Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Looks like I get another trip to the post office tomorrow.

Can gas prices crash again? My tank is almost empty again.

You can't charge a convenience fee without a CON.

Writing lots of personal checks this month. License plate renewal (went up), water bill (had yet another fee tacked onto it), property tax. Anybody who wants to charge a "convenience fee" for taking payment in a way that ought to be cheaper and easier for them gets stuck with paper checks in the mail.

Got word that another employee is coming back to work soon. That just leaves one part timer whose parents aren't letting her out of the house.

Shippo fluff stats email is weird again. It says my boxes travelled 23 miles in April... to reach 9 states. That's so far off that it doesn't even make sense as a per shipment mean. It could /maybe/ be a median distance, but I think they're just making numbers up instead of bothering to do the sums.

Another event I normally teach at got cancelled.

Started playing Gris last night (it's on sale). I don't expect it'll have a lot of replay value for me, but I'm enjoying it so far. I've gotten far enough in that it's building dramatic tension but doing it without presenting the player with risk of punishment (no death traps, no game overs, failed attempts at solving the puzzles don't require tons of backtracking).

Just ordered a bunch of coffee. Things that aren't on the offering list now but will be going up over the next couple weeks as the coffees arrive and I figure out how I'm roasting them include coffees from Costa Rica, Yemen, and Java, those last 2 will also get a Mocha Java Blend.

What's the cat getting into?

Office supply delivery came with a coupon for $100 off a case of wine, which seems like an odd thing to include with index cards and shipping labels, but whatever.

My economic impact check arrived.

Still, I think I definitely picked the right people to look this over as there's been surprisingly little overlap in what different reviewers are flagging.

Over half of the people who have pre-publication access to my book have now sent their feedback. If I don't get the rest before mid-month I'm going to proceed without it as I'd like to have this done and out for sale.

The email asking if they can schedule a repeat class arrived about half an hour after another email advertising the now sold out class.

One of my employees dropped off a couple packs of bagels after hearing about my failure to acquire bagels on my most recent grocery run. That was entirely unexpected (and I don't have cream cheese for them), but nice of them to do. One pack is a flavor I haven't tried yet and the other is something that I already know I like.

My online workshop sold out so I've been asked if I can teach it again near the end of June. I've agreed to do that and expect this one to also sell out quickly.

Pretty sure this cemented an appreciation for well documented plain text protocols. The relative simplicity of POP3 meant I could learn how it worked and just fix things for myself instead of waiting for my ISP to realize they had a problem.