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.

Got a decent chunk of free (with purchase) food today.

Cat finally made an appearance. I have no idea where she's been hiding all evening.

Reworking more blends today. It's a bit of a challenge because I can't use a lot of my go to coffees since my sister refuses to acknowledge the possibility of planning. Still, what I'm looking at for a new Breakfast Blend is super nice as it cools. A bit heavier than what it's been lately, but with a very subtle fruitiness in the aftertaste that's a nice surprise as you drink it.

Stripe thinks I could "benefit from business insights powered by SQL." I agree, which is why we already have two databases: one on site with all our production stuff, one on the web site with online sales related stuff. Stripe handles such a tiny proportion of the overall business that it's not worth looking at whatever it is they're trying to sell me on.

What's everybody doing for Cirno Day?

(her old system was starting to do things like not accept browser versions new enough for her bank, stopped playing her DVDs, and there was a lot of basic functionality that was too hidden for her to figure out)

Her ancient laptop now has a brand new installation of KDE Neon and it does the stuff she wants her computer to do.

Did some computer help for my sister. Got most of a pizza and a box of fudge.

The cat shoved her head into an empty egg roll bag.

Trying to help someone at another company troubleshoot their database without asking them to give me access to their database (I wrote the query their report is failing on so I'd like to get to the bottom of that and see if I can change things so it can't fail in the way it currently does).

The furniture/appliance moving I agreed to help with went better than anticipated.

I did show one of them how to get into the yard so they could do that and reassured them that I'd far rather they just retrieved their balls on their own than pester me about it, though I can understand not wanting to trespass on stranger neighbor's property, especially if you're a person of color in America not wanting to get shot (I have no intention of owning a gun and wouldn't shoot a kid getting his ball back even if I did, but I know that's not universally true).

It looks like one of the neighbor kids got his ball out of my back yard while I was at work. I noticed it this morning and since there are now people playing who could confirm it was theirs before I tossed it over I was going to do that, but I don't have to because the ball isn't there anymore.

Found and fixed another bug.

Updated the shop's web site to put the new Guatemalan coffee up for sale there and the couple days the shop will be closed for Labor Day.

Ran into one of my customers at the grocery store. We were both disappointed by the inadequate stocking. She was on her third store. I can't be bothered to hit more than one per day so I'm just doing without.

While looking for something else this morning I found a big pile of Nintendo DS games I didn't even realize I was missing.

It's still hot out so it's another round of night roasting. Last night the cat yelled at me for getting home so late, having forgotten that I also left the house much later in the day.

Due to the heat I'm switching to night roasting to give the AC a chance to keep up. That's also a good time to recharge the water softeners and change the filters.

Hard to believe it's been September for over three decades now.