Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

There were three samples. The first was not a bad coffee, just one with an extremely common flavor profile. I can get something equivalent from pretty much anybody selling coffee from that country. The second had quite a few red flags that warn me away from it. It's the sort of coffee that less experienced tasters might think are really good when evaluating a sample but then discover it's kind of nasty in production. The third one lacked dry fragrance, but everything else was fantastic.

Last night I sent an email to someone who sent me some coffee samples. Oddly, the reply didn't come with a sales pitch for the one coffee that I said was exceptionally good. I took a while to bother running the samples through the roaster on account of the prevalence of physical defects on the coffees I enjoyed less so maybe they already sold it all (plus it's not like I asked about pricing and such since I already work with too many suppliers, which I mentioned before he sent the samples).

How did I not notice that weird touhou racing game got a US Playstation release?

me: *trying to sort through today's mail*
cat (screaming): WHY ARE YOU NOT HUGGING THE CAT RIGHT NOW!?

(she calms down once she's had some hugs time)

I found what the cat did.

I asked the cat if she was good while I was at work and she answered no, so now I need to figure out what she did.

Someone is trying to make a coffee delivery. Hopefully they're able to navigate the road construction that their GPS wanted to send them through. (I suggested a better route, but they weren't able to find the streets on their map so...)

cat: look at me, I've got stuff on my face and I can't get it off.
cat: oh, you want to help? let me give you a tour of the house first.

Tried to heal, got struck by lightning instead. #GenshinImpact

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/6f2ab536-7b6c-42a9-847b-b382ae6fedcf

cat: ceilings are AWESOME!!!

It's cake time.

I'm not sure why the cat thinks my elbow is a good pillow.

I'm not at all surprised by this. The place has been mis-managed for a long time, pulling stuff like kicking out long time tenants right after they've done a contractually required renovation because a bigger store (that's also not there anymore) wanted the space, vending machines to compete with their food vendors, bad rent terms that make it really hard for smaller stores to break even, &c. So it's mostly empty. Unless you want Miku shirts or pretzels.

The vaccination site that I went to was set up in what used to be a big store at the mall. The mall has definitely seen better days, but here's what you can buy at the local shopping mall: Hatsune Miku shirts, big pretzels. That's about it.

Got my shot. #covid

The cat is talkative tonight.

Got my vaccination appointment reminder email today. Getting jabbed tomorrow.

Email from a company that offers an expensive proprietary competitor to free software I wrote before they started: Our new feature solves another problem!

Me: Yes it does, that's why I implemented it in my software over a decade ago.