Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I've just been informed that there's a shortage of valentines chocolates in the market this year. I'm not in a chocolate giving relationship, but if any of you are, you may want to avoid waiting until the last moment this year.

Ganyu: supporting the party by finishing events before Paimon even starts explaining what to do. #GenshinImpact #Cocogoat

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/334c1ba0-826b-43c2-9160-5c120cf83133

In China it's very common for people in business to give themselves a western name to make it easier to deal with foreigners who don't know how to say Chinese names. That's often a very common name, but today I got spam from someone who chose to go with Sauron, which might be close to their given name but probably isn't the spelling they should go with.

I don't know much about making video games, but what I do know is that floors are surprisingly difficult to get right.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/b9c6f682-0a22-49da-a184-9efd5542a65f

Administrator Qiqi is ready for work.

Ulman has the saddest character description.

If she fits, she sits.

Dog: Am I a good dog? Will you pet me? Can I have a treat?
Girl: You're a good dog, but the game developers won't let me pet you or give you a treat.

Another dev survey, another opportunity to request cat/dog petting as a feature.

Late night at work. This time for maintenance that's impractical to do while the shop is open.

Christmas Sloth mugs are all sold out now.

One of my customers thinks she might have a cat that looks like mine that similarly broke into her house (she's only seen the tail). I guess that's what grey cats do now. They see a place they want to move into and just let themselves in and are like, "I live here now."

Teller at the credit union drive through looked at my written instructions, verbally confirmed correctly what I wanted, proceeded to deposit to the wrong account. (also one of my accounts so I can just do a transfer through their web site, but I shouldn't have to)

Accountant is coming out tomorrow so of course I got the tax planner in an email today. Related: apparently password protected PDFs are a thing and Okular handles them just fine.

The shop is a little bit understaffed today so I'm theoretically bar help, but business is also on the slow side so I'm spending most of the time doing book editing.