Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

If anybody wanted to start a Takuya Holding Things blog, here's something to start with. #GenshinImpact

Laptop failed to start up multiple times. Systemd won't get me to a login prompt. Dig around as best I can and it looks like a hardware issue. Open the case, remove the dust, fail to find anything in the obvious and easy fix category, try turning it on again before putting the case back, it's working flawlessly. Hopefully that continues to be true once I've finished copying some files off the encrypted drive, turn it off, and put the case back on.

Specialty Coffee Association sent me a new pin as thanks for my work on an education program that I quit the committee making that in protest of the organization's terrible stewardship of that. My name will be in materials I'll never see unless someone leaks it to me because I'm not a "real instructor." These days they just let me make up my own classes independent of that program because my workshops get good reviews and keep selling out. I don't really get it.

I tried the new healer artifact set in #GenshinImpact on my Qiqi and the most common advice about how to build this set on her is wrong (if you main Qiqi).

https://www.hoyolab.com/article/1610218

Woke up to discover some joke comment I made on a web forum blew up and has more likes than the parent post has views. Not sure how that happens, but I suspect it's another case of computers not knowing how to count.

Once again, I need to buy food.

Web site for the shop updated. No longer mentions being closed on Thanksgiving, coffee from Costa Rica available for sale through the web site.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Local COVID case numbers bringing the risk level back up to severe. It didn't need to be like this, but I don't think it's surprising to anybody working in retail.

Got a Christmas card from my chocolate and vanilla powdered smoothie mix supplier.

Idea for a new gameshow: Jazz or Cat. Contestants listen to a short passage and need to identify if what they're hearing is a jazz solo or a meowing cat.

New part isn't tuned so initial warm up takes approximately forever. Will need to check the manual and see if it'll let me just outright disable the derivative term.

Right now the old controller is in its pre-hard fail mode just sometimes not bothering to send power to the heating elements where turning it off and then on again usually fixes it, but that means it's only a matter of time before that fails more completely so it's better to just swap the part now.

Received a new part for the heat sealer. What arrived wasn't the cutout size I was expecting, but it is the size of the original panel which I removed a few controllers ago. Dug out the old panel, mounted the new controller in it, and that's ready for installation once the current packing shift is done.

Has there been a Christmas movie in which some awful spoiled kid's parents get killed, he asks the mall (real) Santa to bring his parents back, and Santa necromancies the parents back as zombies?

I suspect people will end up parking there illegally anyway, especially if they're police.

Signage changed so there's no longer legal parking directly in front of my shop. That space is now a bus stop that used to be earlier on the street but can't be there anymore because of changes in the sidewalk. Parking options include going a little farther down the street and walking less than a block, parking on the side street, or there's a 2 hour free section of parking lots off the nearest side street that businesses in the area pay to keep un-metered.

Last night the cat stepped in a glue trap and made sad noises until I removed her foot from it. She's usually smart enough to not do that, but at least it was just the bottom of one foot and not rolling around getting a bunch of fur stuck in it. After that she wanted extra cuddles.

Punk does not seem to have made any of the lists of top cat names in 2021.

I wish I had a donut.