Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Call scheduled for Wednesday for a follow up interview. This will be the 2nd time I've been interviewed in Roast. Hopefully people will find it interesting.

A little late, but payment for the last class I taught arrived today.

Massive headache today, but I've got most of my range of motion back, so that's an improvement.

Power keeps cutting out.

And now I have an email with interview questions. I guess it'll be for a thing in Roast Magazine. I'll answer those after dinner.

And shortly after Ildi's visit, I had a nice chat with Jim Brady on the phone. He roasts about as much coffee in an hour as I do in a year.

Ildi Revi just stopped in at the shop. We worked together on a lot of things when she was in charge of education at SCAA and I found out that we're both going to be helping out in Anne Cooper's class at Roasters Guild Retreat. Always nice to get a visit from people in the industry.

The heating pad last night helped with the shoulder pain a lot, but I still don't have full head/neck range of motion and there's a persistent ache. What I really need is a proper vacation.

Caller ID just identified an incoming call as "Scam Likely". Yeah, I don't think I'll answer that one.

BTW, just because I'm planning to migrate away from YouTube doesn't mean I'm going to stop making videos. My current plan is to set up a PeerTube instance for new stuff. They're doing a crowd funding campaign now to help get that developed to a 1.0 release.

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform

About the same time as I'm planning on migrating away from YouTube, companies are trying to send me products in hopes that I'll do a feature on them. But I get the impression that they haven't actually watched my stuff because the products really aren't quite in line with the sorts of things that I do.

Heating pad and cat time.

I've had some aches since my run doing the baking and now that I'm not doing that I was hoping that would get better, but right now I'm in rather a lot of pain, which means I'm not getting anything done.

There's a relatively small group of people who, if you've taken a coffee roasting class anywhere in the past few years, one or more of us have probably been directly or indirectly involved in developing content for that. Coffee enthusiasts are unlikely to guess who they are, but it speaks to the quality of the work that it's been adopted so widely.

Had a good discussion about the sample roasting class that's getting delivered at an event in August. I'm not teaching it, but I often get called in to provide advice/feedback/help develop coffee roasting classes.

A wholesale customer came in with a coffee emergency today. I was able to calm them down and make things less urgent for them, but I'll be staying at work a little late because of that.

She likes to stroke my beard. #catsofmastodon

Instance updated.

This bunny was staring at my car after work. It ran underneath when I got closer and I had to check that it kept going rather than stopping in front of a wheel.