Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

And I'm back. Forgot to silence my phone and I decided not to do a retake over that so there might be one notification sound from that in the background of the next video. Boops while I edit are okay so it's fine to keep boosting my cat.

Going to do some recording. Logging off so cat pic boosts won't boop at me during that.

@Taweret@octodon.social Someone should trace the moral decay of the youth as told by old folks and figure out why we're not all having drug fueled orgies and murder fests right now.

@Taweret@octodon.social Some of the earliest known writings are old people complaining about kids these days and their newfangled whatever making the world scary. You'd think humanity would learn that they've always been full of shit, but this appears to be a timeless trope with no cultural barriers.

#cat wants chin rubs tonight

@cardassianvole My shop is a weird combination. Some things we're very no-tech on and other things we're literally inventing the future.

@cardassianvole Coffee association stuff. I'm going to stop working on curriculum development because the direction association leadership is taking on education is wrong.

Still no official response to the letter I sent a while back so it looks like tomorrow I'll be taking my ball and finding a park that doesn't want an obscene entry fee.

@cardassianvole I try to automate it as much as possible so it's not so bad anymore.

Also tasting some new lots of coffee. My first attempts at the latest lot from Costa Rica were good but not good enough. For the dark roast I decided that I needed to push that a little bit darker and my 2nd attempt was much better. For the medium roast I had the roast level right but needed to roast the coffee slower to improve body and balance. Again, 2nd attempt was right where I wanted it. There's also a new lot from Brazil that I want to taste while I write the label.

Typica (free software I wrote to make various parts of running a coffee roasting operation easier) makes that part of my job a lot easier because the inventory is tracked all the time and I just need to sanity check the report it spits out. It was a lot harder when I needed to dig through contracts and invoices and the results are more accurate than the estimates that I was making before.

Wishing retail workers a happy Inventory Day.

Try 2.

Looks like it ran out of songs.

Enough people were willing to work New Year's Day so my shop is doing its usual start of the year charity event for the 24th consecutive year. All drink sales on January 1 will be donated to Racine County Food Bank. Additional cash donations will also be accepted and there's also a food collection box (though really, all the grocery stores have these so there probably won't be much in that).

Non-removable batteries is a serious contender for the dumbest idea in electronics product design.