Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

This is Autumn. She's a cat.

It seems like every time I need to set up a web site to take credit card payments I end up needing to do things a different way. The twist this time around is I know I'll have international customers but I also need to properly handle collecting WI sales tax for customers in WI. None of this is hard, but digging through the various API docs and figuring out just what exactly I need could be easier.

Things have calmed down at the shop (everybody did their panic coffee buying yesterday), but today was my best day for online sales. That's not saying much, but a couple orders came in very close together and one was for a lot of coffee.

@debugninja@banana.dog Space Station Pheta, the game where the sound effect for jumping is a guy saying. "jump".

Sales of just bulk coffee on the shelf today exceeded yesterday's total sales in all categories combined. I just want to give a shout out to my staff who were awesome today at keeping product on the shelf and doing all the extra disinfecting.

This morning the cat was giving me head pats. (Hello human, pet me here please)

Panic buying of chai has continued and spread to coffee. Supplies of raw coffee to roast are at good levels. We're not in danger of running out. Supplies of empty bottles to fill with chai are very low, but more were ordered before the panic buying started and have a good chance of arriving Monday.

Please keep in mind that fresh coffee tastes better than stale coffee and anybody who shouldn't or doesn't want to come out to the shop can place orders online or by phone and I can mail that to you.

cat equips morph ball

census form arrived in the mail today. looks like I got the short form.

all the chai concentrate made today got sold. we'll make more, please don't panic buy the chai.

@debugninja@banana.dog 2016 had low voter turnout (about 55%) and Trump didn't get the popular vote, so it's more like ~25% voted for that. Which is still pretty bad given his history.

A promotional poster for the coffee roasting competition I've entered arrived in the mail today. That was unexpected, but maybe I can use it if I have some leftover coffee to sell (or if I win more of the coffee in the competition).

Sent a proposal for my class still tentatively scheduled for April (but looking increasingly likely that it might be postponed) for a way that it could work with brewing instead of cupping. The roasting section gets, I hope, a little more fun. It cuts back on the amount of tasting a little bit, but allows more time for tasting and discussion while still meeting all the objectives for the class.

Panic buying has hit Racine.

North Central Roasting Summit is being postponed until May instead of taking place next week. The new date fits on my calendar and I'm close enough to local that the change in schedule isn't a hardship.