Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tiny birds in the backyard seem to be having more success going after grasshoppers than the visiting cat had going after the birds.

Unless there's some kind of unanticipated work or personal emergency, I now have four days in a row set aside for working on Typica. I wouldn't count on it, but there's little enough left on the to do list that it's not impossible that I get a preview release out by Labor Day.

Did a grocery top up in anticipation of possibly not leaving the house for the next 4 days and I'm not sure if I've ever seen so many guys buying grocery store flowers at the same time.

Text messages asking if I'm interested in selling my home are immediately reported as spam and blocked. I'd need a completely ridiculous offer (maybe 10x fair value) to compensate for hassle of moving.

Did some server admin. Was happy to see that I could follow the trail of configs to find where I needed to add a new record and the change worked on the first try.

I might be out of town when that gets delivered so I should leave staff with some instructions if they want to get started on figuring out how we'll roast that before I'm back. Otherwise a few days delay on that won't be problematic.

Bought more coffee. One that I was hoping to get had already sold out.

It's wine o'clock.

Some of that increase is that wholesale is up a lot, but it would still be up significantly even if I removed that.

Now that I've finished the coffee roasting for August (assuming there aren't any last minute emergency orders from people desperate for coffee for their business) I can see that more coffee got roasted this month than any other month so far this year. Normally this is part of our summer slow down which just hasn't been happening the past couple years. That's probably not a good sign (less money available for vacationing?). YTD production is up over 10% despite green availability issues.

It looks like my staff has scheduled me a 4 day weekend for Labor Day so that looks like a good candidate for sorting out a few final pieces of work, doing the various platform builds, testing that things work enough, and putting up some links to those.

I don't mind persistent low volume scraping. I do mind getting bandwidth alerts because some bot doesn't just clone the repos to get the data.