Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

One of today's deliveries included a cat sticker.

Now more than ever the Trump administration understands that the American people need reliable medical information they can trust. That's why the White House is partnering with Nintendo to make Dr. Mario the mouthpiece for all future COVID briefings.

Another order came in on the web site as I was packing the orders that went out today. I'm leaving the new one for tomorrow as I'll roast some fresh stuff for that.

How to tell a product is not made just for the US

The film starts with a close up of a cat wearing a lab coat with what at first appears to be the name of the movie, "Paging Dr. Cat." The camera then pulls back and to the side to reveal the full name, "Rampaging Dr. Cat."

@stux He's faking it to have an excuse for skipping out on the rest of the debates.

It looks like a substantial fraction of my income for October is going to be refunds/reimbursements from past purchases: my roasting competition entry fee is getting converted into cost of goods that the shop will pay me back, the insurance company is refunding my deductible from when my car got rear ended, and there's a refund from a concert that got cancelled (last I read they were hoping to reschedule to April, but now that's not happening).

why the hell am I watching the debate?

Looks like Miku Expo has given up on being a thing so I'm just getting my money back. Miku says stay home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e29aYbcF6_A

The cat says it's time to pet the cat.

Here's my completely off the wall presidential debate prediction: in an effort to appeal to younger voters and the parents of future younger voters, Biden will try to work in a quote from a musical number in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Trump will fail to catch the reference.

Batch #2 of the limited edition coffee has also mostly sold. It looks like I might need to roast batch #3 tomorrow. I'm working on a write up of how I approached roasting that coffee, but unless I stop getting distracted and am able to slam out the words the coffee might sell out before I can publish that.

Signed up for a food manager license class/test since my old license is expired. I have employees who have the same license so it's not a problem that mine isn't current, but I'd rather not have to rush on that in the unlikely event that everybody just quit on me or something.

Batch #2 matched up perfectly with the first batch. That empties out my first 10Kg box of green coffee (the empty box is now part of the product display). I have one full box left which I'll similarly split into a couple production batches in part because I'm not expecting the coffee to continue selling at the pace the first batch went and in part because my production roaster can't do the profile I chose for this with a large batch size.

All but 1 pound of the first batch of my competition coffee sold by the time I got to the shop today. Will need to roast another batch today. https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/auramatina.html

Sad table is sad.

New coffee is up for sale on the web site. People are already buying it in the shop, too. https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/auramatina.html

Limited edition coffee is now out for sale in the shop. I've reserved a few small bags to send as gifts. Next task is getting it up on the web site where it hopefully doesn't sell too quickly (I'll need to take it down before I sell more than I have).

Half pound labels done. Those look very similar and I was able to keep the top block of text exactly the same. I was hoping for that as I rather like how the top of the ff ligature snugs in with the curve at the bottom of the E above it.