Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Drinking the gift coffee from yesterday. Despite the massive tipping, the presence of dried fruit pulp still in with the coffee, and my just improvising on the roast instead of running it through a proper product development process, it's not bad. Can certainly see some potential in it.

I was cautioned against going too light on this, but for the next roast I think I'll stop a bit prior to the start of 2nd crack (maybe 4/5 between cracks) and slow the roast down. Also sort out the pods.

@vkess Thanks. She's a very good cat.

Did a voice over recording for my next roasting video. I'm not completely happy with my performance and the cat started yelling at me about half way through so I'll probably do a retake later to have more to work with in editing.

Customer praise for certain classes of business software (scheduling, for example) read rather dystopian and I wonder if the people who wrote those quotes understand just how deeply problematic the situations they're creating really are. At least it's a good signal to prospective employees (the ones who research the companies they're considering working for, at least) to stay far away.

I should probably do a hand sort before roasting the other half of that to at least pull out the pods. Want to taste this before roasting the rest of that. #coffee #roasting

Normally my lab roaster only gets 2 pound or 100 gram batches depending on the purpose of the roast. Today I'm roasting some gift coffee and since I have 600 grams I've decided to split that into 2 300 gram batches so I can try a couple different roasts with that.

@monocacycoffee Thanks and welcome.

The cat is back to normal, greeting me at the front door when I come home from work, wanting to sit on me while I'm trying to eat dinner.

@NorthRiver Welcome, and thanks for the kind words.

Welcome new people! Wondering what might be good for a first toot? How about an #introduction so we can get to know each other. You can even pin that to your profile.

Sending out my first batch of about a dozen invitations for this instance.

Brought the cat home. She's busy checking on the house.

New passport arrived ahead of schedule, was in the mail box when I got home. The old one will probably show up next week because that's totally how long it takes to punch a hole through it.

Landed safely.

Time to fly home. I think there's dinner on this flight. Arriving late enough that I won't be able to pick up my cat until some time tomorrow.

I still think it's nutty that when Amazon pays royalties on my videos it doesn't just combine different regions into a single transaction. I really don't need ¥1 to show up as its own line on my account statement.

Air travel was better before the TSA.

It's a bad sign when the secutity line runs past the stores just in case you need food/drink/finished your book and need another one to read.

Hot dog lunch in the park. Nice day, why not?

No cat picture today. She's hiding under a blanket. I get to take her back home tomorrow.