Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Try 2.

Looks like it ran out of songs.

Enough people were willing to work New Year's Day so my shop is doing its usual start of the year charity event for the 24th consecutive year. All drink sales on January 1 will be donated to Racine County Food Bank. Additional cash donations will also be accepted and there's also a food collection box (though really, all the grocery stores have these so there probably won't be much in that).

Non-removable batteries is a serious contender for the dumbest idea in electronics product design.

The cat tried the roll around looking cute trick to try to get me to stay home instead of going to work. I don't think she understands the connection between going to work and bringing home cat food.

For those who haven't played that, it's like Love Live but with transforming mecha. Sometimes the giant robots get to dance.

No clue how many more songs just unlocked since the last time I played this, but I'm giving up for tonight.

New songs have been unlocking for more than an hour now. I might give up before I get to the end of this.

For anybody else playing that who hasn't tried this yet, I got a lot better when I took some time to figure out what speed I read the charts at best and just set all the difficulties to use that speed. The easier difficulties run way too slow by default.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be any bonus for these perfect full combos I'm getting on the first plays as these unlock. #YakDeculture

It's been a while since I played Uta Macross so it just keeps unlocking new songs.

Finally got around to opening my first of 2 bottles of the latest beer to include coffee that I roasted. It's pretty good.

The more vehemently a recipe claims to be "authentic" the worse it tastes. Good food doesn't need the appeal to authenticity.

Getting cat hugs. She greets me at the door every day after work.

You'd think that any large scale engagement with the Borg would give Starfleet enough time to offload civilians BEFORE the battle, but I guess nobody cares about that.

I still haven't tried that coffee beer that I was given recently. After forgetting to take it home the first night I just haven't had a good opportunity for it. I want to drink that with something on my stomach and not too late at night. One of my customers, however, has tried it, and says it's the best coffee beer he's ever had. Maybe I'll get to that tonight.

Drafted a letter resigning from a committee to send in the event that I don't get an acceptable response from SCA leadership prior to the next meeting. If there isn't a change in how they're approaching education (the new path, I feel, runs counter to the association's mission) I feel my efforts will be better spent on more broadly accessible training efforts such as the book I'm writing. I will, as always, be willing to provide solicited advice by email as I've always done for industry peers.

It's the day after Christmas, aka figure out which year to pay taxes due in January day.