Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@debugninja@banana.dog My plan for that was to go with American. There's no personal or cultural relevance for me where a bunch of people who died before I was born came from and I've never considered myself a hyphenated American.

Lots of empty shelves, but cat food was available. For human food, there's stuff I would have bought had it existed, but I can just eat different foods than planned. Did not strictly need anything that's unavailable at the 1 store I checked. Also got my mom broccoli because she forgot that on her last trip.

@Satsuma We don't have special shipping boxes aside from the usps flat/regional rate ones so anything not going in one of those gets a box that something was shipped to us in. It just so happens that 2 pounds of coffee fits nicely in a box that originally held 6 cans of tea.

I haven't been to a grocery store since panic buying set in, but I need cat food so I'm going after work. Wish me luck.

current mood

Also got what I think is the first online order from someone in the same city. Have had a few from nearby counties but far enough away that I wouldn't want to do the drive either, but it's mostly been people who are farther away.

The online orders getting shipped today so far have all gone out in boxes that claim the contents are tea. It's really coffee inside.

The puzzle exchange used to have one where you put the puzzle together and then try to find all the cats hidden in the picture. It looks like that's been replaced by one that's the same concept but with horses.

I'm going to collect a couple more days of hourly sales data but we'll probably start reduced operating hours on Monday. It looks like people mostly stop showing up around 4PM and people aren't in a huge rush for their on the way to work coffee first thing in the morning, so maybe push the opening a half hour later. Will figure out if weekend hours need to change after this upcoming weekend. The web site, of course, takes orders for coffee to ship 24/7.

People are asking about gift certificates so I put a thing on the top of the site letting people know that we don't charge for postage if you want us to mail those. That's not a new policy, but historically that's only been used by people from out of town giving gifts to locals. Also posted drink/tea menus to help with higher volumes of call ahead orders.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Quality time with the cat

I somehow ended up on a mailing list for some company that does weird free industry events in the UK and they're claiming to do a health and safety one really soon and like, really? You're really expecting a couple thousand people to show up at that event in the UK in early May? (not as if I ever go to any of their events, I don't even know how I ended up on their list)

Had a good chat with a roaster friend in New Zealand today.

The cat is really into the belly rubs tonight.

Sales in the last hour and a half of the day (starting when people just relying on news headlines might think we needed to shut down) came to $6.51. Earlier in the day sales were decent. Will see what happens tomorrow.

Not much yet in the way of actionable feedback from the technical reviewers for my book, but the first impression after just skimming it has been highly positive, so maybe the book as it is right now is not complete garbage (I sent it to people I trust to tell me if it is). I didn't think it was, but it's nice to hear other people I respect agreeing with that.

Website updated with what's going on. https://wilsonscoffee.com/