back when I need help then what good are they?) my sister is going to help me out with that.

New Peruvian coffee is up on the web site. I only brought in 30Kg of this and I've already roasted a third of that so it won't be available for long.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

After calling the person who was handling my car loan (car needs either replacement or an engine that costs more than half the price of that replacement) application and asking her to check her spam box for the documents she wanted that I emailed Monday (sure enough, there they were), they're not interested in being useful. So that sucks.

I still haven't seen a coconut in #GenshinImpact so the Cocogoat existing in an area saved for later exploration remains a possibility.

Santa Claus is not coming to town. You know why.

It took less than 24 hours to sell out of my first production batch of that. I'll roast more later today.

I guess I'm a cat bed now.

It looks like people are finally starting to buy the Christmas Sloth mugs.

It's not on the web site yet, but the new Peruvian coffee is available in store now.

I've just been informed that it's cat hug time.

My favorite Christmas tree growing up was the year we had this little hand made thing about 2 inches tall that some kid was going door to door selling so he could afford to buy presents. Set it up on a snack tray, put the presents under that. No decorating/undecorating, no watering, barely any transporting, no issues with disposal. Proper trees always seem like too much hassle.

Tasting my next limited edition coffee. Production test batch turned out the way I expected. It's on the lighter side of a dark roast and has a flavor reminiscent of sweet apples if you imagine that both in coffee and good.

Updated the shop's web site. This change removes the note that we're closed Thanksgiving, adds the holiday closed/closing early info for Christmas and New Years, and provides information on what we're doing for our traditional start of the year charity fundraiser. Online sales January 1-3, 20% of the the total (including shipping) is going to Racine County Food Bank. 20% of in store and phone sales January 2-3 (we're closed on January 1) will similarly be donated.

The cat is wet. Why is the cat wet?

Trying to get loan pre-approval for a car (I found a low mileage thing that's basically the same as what I've got only 8 years newer and with a nicer feature package for less than double what the repairs on my current car would run) and it's being complicated because I'm self employed so my "pay stubs" don't have any useful information on them. My sister lost my tax filings (she's in charge of the office stuff) so I'm waiting on my accountant to send an electronic copy of those.

2020 is the year that just keeps giving. Car repair estimate came back and it's far enough outside of my budget that I'll just be replacing the vehicle. Ugh.

Car needs a new engine. My mechanic is looking for a couple options but pretty much no matter what I do this is going to cost substantially more than I was hoping.

My favorite part of a post getting popular on fedi is seeing everybody's cool domain names.

It's time to pet the cat.