Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The shooting star charm gives Lucky the power to fly while the red balloon gives Lucky the power to float (through the sky, not in water) and I feel like General Mills just got lazy with the lore design there. And why does he need either of those when the rainbow charm gives Lucky the power of teleportation, which can easily be abused for a float/fly similar effect as well.

lots of smoke produced while cooking tonight's dinner, but it tastes good.

For people in the US who might be running out of coffee soon, web site sales are included in the fundraiser, so if you get your order placed between January 1 and January 3 (inclusive, Central time zone), 20% of the total (including shipping) will be donated to Racine County Food Bank.

Updated the shop's web site. Christmas hours have been removed, the new decaf Sumatra has been added (but it's below the New Years hours and start of the year charity fundraiser info because I expect more guests of the site will be interested in that information)

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

time for a coffee

me: *has cat allergies*
cat: Oh no, you're not feeling well. Let me give you extra hugs.

Allergy pills obtained in preparation for not leaving the house and having extra contact with the cat tomorrow.

Seeing lots of good dogs out and about today.

And it's gone (from the website).

Roasting the last of my limited edition Peruvian coffee. Will remove it from the web site later today, so now is the last chance to buy some of that before it's gone forever.

https://wilsonscoffee.com

I've just realized that Fuka from Disgaea 4 is basically Jesus. (she dies, conquers hell, returns to Earth, ascends to heaven) Does that make Disgaea 4 appropriate Christmas entertainment?

People keep buying all the chai so I'm cooking up another batch of chai.

I tend to get really great service from shops, sometimes even discounts that aren't generally available. Why? Because I use a few simple tricks for being a great customer.

1. If there's a menu, look at it and use words that exist on that menu.
2. If I've been there before, present all the information needed to produce the correct outcome in the order they want that information at a pace that they can process it.
3. Please, thank you, don't invite them to come to my place and get naked.

I shouldn't need to say this, but apparently I need to say this: Yelling at your barista will not make the postal service deliver first class mail any faster. When you put a stamp on an envelope and drop it in a mailbox, you don't get a tracking number that can be used to get a delivery estimate and yelling at your barista will not change that fact. If you are unsatisfied with the quality of mail service, do not direct your outrage at your barista. Take it up with your congress peeps.

All of today's outgoing packages contain Holiday Blend coffee. It's not a promotional special, that's just what customers ordered.

Opened the bag of tree/snowman/spacekook candies. The cat is interested in how that smells.

Wearing a baseball shirt today. It's my favorite team.

Ordered more carry out cups and lids. The next shipment of lids will be pink because they were sold out of black lids and white lids and the remaining non-pink options were more expensive. This might upset one firefighter who several years ago accidentally ordered a pink beverage and said it was delicious, but that he could never order it again because I guess fire fighters aren't allowed to like things that are pink.