Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The furniture/appliance moving I agreed to help with went better than anticipated.

I did show one of them how to get into the yard so they could do that and reassured them that I'd far rather they just retrieved their balls on their own than pester me about it, though I can understand not wanting to trespass on stranger neighbor's property, especially if you're a person of color in America not wanting to get shot (I have no intention of owning a gun and wouldn't shoot a kid getting his ball back even if I did, but I know that's not universally true).

It looks like one of the neighbor kids got his ball out of my back yard while I was at work. I noticed it this morning and since there are now people playing who could confirm it was theirs before I tossed it over I was going to do that, but I don't have to because the ball isn't there anymore.

Found and fixed another bug.

Updated the shop's web site to put the new Guatemalan coffee up for sale there and the couple days the shop will be closed for Labor Day.

Ran into one of my customers at the grocery store. We were both disappointed by the inadequate stocking. She was on her third store. I can't be bothered to hit more than one per day so I'm just doing without.

While looking for something else this morning I found a big pile of Nintendo DS games I didn't even realize I was missing.

It's still hot out so it's another round of night roasting. Last night the cat yelled at me for getting home so late, having forgotten that I also left the house much later in the day.

Due to the heat I'm switching to night roasting to give the AC a chance to keep up. That's also a good time to recharge the water softeners and change the filters.

Hard to believe it's been September for over three decades now.

Evaluated roast progressions on two more coffees from recent shipments, but I don't have time to do production test batches today and have tomorrow scheduled as a work from home day (might come in after closing anyway to do some equipment maintenance that's hard to do when the shop is open) so I'll delay getting those out on the shelf for a couple more days.

It was a missing quote.

Took the time to get to the bottom of another bug blocking the release of the next version of CRUCS.

Nevermind, the old good thing is still there. They just hid it a little better.

One of my suppliers seems to have made their web site worse. They used to have a very good CSS for printing orders that saved on both toner and paper. That's been replaced with a slightly worse in both areas PDF download that takes too many clicks to get and printing directly from the web page is just awful in paper waste now.

My 2nd choice of lunch had banana splits on the menu and after the bad experience at my first pick I think I needed the ice cream.

First place I tried to get lunch said they were only taking online orders. So I could pull out my phone and order online, but they couldn't just take my order directly? WTF.

One of my employees currently on vacation texted to let me know she liked the coffee recommendations I gave her for the city she's in.

The cat yelled at me for bringing home take out for dinner since she knows this would delay her getting to sit on me as I'd want to eat the food while it's still hot.

The cat thought I should stay home from work today and just pet the cat, but there's work that needs doing.