Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

#introduction

I'm part owner and roaster at a little coffee company in Wisconsin. Author of Typica, a popular free program used to capture and work with coffee roasting production records that's used at roasting companies all over the world. Volunteer on the Roasters Guild education committee. Available for paid coffee consulting, training, open source software development. Living with a cat who broke into my house and decided to stay. Likes: cute, travel, food. Dislikes: blinking lights.

Cat goes purr

In a sign that I'm probably eating too much pizza, they didn't ask me for my name and number when I placed today's order.

More computer hardware (a small NAS and drives) has entered the house and the cat approves. She especially likes the accessories box that the power and network cables came in.

Still, nice to see a number for what someone might in theory want to pay for the place.

Got one of those "I want to buy your house" things in the mail. This one stands out for actually having a number on it (a little over twice what I paid for it which I assume they'd want to chip down after looking it over) but I'm not particularly interested in looking for a place to move to or dealing with the hassle of moving or helping to build up the stock of investment housing.

Spent entirely too long looking around the house for a magnifying glass before remembering that I can just use the camera on my phone to enlarge some tiny text I needed to read.

(not that I wouldn't have minded a couple more minutes of green hills zone remix)

Sometimes you have to wonder what the process is that goes into picking the little bits of music between segments on the radio. Nothing against Sonic the Hedgehog music, but what does this have to do with anything they were just talking about?

How many episodes would you have left if you removed all the rerun segments from Pink Panther?

Today's coding is exploratory in nature. Just making sure I understand what I'm trying to do, checking out some different approaches that might work before I write it for real.

Tasting production test batches of new coffees today. Before any new lot goes out for sale I sit down with a cup and make sure it's delicious. Sometimes what's very good on the cupping table doesn't translate very well to how any normal person would drink coffee so it's good to have that final check of trying the coffee prepared in the manner most customers are likely to experience it.

Power company still thinks my power is out, but it still doesn't seem to be.

Needed to dual-laptop briefly today and noticed (by accidentally messing it up) that despite the older one having a much larger power brick, the barrel connectors are the same and using the "wrong" ones works just fine.

Power company just texted that my power is out. It does not seem to be out yet.

The rain is very loud.

There's a cat on my lap.

Coming with that is more Colombian coffee. Price on that was set before coffee prices went crazy so I should be able to charge on the lower end for that. Unfortunately, I don't have much where I've similarly locked in good prices contractually so most upcoming orders are likely to remain somewhat scary.

The Costa Rican coffee that I had on contract isn't in the country yet but there's other lots of the same mark and this has been very consistent year over year so I'm not worried about trading a couple bags with a different customer whose coffee has arrived. Depending on sales I might run out before the new coffee is ready, but it'll be close. At least the usual online customers have all gotten their orders in recently.

More coffee is on the way.

The cat would like to know where the least convenient place for a cat to be sitting is. For science or something, I guess.