Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Solo, I can clear it in about a minute and a half with a party of Anemo traveller, Klee, Fischl, and Qiqi (and sometimes be at full health at the end of that). Nobody needs to yell at Klee.

How bad was it? Here's how my co-op attempt went:

1. Set Klee as my character for co-op.
2. Make sure I'm at full health and warm.
3. Go to the challenge marker, get matched to co-op.
4. Get white loading screen. (ugh)
5. When the game comes back, the challenge is already in progress, Klee has 0HP, there's a revive prompt.
6. Revived Klee is on the other side of a force field unable to help and Diluc is yelling at her to click the light.
7. There was no light.
8. Challenge failed.

Finished cleaning out the event shop in the current Genshin Impact event. I had to do the challenges solo because co-op was unplayably awful.

The shop is closed today, but the web site is open and our New Year's Day (except this year extending to the 3rd) fundraiser for Racine County Food Bank has started. Until end of day January 3, 20% of all sales will be donated (includes shipping, doesn't include sales tax but whole bean coffee isn't taxable in Wisconsin). Web orders placed today will get roasted tomorrow.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Last night's tech support excursion was a success. My mother is now paying $100 less per month (dropping television and a phone line she wasn't using) and getting Internet (that she does use) that's 8x as fast.

Mom's cat was really into my laptop bag.

Time to be tech support for my mother. I suspect she needs to offer more clarity because she's trying to cancel cable television (which she doesn't watch) but I suspect she would like to keep the Internet (which she uses heavily) and it's not clear to me that she made that distinction clear to the cable company that provides both of those services.

The cat has been staying warm today.

Got a good amount of book editing done today. That's taking way too long, but I'll have a few days off soon during which I'll try to be more productive on that.

I keep a snack tray next to the cat seat. It's the perfect height for the cat to use to scritch her own chin.

The cat forgot why she was sitting on a box.

This took a little longer than expected as I missed that the configuration diff showed a section moved down to the bottom so I kept the old section and added the new section. Duplicated top level yaml keys cause the service to not start at all.

There was a brief service interruption on https://video.typica.us while I upgraded that to PeerTube 3.0.0-rc1. Everything should be working normally again now.

The shooting star charm gives Lucky the power to fly while the red balloon gives Lucky the power to float (through the sky, not in water) and I feel like General Mills just got lazy with the lore design there. And why does he need either of those when the rainbow charm gives Lucky the power of teleportation, which can easily be abused for a float/fly similar effect as well.

lots of smoke produced while cooking tonight's dinner, but it tastes good.

For people in the US who might be running out of coffee soon, web site sales are included in the fundraiser, so if you get your order placed between January 1 and January 3 (inclusive, Central time zone), 20% of the total (including shipping) will be donated to Racine County Food Bank.

Updated the shop's web site. Christmas hours have been removed, the new decaf Sumatra has been added (but it's below the New Years hours and start of the year charity fundraiser info because I expect more guests of the site will be interested in that information)

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

time for a coffee