Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

New grinder loaded with regular and moved to the bar, old grinder is now on decaf duty, and the old decaf grinder will be my blend development grinder.

By remarkable coincidence, this arrived with the grind and timer settings for both singles and doubles already perfectly adjusted for the coffee I intend to use in this. Staff says they like that it's black.

New grinder has arrived.

New grinder shipped faster than expected. FedEx thinks they might deliver it tomorrow.

Post office was very busy today for some reason.

Web site wouldn't let me generate labels for online orders today. It was just a case of the credit card on file was expired so once that was updated everything started working again. (I did, however, need to go into the audit log to find exactly what error was being produced to know that this was the fix)

Decided to try out some new coffee brewing equipment today (not actually new, but I've gotten more than I need largely in the form of sponsor gifts from teaching gigs that I hadn't gotten around to trying out yet). The water kettle is a nice upgrade that I'll probably switch to. Couldn't use the tiny Chemex that I didn't realize I had because I don't have any filter paper small enough for it.

Fixed the grinder that broke last night. Not going to try to cancel the new grinder I ordered last night because that will still be a nice upgrade for the bar and I'll get a slight upgrade for what I use to develop new espresso blends (which is far less demanding of grinder capabilities than anything involved in serving customers).

New hire got more training on grind adjustment than planned because the grinder stopped working (the switch now goes between off and more off instead of on) and I needed to swap in a spare (it probably wasn't his fault). I've ordered a new grinder and will see if I can fix the broken one soon, but this is why I keep old still working hardware around after upgrades.

Running down the list of things that aren't quite working in the way I want them to and fixing them.

As for the decaf Ethiopian, that one needs to stay on the lighter side. It's not objectionable going into medium or dark roasts, but it's less interesting there.

The new Mexican coffee is also nice across a very wide range of roasts. Sweet, well balanced. One of those where if you've got a preferred roast level you can probably just take your best guess and get something you'll enjoy.

As the coffee cools I think it holds up best right around 2nd crack, either a little lighter, at, or just a little darker depending on what you're looking to get out of the coffee.

Time to taste coffees that arrived yesterday. First up is a new coffee from Sumatra. It's not the mark that I normally get, but one of my other suppliers got a bunch of potentially nice ones in and I picked one since I don't want to be out of it. On the first sip I didn't care for the lightest roast on the table but it's pretty good across the range from a little before 2nd crack out through almost a French Roast, so rather forgiving and easy to recommend to the home roasting set.

Got the email letting me know that my coffee was out for delivery about 2 hours after it was delivered.

Busy day at the shop so very little coding, but what there has been has been mathy stuff trying to improve measurement stability with dodgy hardware that I told the vendor was not actually fit for purpose.

Told an insurance company that their automated email was not helpful and explained in the survey how to fix that. I don't expect they will, but there's a clear, concise, and easy to implement idea if a human ever reads that.

Minor QOL feature work worked on the first try.

Fixed several bugs.

@stux Just need to find a dictionary that doesn't include the word to falsify this.