Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Me: *does a thing*
Cat: *sits on lap*

2nd to last trophy before the plat in Deemo Reborn obtained. Went for the 80% on everything on hard first because that looked like the most difficult one to get. That just leaves perfect on 30 songs, any difficulty.

Today's mail included a message from Obama telling me I should vote. I planned to, but I'll be doing that in person like always.

Production test batches of new coffees tasted today were delicious. I still need to update the shop's web site, but I'm not doing that today.

Christmas Sloth

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the business, but I think it's strange how much coffee I've been shipping to Seattle lately. I've been to Seattle. They have coffee there. Some of it is even quite good. Is that no longer true?

Wild grant application appeared! Filled out form. Will it be super effective?

Tried to fill out another grant application but the site where that's supposed to be is broken (probably because everybody is hammering the site trying to find the grant application) and the application does not appear to even be available yet.

There was a cup on the dark end that was my favorite of the set on the first sip, but that just faded too quickly as the coffee cooled and here again, there are things that I can do in the roast to try to help with that, but it would cause other changes to the flavor that I don't think would work well with this coffee.

Tasted the new coffee from Tanzania today. This isn't going to go out for sale immediately as I need to sell out of my Kenyan coffee to make room on the shelf. It seems to hold up best in a medium roast, but I'll want to tweak the roasting plan a bit to see if I can boost the intensity on that. There are attributes that I don't like on the lighter roasts which I don't think I can fully remove at that level with creative roasting (sometimes I can, but it seems unlikely with this one).

After some tasting and experimentation, I think the idea that I've been working on for this year's Holiday Blend is a dead end. I still have some other ideas that I can pursue, but first I need to work on developing roasting plans for some of the coffees that arrived on the most recent shipment.

My request to pet the video game animals has been acknowledged and added to the suggestions basket.

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi Code them like resistors?

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi They have more flavors than colors. The trick is to buy direct and pick out the individual flavors you like instead of getting the awful pre-defined assortments. But let's be realistic, that's too much work for jelly beans.

They have a 10 word minimum so instead of something like "please let me pet the cats and dogs" they got the relevant Atelier Shallie quest description with a parenthetical explanation that "please let me pet the cats and dogs" didn't hit the minimum word count.

Opened a ticket on Genshin Impact requesting the ability to pet the cats and dogs.