Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Only about 9 hours left to get in on the fundraiser for the food bank. Orders placed before January 4 (Central time zone) will have 20% donated. Orders placed today will be roasted and mailed tomorrow.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Punk says it's time for belly rubs.

Removed Holiday Blend from the web site. I'm not making any more of the 2020 edition of that blend.

There's still time to get in on the 20% of sales going to the food bank (that's going on through tomorrow) if you need some coffee and want that purchase to support a worthy cause.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

I'm not going to do it, but some days I really feel like putting an extra word charge on the menu. You read the menu, order a chai, you pay the price for a chai, but the borderline nonsensical "chai tea latté" costs extra. Maybe also a surcharge for translation from starbonics.

Last of the limited edition Peruvian coffee sold today. I might have a different LE coffee around Valentine's Day.

tl;dr, co-op has a loading screen that murders my character before the battle even starts. Solo doesn't do that.

Solo, I can clear it in about a minute and a half with a party of Anemo traveller, Klee, Fischl, and Qiqi (and sometimes be at full health at the end of that). Nobody needs to yell at Klee.

How bad was it? Here's how my co-op attempt went:

1. Set Klee as my character for co-op.
2. Make sure I'm at full health and warm.
3. Go to the challenge marker, get matched to co-op.
4. Get white loading screen. (ugh)
5. When the game comes back, the challenge is already in progress, Klee has 0HP, there's a revive prompt.
6. Revived Klee is on the other side of a force field unable to help and Diluc is yelling at her to click the light.
7. There was no light.
8. Challenge failed.

Finished cleaning out the event shop in the current Genshin Impact event. I had to do the challenges solo because co-op was unplayably awful.

The shop is closed today, but the web site is open and our New Year's Day (except this year extending to the 3rd) fundraiser for Racine County Food Bank has started. Until end of day January 3, 20% of all sales will be donated (includes shipping, doesn't include sales tax but whole bean coffee isn't taxable in Wisconsin). Web orders placed today will get roasted tomorrow.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Last night's tech support excursion was a success. My mother is now paying $100 less per month (dropping television and a phone line she wasn't using) and getting Internet (that she does use) that's 8x as fast.

Mom's cat was really into my laptop bag.

Time to be tech support for my mother. I suspect she needs to offer more clarity because she's trying to cancel cable television (which she doesn't watch) but I suspect she would like to keep the Internet (which she uses heavily) and it's not clear to me that she made that distinction clear to the cable company that provides both of those services.

The cat has been staying warm today.

Got a good amount of book editing done today. That's taking way too long, but I'll have a few days off soon during which I'll try to be more productive on that.

I keep a snack tray next to the cat seat. It's the perfect height for the cat to use to scritch her own chin.

The cat forgot why she was sitting on a box.