Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

So far I've only tasted one of these new roasts, but the body is much improved and there's more intensity of flavor. Less sweetness on the initial sip, but it still comes out nicely as the coffee cools. I might run some of this through the espresso machine later and see how it performs there.

The person who recently sent me a bag of coffee that ended up delivered to the wrong address sent a couple different roasts after I told him that it didn't show up, but before my neighbor got around to bringing it over. That arrived today.

The coffee in the previous shipment was a nice, sweet, clean light roast. I commented that just as a matter of my own personal preference I'd probably opt for something a little darker to bring up the body.

The new shipment has darker coffee and I do prefer.

There's a cat walking through my back yard.

I should go back there some time.

In Thailand, the hotel I was staying at had cats. There was one cat in particular who showed me up to my room when I checked in, tried to walk into my room as I was heading out. One night I found it out on the balcony and had to let it back into the hotel, and it waited with me while I was waiting for my ride back to the airport.

This video shows the inside of some of the coffee shops I visited during my 2nd trip to Brazil.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/6d37f6f6-8701-4514-9202-b5af36caa4f7

My most recent trip there I got a call about a week before an event from someone who wanted to know if my visa was still good and if I could fly down on that short a notice to teach some classes. I already had a vacation in Thailand booked for a week after that was over so I spent a lot of time in the air that month.

More high end laptops should come with giant HDDs instead of tiny SSDs. I get that people like the performance boost from using SSD, but you destroy all those gains as soon as you need to start copying stuff off over a slow external bus to make space for whatever it is that you're trying to work on. Use the savings to load up on RAM and don't use a system that crashes all the time and you probably come out ahead in the long run.

Bulk uploads like that are going to be a lot less common from now on as everything going forward will either be new stuff or stuff that I want to do a little more editing on.

Some of them are still processing, but today I moved a bunch of travel videos to https://video.typica.us/

Video from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, and Mexico.

Did I somehow never edit/upload a video of last year's roasting tent? I should see if I can dig that up some time.

When I'm asked for career advice, one thing that I say is if you have the opportunity to do something cool, take it. Saying yes to working on interesting things leads to more people asking you to work on interesting things. This is how I've been able to travel around the world.

Last month someone sent an encouraging message to the alt PSN account that only gets used for access to stuff on the Japanese store.

Most of my station instructors for the class I'm teaching next month are confirmed. Was told I could reach out to them to introduce myself, but they're all people who I've previously worked with or have had conversations with so I hope introductions aren't really needed.

The problem with going into work for my first cup of coffee is that I don't realize that I should be going to work a completely different way because all the sane routes have been shut down by road construction until it's too late.

Morning cat