Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat hotels should be a thing. Like a regular hotel but the doors all have cat doors on them and the place has a whole bunch of adoptable cats that might choose to hang out with guests. Feel free to steal this business idea.

@yomimono The cat was definitely the high point of the place.

@yomimono It was some place in Thailand. I forget the name but I get the impression it's not that uncommon in that part of the world.

Maybe the hotel will have a cat for me. I stayed in a place like that once (cat showed me the way to my room on check in, sometimes tried to get into the room when I was heading out, had to let it in from the balcony once and am not sure how it ended up out there, and it hung out with me in the lobby while waiting for the ride back to the airport).

That's the big down side of this trip. I'll miss the cat.

I wonder if I can get my sister to email cat pics while I'm travelling. She usually texts those, but I'm not going to count on my phone working as a phone out of the country.

Never got a tracking number on the replacement replacement fan (since the wrong part was sent the first time around) and I'm running out of day. I was told I'd get it by today, but I'm running out of day for that to be true.

The Blur

Should I upload blurry cat photos?

Today the company that checks and does maintenance on our fire extinguishers came out to re-tag those. About an hour later the fire inspector came through. No violations.

Production test roast of the coffee I was working on yesterday turned out really nice. We'll be switching to that probably while I'm out of the country (unless sales become really awful). I don't normally take coffee with me when I travel but I might make an exception for this one.

Dungeon curry

@boulderingandbaristaing I've long stated that espresso has a lot of room for a roaster to make a statement (I've had a lot of wonderful shots that I would never serve in my own shop) and I've got nothing against blowing minds, but when I try blends that don't perform well both with or without milk they're never marketed to communicate that and they're rarely mind blowing the other way.

In theory I agree with you, but in practice I've yet to encounter that.

Laptop currently sounds like one of those tiny prop planes that you need to get into places with tiny grass runways surrounded by mountains (or rather, getting back out of such places) or how you might imagine such a thing sounding as it's sputtering while running out of fuel.

It looks like the last thing that I wrote might be getting released outside the working group on a faster time table than I expected. This is fine.

What's the appropriate level of inebriation for dealing with US airport security?

The machines are old enough that I'm using the thickest conical gaskets I can get.

The non-cleaning supplies were replacement group gaskets for two espresso machines so I can get those in before I leave.