Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Just got back 15 pages of notes from one of my technical reviewers. Overall he likes the book, which is a huge relief for me, and the feedback is exactly what I was hoping to get from him so that's going to be very helpful in making the finished book better.

I seem to be vibrating.

Not liking that someone had a temper tantrum because we wouldn't let them into the shop well after closing.

With all the extra online orders I'm driving more (post office is in the opposite direction from home) but I'm liking the extra-cheap gas. Cost less than $13 to fill the tank from where the low gas warning light comes on.

Finished packing orders for the day unless more orders come in within the next 40ish minutes.

The event I was going to be teaching at next is refunding attendees registrations because the college that's happening at will still be closed on the rescheduled date, so maybe that'll happen in August or September instead, but I've already got stuff scheduled out that far so I sent in my potential conflicts so organizers can be aware of those when picking a new date.

@lilithsaintcrow Next up, Pretty Cure transformations?

I'm thinking that it would be nice to have some videos coming out after the book is released that can be used as educational marketing materials and this gives me an excuse to talk more about decafs. A lot of the conventional wisdom around roasting decafs is outdated now that better coffees are getting decaffeinated and in light of ongoing process improvements, so what I did will look weird to a lot of people who haven't recently verified that their methods still apply.

There's a decaf coffee example in the upcoming book where I made a note of something to keep in mind if I needed to use the coffee as French Roast. Well, I'm out of the coffee I was using for decaf FR now so I went back to that section of the book, decided on a profile change that I thought would improve the results I was getting, tried it out, and now I'm tasting that and the profile change had exactly the effect I was hoping it would. Now I need to rework a couple blends.

Punk the cat says stay home and wash your hands.

March was my best month yet for coffee orders taken on the web site. I've matched that less than half way through April. Just got in another pack of regional rate B boxes for the larger orders.

Loud cat is loud.

Goat 2 Meeting is apparently a thing.
https://www.businessinsider.com/zoom-video-goat-2-meeting-llama-sweet-farm-animals-cameo-2020-4

One of my technical reviewers has finished writing her book so I'll be reading hers while she's reading mine. I've worked with her on education projects before so I'm really looking forward to seeing what she's come up with. The other people I've asked to review my book prior to publication should also write their own books

Based on asking around and the previous unscientific poll here, the last price that I floated for the ebook is probably too low. How does $31.25 sound? https://roastingbook.coffee/rcpd/

Filed sales tax for the publishing company. The book isn't out yet so sales are 0 and there's a convenient check box for reporting 0. Hopefully the comments from reviewers come in soon so I can do final revisions and start selling that. I suppose I could do a pre-order thing, but I don't want to.

The monthly fluff emails from Shippo have always seemed suspect (especially the $ saved), but the latest one seems especially improbable.

My mother got her virus stimulus, but it also included money for my dead father. Have asked an accountant if that's right and advised Mom to not spend half of that in case the IRS decides to claw that back.

The cat has decided to relax on my legs. She's upset that I won't let her shove her head into a bag of day old muffins.

Also, I cleared the Pain Area in Death end re;Quest. I'm doing a NG+ play through to finish up the platinum trophy requirements so I tackled that over-leveled enough that the challenge was only in how tedious the area could be. With the rewards from clearing that, Shina is up at level 176, everybody has equipment upgrades, and I've got enough money to buy my way out of the fetch quests if I'm unlucky with collection points.