Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Some boxes arrived today that are marked as having dimensions 9x9x5x5 so now I have to wonder how many seconds are in 5 inches along the 4th dimension?

It seems that even with the water heater leak I still have the smallest possible water bill short of disconnecting from the utility. A benefit of living alone (the cat doesn't drink that much water).

Bought another ~1.5 tons (US) of coffee today.

I wonder what this said before it was run through Google Translate.

I need to clean that carpet.

TIL piano for elephants is a thing. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzSEchvesNHbIdXClhtq1JoBgOx8D6378

Lately I've been able to spend more time working on that coffee roasting book I've been writing on and off. I hope to finish that and publish it some day, maybe sell a few copies.

Bad cat allergy night.

2600 is an acceptable score at which to retire from chest_bot, I think.

@chest_bot feed dragon

Looks like channel 4 used my little interview segment. I didn't catch it on air. https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/west-racine-is-getting-its-first-bar-in-more-than-100-years

Police should never be allowed to direct traffic. They are universally terrible at it.

Hordak was better when he had enough screen time to play the middle manager of evil, but that's my only complaint about new SheRa and it's a very minor one.

The cat has informed me that it's time to hug the cat.

The last person was kind of screwy though. Clearly anti-bar and was pointing at the three churches on the street and I'm just thinking first,Jesus was pretty clearly not a prohibitionist, second, in the grand scheme of things churches have probably caused more societal harm than bars.

More people wanted to talk to me about the bar that might be opening down the street and I don't understand why. It's not my bar, while I wouldn't be opposed to selling coffee to them there haven't been any conversations about that yet, I'm not on any of the boards that would need to approve this, and if anything they'd be direct competitors. My position is that I'm not going to get bent out of shape over yet another bar opening in a city that has lots of bars already.

New candy shipment arrived today but one of the items was marked with a best by date of today so I'm not selling/paying for that. The rest of the order was fine so now I have chocolates wrapped up to look like ladybugs. I wish the hedgehogs were sold unbundled. Those always sell fast.

They also got video of the end of a big batch of coffee from Papua New Guinea.

Talked to the TV crew so people in SE WI might be able to see me on TMJ4.