Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@mike Should someone tell Zuck about shipping?

Today's coffee tasting was a new coffee from El Salvador. Natural process, Pacamara from a farm that my sister has visited. This performed pretty well across the whole range so I'm going to do production test batches of a light, a medium, and a dark roast, brew full pots of those, and decide what I'll sell based on how those perform.

Today's junk mail was of a religious nature. It wanted me to imagine a world with no healthcare and no medicine and tried to spin that dystopian nightmare in which I would have died several times over by now as a hopeful vision of the future. Sorry, but if I wanted the be fed that kind of shit I'd become a Republican.

@codingquark @tomasino @gnomon I'm not current on grinders these days to competently give advice on specific models. I will say that drip brews can be made pretty tolerant of iffy grinds (I often use my worst grinder for those at home because it's fast).

@codingquark If stores in your area carry it, there are some decent oat (pretty commonly available) or hemp (less so) milks as well.

@codingquark Thicker/heavier milk or milk substitute is probably the easiest approach there.

@codingquark You can't make a modern cappuccino with coffee from such a thing, but if you're willing to go back far enough in cappuccino history you can get close enough to one of those.

Cat says it's time for cuddles.

My supplier would have taken the extra coffee back if this didn't work out, but it's easier for everybody if I don't have to do that.

Production test batch using the new coffee from Nicaragua as a French Roast turned out good. I wasn't planning on roasting the coffee like that, but a warehouse mis-pick means I have twice as much of that coffee as I ordered so being able to use it for something that I sell a lot of will help me use the excess in a reasonable amount of time.

Finally got through to someone and my coffee supplier will send the coffee that I didn't get. I'll do some tasting and figure out of I can use the extra Nicaraguan coffee. If that's not going to work I can send the extra back, but if I can make it work that's just easier for everybody.

Got far enough on the current chunk of code to find more bugs to fix. There's a little more functionality to add, but I want to do a bit of clean up first.

My pack of free COVID tests arrived in the mail today.

@gnomon I remember one time I was teaching a coffee roasting class and I called attention to my station instructors before telling the class (truthfully) that I've stolen at least one idea presented in the class from each of them.

@gnomon That's fine. I've made a whole career out of stealing the best ideas I could find.

I think I might order a pizza for dinner tonight.

@goat@hellsite.site I don't know if this was ever rolled out, but Venezuela's old communist Internet (which did get used to pretty good effect for factory coordination) was supposed to have dials people were expected to use to report their current happiness.

Grr... the coffee that I ordered is not quite the coffee that was delivered and the one that I wanted most urgently is the one that got replaced with double of a different coffee. Hopefully they didn't double sell my coffee and I'll still be able to get it, but the person responsible isn't answering the phone so hopefully they notice and respond to an email promptly.

The cat wanted hugs last night.

Expecting some new coffees to be delivered tomorrow and then another new coffee next week. One of the coffees showing up tomorrow needs to wait while I sell out of the coffee it's replacing, but the other three I can start working on right away.