Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@Satsuma What we do here is simmer the spice mix first, then take it off the heat and add sugar and tea. The tea is in the same concentration and steep time as you'd use to make a pot.

@Satsuma Yes, and all because the regional distributor for the brand we liked tried to switch to something awful they could put their own name on and the manufacturer didn't want to sell to us in manageable quantities before the distributor came to their senses. It's all for the best anyway. When we started cooking it ourselves, chai sales doubled. When we started bottling it, sales doubled again.

@Satsuma I buy the Assam tea we use in that in 44 pound bags. There's also lots of sugar (if you leave the sugar out or don't put enough in, you can't taste the spices), though it's less sweet than some of the better known major brands.

The same flavors are also available in dog.

Also in today's deliveries, Yoga Cats. The directions say to use water, but it's better with warm milk.

Today's deliveries included 25 pounds of cinnamon pieces. I use a lot of cinnamon in my chai concentrate.

Should I wear a mask for the author bio pic on the Roasted Coffee Product Development ebook marketing page?

Maybe I'll wear a mask for the author bio photo on the web site. I can always change that later.

Mostly finished the design update over the holiday weekend. I want a better author bio photo (for the design I just grabbed something convenient), some tweaks to the preview pages section, and I want to make sure it's not awful on phone browsers or if someone is idiotic enough to run their web browser full screen on something ridiculously wide.

Unloaded a truck of coffee. Now it's time for donuts.

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With the release of my book coming up soon, I decided that it was about time to rework the site and make that more attractive. Didn't finish that work and haven't uploaded the changes, but the work so far makes me feel like I'd be more likely to buy the book had I not written it. When I first put that up I intentionally went with something low effort because I wanted to spend the time writing the book instead of marketing it.

Next coffee shipment is scheduled for Tuesday morning. I'll need to double check, but the coffee from Papua New Guinea might be the same as what we had most recently (the ICO# matches something we've had and if it matches the most recent thing it's probably the same coffee) which would let me get that out on the shelf faster. The new coffee from Brazil (a Sul de Minas) will take a couple days to go through the whole product development process.

Made too much dinner.

Fresh water filters arrived today. Those have now been installed. Still waiting on a label to return the wrong filters that were originally sent.

New power supply arrived. It was a good idea, but sadly, did not resolve the issue it was intended to fix. My hacky work around still works fine, so I'll just keep going with that.

I think my new strategy for the post office is to go past the usable entrance, park on the street, and take a longer walk to and from the building. The one legal car exit has signs directing everything one way toward more road construction and ignoring the big do not enter on the other entrance like most people seem to do is unreliable as traffic can get backed up there with surprising rapidity. Not using the post office's parking lot preserves the best options for leaving.