Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tried to fill out another grant application but the site where that's supposed to be is broken (probably because everybody is hammering the site trying to find the grant application) and the application does not appear to even be available yet.

There was a cup on the dark end that was my favorite of the set on the first sip, but that just faded too quickly as the coffee cooled and here again, there are things that I can do in the roast to try to help with that, but it would cause other changes to the flavor that I don't think would work well with this coffee.

Tasted the new coffee from Tanzania today. This isn't going to go out for sale immediately as I need to sell out of my Kenyan coffee to make room on the shelf. It seems to hold up best in a medium roast, but I'll want to tweak the roasting plan a bit to see if I can boost the intensity on that. There are attributes that I don't like on the lighter roasts which I don't think I can fully remove at that level with creative roasting (sometimes I can, but it seems unlikely with this one).

After some tasting and experimentation, I think the idea that I've been working on for this year's Holiday Blend is a dead end. I still have some other ideas that I can pursue, but first I need to work on developing roasting plans for some of the coffees that arrived on the most recent shipment.

My request to pet the video game animals has been acknowledged and added to the suggestions basket.

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi Code them like resistors?

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi They have more flavors than colors. The trick is to buy direct and pick out the individual flavors you like instead of getting the awful pre-defined assortments. But let's be realistic, that's too much work for jelly beans.

They have a 10 word minimum so instead of something like "please let me pet the cats and dogs" they got the relevant Atelier Shallie quest description with a parenthetical explanation that "please let me pet the cats and dogs" didn't hit the minimum word count.

Opened a ticket on Genshin Impact requesting the ability to pet the cats and dogs.

Unloaded another couple thousand pounds of coffee today. 2 trucks delivered that this morning.

Got some time on the lab roaster today to try out an idea for what might be this year's Holiday Blend coffee. Will do some tasting tomorrow.

Officially sold out of the competition coffee. I still have some bagging leftovers available for brewing.

This would have been better if the tasks matched the quest description. #AtelierShallie

Thinking I might want to just order a pizza tonight instead of cooking.

In other coffee news, I'm down to my last half pound of the competition coffee for whoever comes in and grabs that first. I'll probably bring in a different limited edition offering in early November. I'm also working on figuring out what this year's Holiday Blend is going to be and hope to have that out for sale soon.

Ordered more coffee. Some is just direct replacements of coffees already in the product line, but there are some changes coming. We're going to let ourselves run out of decaf Mexican coffee, replacing that with a nice decaf Brazilian coffee. The next lot of coffee from Java won't be a peaberry. Kenya AB will be replaced in the line with a Tanzanian peaberry.

That's exactly how I ended up living with a cat.