Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My supplier would have taken the extra coffee back if this didn't work out, but it's easier for everybody if I don't have to do that.

Production test batch using the new coffee from Nicaragua as a French Roast turned out good. I wasn't planning on roasting the coffee like that, but a warehouse mis-pick means I have twice as much of that coffee as I ordered so being able to use it for something that I sell a lot of will help me use the excess in a reasonable amount of time.

Finally got through to someone and my coffee supplier will send the coffee that I didn't get. I'll do some tasting and figure out of I can use the extra Nicaraguan coffee. If that's not going to work I can send the extra back, but if I can make it work that's just easier for everybody.

Got far enough on the current chunk of code to find more bugs to fix. There's a little more functionality to add, but I want to do a bit of clean up first.

My pack of free COVID tests arrived in the mail today.

@gnomon I remember one time I was teaching a coffee roasting class and I called attention to my station instructors before telling the class (truthfully) that I've stolen at least one idea presented in the class from each of them.

@gnomon That's fine. I've made a whole career out of stealing the best ideas I could find.

I think I might order a pizza for dinner tonight.

@goat I don't know if this was ever rolled out, but Venezuela's old communist Internet (which did get used to pretty good effect for factory coordination) was supposed to have dials people were expected to use to report their current happiness.

Grr... the coffee that I ordered is not quite the coffee that was delivered and the one that I wanted most urgently is the one that got replaced with double of a different coffee. Hopefully they didn't double sell my coffee and I'll still be able to get it, but the person responsible isn't answering the phone so hopefully they notice and respond to an email promptly.

The cat wanted hugs last night.

Expecting some new coffees to be delivered tomorrow and then another new coffee next week. One of the coffees showing up tomorrow needs to wait while I sell out of the coffee it's replacing, but the other three I can start working on right away.

It seems that I've been drafted into another guild. I've worked with at least three members in their leadership on some project or other over the years so I'm assuming they want me to work on something again.

The cat is requesting hugs so I guess I'm hugging the cat now.

Always nice to get a phone call from another coffee roaster just to chat about what we're up to these days.

@MyriadTribulations @fribbledom Sadly, remote work and flex hours wasn't really a thing back then and the commute to the next city over would have been rough. Not to mention school during working hours. Wouldn't surprise me if the kids these days are getting away with that, though (and good for them).

@fribbledom The first time I got a message from a recruiter I had to send back a message that pretty much boiled down to, "dude, I'm only 12, someone's going to notice that at the interview."