Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I would not be surprised if I have 0 customers for the rest of the day. I've spaced floor mats 6 feet apart for a couple of lines and put out signs letting people know what's going on, including a citation for people to find both the actual order and the section of that order which applies to my shop (11b). It was a decent sales day earlier today and the dead time is letting us catch up a little more on restocking the shelves and disinfecting everything.

Shutting down the seating areas

Found the actual order (would be nice if the news sites covering this would link to the damn primary source material) and it looks like we do need to make some changes. Can stay open, can't offer seating. I'm removing the chairs now.

The Governor has ordered all bars and restaurants in Wisconsin to close by 5PM excluding take out. I do not believe this impacts my shop as we are neither a bar nor a restaurant, but I also recommend staying home, preferring takeout if you do show up, and if you want to call in orders and payment info over the phone I'm happy to run those out to your vehicle so you don't have to get out of your car or touch anything to get your coffee.

working on that dent in the sofa

Last night's dream I was the only customer at a pub where the table has a paper menu that you write your order on. When you're ready to place the order, you ball up the menu and throw it and a small cat chases that down and delivers it to the kitchen. Then you can play with the cat while you wait.

Looks like I get a 2nd trip to the post office today. At least this time I can just shove the box in the wall bin. One of the boxes earlier in the day was too large for that.

Got a call asking if I can prepare her coffee, take the credit card over the phone, and run it out to her truck so she can minimize human contact. Yes, I can do that.

ecommerce in bash

*reads server side Stripe examples in trendy server frameworks*

*does the same thing in a bash one liner*

Had to take a poster out of the window. Local brass band isn't having the concert it's advertising. I let them know that they can bring a replacement poster when they reschedule and we'll put that one up.

Also had a phone conversation with another coffee roaster this morning to talk about the possibility of doing my class online, eliminating the hands on roasting component and shipping participants the coffee to taste on their own during the class (which makes it a lot easier for the class presentation to include real roasting data for all batches). He said he's roasting 60,000 pounds of coffee today. That would be a pretty decent 4 years of production for me.

The roasting competition I'm entering has been postponed to an unspecified date some time August-October. Kind of glad I hadn't started working on my entry and can just leave the coffee in their boxes until that's scheduled.

@yomimono She's just moved to my lap, possibly to try to keep me from going home to my own cat.