Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My apprentice liked things closer to cup 24, but this needs to be an expensive coffee and out that dark it's not sufficiently different from another coffee in the product line that costs quite a bit less. It's important to keep the whole product line in mind to avoid having lots of tasty coffees where the primary difference is just the label on the bag.

I liked the 18th cup (ordered from lightest to darkest) best, but I'll want to adjust the timing to see if I can boost the intensity.

The first step in deciding how to roast a coffee is tasting to establish what the coffee is capable of. The biggest differences will just be in how dark it's roasted.

Cat is upset that I'm not sharing my pizza.

Have I mentioned yet that I hate writing graphics code? Because, yeah, I hate writing graphics code.

Let the person who does a lot of the production roasting now use the lab roaster again to get some practice on how we do product development here. She needs to get about 3x as fast at pulling samples but we all have to start somewhere.

@cardassianvole I remember a time when this was tried but the groundhog died before it could be made to look. There were school kids on a field trip and someone thought it was a good idea to change the ceremony into a funeral that the kids could watch instead.

This was not a good idea.

This failure of leadership means that education, training, and professional development resources are no longer considered core to the association's mission. What activities are now considered part of the mission? The hell if I know.

Apparently another meeting happened where the issues I raised while resigning from a committee were discussed (heatedly I'm told). I had previously shared my thoughts on an acceptable way forward. Others also had ideas that I would have considered acceptable first steps. Association leadership decided to go a different route that completely fails to address the fundamental problems. If that turns out to be true then I'm still out and next year I'll let my memberships lapse.

Good news: a small amount of pipe thawed to get water flowing in the house.
Bad news: it flowed out of the side of the pipe and across the basement.

This was caught right away. Valve is closed, but the plumber can't fix anything until the water department shuts things off at the main on Monday. That means I'll be living on microwave food and the cat will keep getting bottled water over the weekend.

Cat is enjoying her bottled water while I wait for my pipes to thaw.

I think the cat was just on top of a heat vent. Her right side is warmer than her left side.

@jflanders It shouldn't. Can you turn on diagnostic logging and see if it's generating an error?

warming with the cat. it's like chilling, but with heat.

Some maintenance work is going on at the shop while it's closed. I'll grab some bottled water for the cat.

At the shop so a wholesale customer can pick up their coffee, but we're not really open. It took a little coaxing to get the car engine to start. Hopefully it'll start for the trip back home.

The cat has gotten bored of me and is now on the bed. The bedroom is the warmest room in the house (smaller windows, located directly above the furnace, lots of stuff that's good at holding in the heat).

Might also go in to use the bathroom. I'm out of toilet flushes at home until my pipes thaw.

It's warmed up to -15 (feels like -19). It looks like snow this evening and then warming above 0 tomorrow morning. I might need to leave the house to let a wholesale customer pick up their coffee, but they've got my mobile number and will let me know. Freight company with my next coffee shipment also isn't delivering today due to cold, rescheduled for tomorrow.

Pipes at home are still frozen but the espresso machine has water.