Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Can any #GenshinImpact players confirm that weapon prototype drop rates have been fixed or was I just crazy lucky to get one from both Tartaglia and Dvalin this week?

Multiple Typica related emails to reply to today. Work on that program has been slowed considerably because there are both no outside code contributions and donations in support of ongoing development only came to about $170 for all of 2020 so I spent my time on work that lets me not die of exposure or starvation. (And though there are many ways I'd like to improve it, my immediate needs for the program are all met.)

It looks like lots of puzzles have recently been returned to the community puzzle exchange. That was getting pretty picked over, especially for the popular 300-500 piece sizes. The selection is still proportionally overweighted on the less popular 1000-2000 piece sizes, but there are enough puzzles in total that people should be able to find something they're comfortable with doing.

Me: *intends to go into work a little earlier than usual*
Cat: *jumps up on me and curls up for a nap*
Cat: *purring intensifies*

Playing a scenario in Project Highrise (basically SimTower). I've completed all the objectives, provide all the amenities, and ended up with more money than I can possibly spend so I've lowered everybody's rent to 0 while waiting for buzz to build and yet still have a bunch of empty apartments.

Washed some dishes, heated up some leftovers, now it's time to hang out with the cat.

Some water kettles that were backordered until tomorrow got delivered today. The same order had some less expensive kettles also backordered until tomorrow which have not yet arrived.

I've been regifted about a third of a box of peanut brittle. It's not bad.

Did some roaster maintenance today. Ended up using a surprisingly large number of tools to pull parts out and put them back in better.

The latest shipment of Earl Grey tea is fluffier so to keep the bag looking attractive the amount in the larger size bag will be reduced. The price will also be reduced so that it's the same price per pound as it was. Web site is updated, in store purchases will have the quantity/price swapped once we sell out of the previous shipment.

I had to tell people to go away and stop talking to me because I kept getting the math on the new price obviously wrong.

So last night's dream had several groups of characters who mostly weren't interested in each other arranged throughout an old Chinese mansion. There were a couple people going around with guns trying to loot the place but nobody really cared about them aside from sometimes begrudgingly unlocking a door for them. Then there was a gap and suddenly I was chatting with some of the non-looters in the Denver airport and I didn't have my luggage. Then I woke up.

In the pros column on the decision, surely my book would be out by then and doing more stuff like this might help with sales.

At this point I'd be looking at sourcing another coffee that works well for the class, designing a new set of roasting plans with that coffee in mind, updating the lecture with the new bleeding edge stuff I've got access to that didn't exist last time I taught the class (you wouldn't expect it, but I routinely operate about 2 years in the future), and then closer to the class time doing all of the roasting, packing, shipping involved in that.

I've been asked if I want to do another online roasting class in March/April. I'm a little on the fence here as I do enjoy doing that, but it's a huge amount of prep work.

We're advertising the results of the fundraiser as $685.86, but we've rounded that up to $800 plus another $25 check that someone left in the donation box. There are people who will see the not round number and decide to push the number up with a post-event donation.

Last night's dream had an unusually large cast of characters. Also, a huge hole in the plot.

The cat is vibrating on my foot.

Based on sales so far, it looks like this year's fundraiser won't bring in as much money as previous years one day version of the event (an unrealistically huge number of last minute online orders could change that), but it's still several hundred dollars. The food collection barrel, however, is a lot fuller than it often is.