Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

If you've ever had trouble getting a human at a business on the phone, blame the people selling credit card processing. My staff bounces enough of those calls every day that it would be worth sticking a robot on the line just for them to say nothing of all the other cold call junk.

Took my sister to the hospital. Nothing too awful I expect, but needs a professional.

Time for the evening cat visit. #catsofmastodon

I have a cake cooling, but it's still too hot to cut.

I made rice crispy treats but they sold out fast.

Making chai concentrate. One of these days I need to scale up the equipment so I can make >4 gallons per batch.

It's cat season in my back yard again.

Quality time with the cat

Was called into work early today for emergency cookie baking. Now I'm enjoying the test production batch of a new coffee and waiting on a coffee research and education committee conference call.

cat lick

Over lunch I outlined what I'd like a new video series on coffee evaluation to look like and... it's a lot of videos. Still, I think it's worth working on and I've tried to structure it such that I can work on it a little bit at a time as I'm able to make time for it.

Got a BOL for another 800ish pounds of coffee. This one won't need any product development work because it's a shipment from coffee under forward contract (forward contracts with a delivery spread are a common tool to ensure availability of a specific coffee, spread the cost over time, and not need as much on site storage) and I've already gotten some of it. I still have the same amount on contract to ship later in the year.

It's hard to write code with a cat licking your wrist.

Cat visit

New coffee from Kenya is really tasty at a few different roast levels. Making it harder to decide what I want to do with that.

A mastodon shirt arrived in the mail yesterday. It still smells bad from printing, but that comes out in the first wash.

This is a case where the download link is really handy. Lots of instructors don't know how to download from legacy tube and terrible Internet connectivity is pretty common at instruction venues so if people are using my stuff like that I'd really prefer them to be able to fetch that in advance rather than break the class flow with technical difficulties.