Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Skipped Albedo's banner to save for Ganyu. That worked out well for me.

Needed to turn off NPR's special coverage of you probably know what. Thankfully I had the foresight to set up the car's sound system so that Miku was one steering wheel button press away.

Traffic is bad today, mostly because maintenance vehicles are choosing the absolute most obnoxious places to stop that they can possibly find and they're doing that in every part of town all at the same time.

My sister just asked me to use my phone to take a picture of a printout and attach it to an email. The printout was an attachment from an email that arrived on the same computer as the outgoing mail was getting sent from so instead of doing that I suggested that we could instead drag the attachment from the email that came from and drop it in the email she was trying to send so we could just send the original file instead of round tripping through my phone.

The cat was shoving her face into the old clogs I only use for going into the basement.

Can any #GenshinImpact players confirm that weapon prototype drop rates have been fixed or was I just crazy lucky to get one from both Tartaglia and Dvalin this week?

Multiple Typica related emails to reply to today. Work on that program has been slowed considerably because there are both no outside code contributions and donations in support of ongoing development only came to about $170 for all of 2020 so I spent my time on work that lets me not die of exposure or starvation. (And though there are many ways I'd like to improve it, my immediate needs for the program are all met.)

It looks like lots of puzzles have recently been returned to the community puzzle exchange. That was getting pretty picked over, especially for the popular 300-500 piece sizes. The selection is still proportionally overweighted on the less popular 1000-2000 piece sizes, but there are enough puzzles in total that people should be able to find something they're comfortable with doing.

Me: *intends to go into work a little earlier than usual*
Cat: *jumps up on me and curls up for a nap*
Cat: *purring intensifies*

Playing a scenario in Project Highrise (basically SimTower). I've completed all the objectives, provide all the amenities, and ended up with more money than I can possibly spend so I've lowered everybody's rent to 0 while waiting for buzz to build and yet still have a bunch of empty apartments.

Washed some dishes, heated up some leftovers, now it's time to hang out with the cat.

Some water kettles that were backordered until tomorrow got delivered today. The same order had some less expensive kettles also backordered until tomorrow which have not yet arrived.

I've been regifted about a third of a box of peanut brittle. It's not bad.

Did some roaster maintenance today. Ended up using a surprisingly large number of tools to pull parts out and put them back in better.

The latest shipment of Earl Grey tea is fluffier so to keep the bag looking attractive the amount in the larger size bag will be reduced. The price will also be reduced so that it's the same price per pound as it was. Web site is updated, in store purchases will have the quantity/price swapped once we sell out of the previous shipment.

I had to tell people to go away and stop talking to me because I kept getting the math on the new price obviously wrong.

So last night's dream had several groups of characters who mostly weren't interested in each other arranged throughout an old Chinese mansion. There were a couple people going around with guns trying to loot the place but nobody really cared about them aside from sometimes begrudgingly unlocking a door for them. Then there was a gap and suddenly I was chatting with some of the non-looters in the Denver airport and I didn't have my luggage. Then I woke up.