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USB extension cable acquired and installed. I now have three screens attached to my main coffee roaster. One is a laptop screen that shows my data logging, one is really for the other roaster but when that's not in use I can have it show a production dashboard, and the new one shows what the view through the sightglass would be if that weren't now covered up along with a reading on how dark the coffee is roasted (tracked live as I'm roasting it).

Need a USB extension cable to make the new instrument connected to the roaster reach the third screen. The cable is almost but not quite long enough to set that up in a way that still lets me conveniently reach all the roaster controls.

Prototype thing at the roaster is installed and working. I still need to write some code to interface with that, but that will be easy.

If your company's tech support annoys me too much, I'll write erotica about your products. And not the good sort of erotica.

You have been warned.

Mowed the front yard. Would have mowed the back but there was a black cat enjoying the space and I didn't want to disturb it.

Did takeout for dinner. I seem to have gotten bonus egg rolls that I didn't order, but the rest of the food is right.

More work is happening on the machine tomorrow maybe. If all goes well I might end up with three screens attached to the coffee roaster (up from the current two screens), which is pretty ridiculous to think about given that it's not as if I have a control room for operating a full roasting plant.

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Finished today's coffee roasting. The machine still works after yesterday's dis/re-assembly.

The cat has stopped greeting me at the door after work. Now she just stays on the couch and gives me a meow.

It is a good day to disassemble a coffee roaster and clean the less accessible parts.

@dankwraith the beatles were created out of eighteen or nineteen different popular 1960s pop artists as an corporate umbrella brand to simplify the intellectual property transfer during a series of record company mergers that occurred from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. it saved a ton of tax for them, and boomers fucking believed it too, they bought in, to the extent they’ll even defend the existence of the band, share their memories of having a favourite Beatle. it’s fucked up

The cat is complaining because I'm making onion rings instead of petting the cat.

With the realization that I probably want to add another chapter to the book and the page count increases from the other edits, I'm thinking more seriously about doing a print version, but that would require a complete redesign of the interior (not actually that big a deal) and introduce other complications for a project I was hoping to be done with by now. Ugh.

Getting better at the rhythm game part of Deemo Reborn. I might be able to get the platinum trophy for this after all, but not tonight.

Saw one of the new bat quarters in the till today. It's a good design.

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