Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Signed up for a food manager license class/test since my old license is expired. I have employees who have the same license so it's not a problem that mine isn't current, but I'd rather not have to rush on that in the unlikely event that everybody just quit on me or something.

Batch #2 matched up perfectly with the first batch. That empties out my first 10Kg box of green coffee (the empty box is now part of the product display). I have one full box left which I'll similarly split into a couple production batches in part because I'm not expecting the coffee to continue selling at the pace the first batch went and in part because my production roaster can't do the profile I chose for this with a large batch size.

All but 1 pound of the first batch of my competition coffee sold by the time I got to the shop today. Will need to roast another batch today. https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/auramatina.html

Sad table is sad.

New coffee is up for sale on the web site. People are already buying it in the shop, too. https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/auramatina.html

Limited edition coffee is now out for sale in the shop. I've reserved a few small bags to send as gifts. Next task is getting it up on the web site where it hopefully doesn't sell too quickly (I'll need to take it down before I sell more than I have).

Half pound labels done. Those look very similar and I was able to keep the top block of text exactly the same. I was hoping for that as I rather like how the top of the ff ligature snugs in with the curve at the bottom of the E above it.

All of my coffee labels are made in XeLaTeX, mainly because I despise dragging boxes around on screen to get things to go where I want.

I still need to do the half pound design (less width to work with on those bags), but here's the label design for the pound bag size.

Today's UCE has a factory (I'm guessing in China) that wants to sell me coffee related pins. This was my favorite design of the set. More relevant to my interests than the vast majority of my spam.

The first drip pot of my competition coffee is now brewing. It smelled great when grinding, at least as best I could tell through the mask. I'll be tasting it in private properly distanced from others soon. If it's good, getting that out for sale is my top priority for today.

The cashiers at the office store are sad because the manager is making them work behind a sign with a big glaring typo in the middle and not letting that get fixed.

Match to the roasting plan was perfect with the production test batch of what was originally going to be my competition coffee. Based on the mass loss it looks like I'm going to end up with about 30 pounds roasted available to sell and then it's gone. I'll be tasting this tomorrow to make sure it's good brewed as someone might do that as I've only had this on the cupping table so far.

*giving all of my alchemists cat ears*

Giving up on the code I was trying to integrate for today. The problem will probably end up being a stupid typo somewhere that would be caught at compile time IF I HAD A COMPILER.

Tried to take a picture of the cat smashing her face against the keyboard to hear it click, but she stopped before I could.