Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got a box of pants delivered. Hope they fit. I tried to buy those locally some place where I could try them on first, but the selection was extremely picked over and my options were either hideous or doesn't fit. Fortunately I pretty much stopped changing shape decades ago and I'm a guy so odds are good on fit.

The cat is talkative tonight. She also really likes the plastic wrap that used to be around a stack of veggie crackers.

Mailing list for my book has nearly doubled in size since the last update went out. I should really get that finished so people can buy it.

Spent some more time working on the Typica rewrite. Enough of the UI elements that are getting a redesign are now easier to read at smaller sizes (I've needed to tweak some design ideas because it's very important to me that I can rapidly scan the state of the system) which in turn opens up space that can be used for new features.

New Ethiopian coffee is expected to arrive this week. After that I'm expecting a delivery of coffee from Guatemala. The Guatemalan coffee isn't a new thing, just more to make sure I don't run out. Coffee from Sulawesi is on the shelf but not yet up on the web site.

Hot breakfast prepared. Still no Internet.

Electricity is back on. Good timing as the cat was starting to decide the house was too cold and I was thinking a hot breakfast might be nice.

It's morning. Still no power, cause of outage still not determined.

Still no power.

The nearest mark with a cause identified says "tree" and also says the crew sent to fix it can't.

According to the earlier text, I should have wired Internet again, but given the lack of electricity I wouldn't know if that's available again.

It looks like the cat is completely uninterested in investigating the candles. This is good.

Time for candles. My matches aren't lighting, but the burner on my siphon pot works.

Checked the power company web site. Latest update on the power outage is that they don't know why the power is out and nobody is looking into it.

I'm trying to reassure the cat that everything is fine. She's either not convinced or just pretending to get extra cuddles.

No notice from the power company itself, of course.

Just got a text letting me know my wired Internet is having an outage, so I'm guessing the current power outage is affecting that as well. They're guessing it'll be a couple hours to come back.

Looks like electricity for at least this block is having issues. It's having a hard time deciding if it's on or off, but seems to mostly be off.

So the roasting advice here will be go pretty light or go decently far past 2nd crack but skip the middle unless you want a coffee that's having an identity crisis.