Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

A television crew is out today working on the story I was quoted on in the newspaper yesterday.

Today someone wanted me to ship them 25 teabags. Personally, I'd just look harder for a local tea seller and find something to enjoy there, but if they really want to pay more for postage than for the tea, I'll sell it.

Oddly, nobody mentioned seeing the quote. That might be because it's on 4A (though it's in big bold call out on that page) or it might be because nobody reads newspapers. I can't go to their web site because of how actively hostile it is toward its readers (this is a big part of why I won't buy advertising with them).

Local newspaper used my quote. Someone wants to open a bar near my shop. I'd rather they had food because then I'd be more likely to go there myself, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I'd definitely rather have a bar than a predatory lending outfit.

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T spins should be banned from Tetris.

I've apparently become someone that newspaper reporters talk to in order to get quotes from people about topics they have not thought on deeply. I reject about half of those requests because I know I'd rather read informed opinion instead of what someone pulls out of their ass in 30 seconds.

Placed a 2nd order with one of my more recent suppliers. When first setting up the account I was told to send future orders to a different company that was their local rep, but they had zero communication with me so I put my contact at the company on cc and found out that the local rep no longer has anything to do with them.

A good salesperson can be valuable for a company, but these sorts of regional exclusive deals make no sense in the age of the Internet.

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The unlock button on my car key fob no longer works. I can probably rip that apart and fix it again, but at this point it probably makes more sense to just switch to the mostly unused spare fob.

Another coffee roaster packaged a discussion we had earlier in the year for his newsletter. You can read that at: https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?u=d2242365d3eec7033e7ed870f&id=101265ab93 if you want.

After taking a couple years off from it, tonight I popped "MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies" in the Vita and picked up the last skill based trophy I was missing. Now if I want the platinum it's all grinding.

There was snow when I looked outside this morning, but it's warm enough that nothing stuck to the sidewalk/driveway skirt. Will need to clear the porch/steps unless that melts before I get home.

That's going to go on the shelves later today as Holiday Blend. The thing I like about working on this blend each year is that I don't try to match a flavor profile that I've done previously (it's different every year) and I only need to worry about having enough coffee to sell it for a couple months. It's an opportunity to be creative and demonstrate what coffee blends can be when disconnected from normal business constraints.

That pre-blend I mentioned yesterday turned out exactly as I hoped it would now that the coffee has had time to de-gas. It's a combination of coffees from Kenya and Sumatra roasted darker than I normally take the Kenya and lighter than I normally take the Sumatra (keeping good notes from product development helps). The signature flavor characteristics of both of these coffees are present in the blend, but with a more balanced expression than the coffees display separately.

Tetris with dolphins in VR is how you know we're living in the future.