Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@gnomon I think most of the delay was getting the box out of Chicago. Tracking says it's in Toronto now so hopefully that gets delivered soon.

Quality time with the cat

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USPS claims to have delivered 4 of 6 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit that got mailed. One had a failed delivery attempt and the other is going to Canada and will take a while because of that. Shop's web site is updated with a new coffee from Brazil and removal of a coffee from Peru which I can't roast any more of (some is still available in shop).

Today I'm wearing the objectively best sports mascot.

Given that only 8 of the Roasting Styles Exploration Kit boxes were made and there's some good information inside, I've decided to share the PDF. Here it is:

https://atelier.wilsonscoffee.com/s/3zfAmtXFKsAEis4

I want a beverage but there's a cat sitting on me.

2 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit have been packed. A missing word in the write up included with each box has been corrected (I wonder if anybody getting one of the first 6 will mention noticing that). I just need an outer label and a price to see if anybody local is interested in buying those. Once those two are gone, that's it. I'm not making more unless I can expect to move at least 10 of them.

Today I took 6 boxes of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit to the post office. I have enough coffee to maybe make up 1 or 2 more boxes, but if I need more than that I'd have to roast more coffee so I'd want to know I had demand for a bunch of boxes before doing that to avoid wasting a lot of coffee I could otherwise sell as normal product.

@debugninja@banana.dog I'm using a System76 Oryx Pro as my daily driver. Works well EXCEPT: I've replaced the CPU fan (and instead of sending the correct replacement part they sent GPU fans multiple times), a bunch of keyboard keys and the keyboard backlight has failed, and while firmware updates seem to have fixed it, early on I had some troubles where the machine would get itself into a state where the only way to restart was to open the case and disconnect/reconnect the battery cable.

@debugninja@banana.dog I just want something thick enough to fit working fans and a keyboard that doesn't self-destruct before I'm ready to upgrade.

The selection criteria is people I think might find it interesting, people who have worked with me on fun stuff in the past, and people who I have a good recent mailing address to send stuff to (I don't want to send emails asking people for a good address to ship stuff to).

Shipping out another set of Roasting Style Exploration Kit to a few select friends in coffee.

@gnomon Hope it goes through okay. It's been a long time since I mailed anything to Canada.

This one is getting shipped to @gnomon

Waiting on the heat sealer before assembling my prototype of the Roasting Styles Exploration Kit. It includes a half pound each of three different approaches to roasting a single coffee along with an 8 page write up with technical details on each batch and how those were derived from the initial exploratory roast.

@gnomon Got it and your shipping info. Will toss that in the mail Monday.

@gnomon If you did want to send money, there's a link in my profile and that form has successfully taken money from Canada.

@gnomon I was actually just going to not charge for that since this isn't a real product yet.

@gnomon If you want to send a shipping address to me: neal@typica.us I can send a prototype while I work on the write up. Would be interested in knowing how well the observations hold up with other people's water.