Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Went back to playing Gundemoniums and somehow I got better at it?

There's lots of exploding happening outside.

Bottles arrived today, but no lids. Called back the place I get my bottles from and they're going to send lids. Fortunately, the three bottle sizes I buy all use the same lids so this isn't going to cause any production delays.

I've done enough test batches on the new sample roaster at this point that it's become clear that I want to adapt a program that I've been working on to do some of the work involved in designing roasting plans outside of their app and then get the data I need to efficiently copy in what I want.

I wasn't really looking for new features to add to that program, but I guess another use case that it covers at launch might be good for getting people to try it out.

Do you think anybody involved with that let me google that for you website gets phone calls from people asking them to google something for them?

Saved 81 cents on today's shopping trip because the person ahead of me had 81 cents left over on a gift card and decided he'd rather just hand that off to me instead of needing to keep track of it for a future visit.

At my shop if someone has less than a dollar left on a gift certificate I'll usually just ask them if they want the left over back as change rather than need to deal with it again on their next visit.

This is not my cat.

It's too hot and the cat wants to cuddle.

Amazon does this thing where they split the video royalty payments up into multiple regions and they each pay out separately. The terms when I was signing up for that suggested that there's a payment threshold, but they've never stuck to that so some months I get up to four separate deposits for as little as 1 cent. I'm kind of amazed they don't at least merge those into a single payment.

34 cents in royalty payments last month for some videos I have up on Amazon (free with Prime). That's a pretty good month for me. The same videos and more are also available on YouTube and PeerTube.

Next on the schedule for the day is a research and education committee conference call, getting an emergency wholesale order roasted, packed, and shipped, talking with another local company that's interested in setting up a wholesale account, and tasting the test batches that I roasted yesterday. I'm thinking I might do French Press for those.