Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Put down fresh glue traps at home. I hope the cat is smart enough to stay out of them.

Yesterday someone saw the sign about the $830ish we raised during our New Year's Day fundraiser for the food bank and decided to push that over $1000 by writing a $170 check. There was another check not counted in that total for $100 and the shop also rounded the cash total up to $1000. It's a good way to start the year.

Today's mail contained my 2018 tax organizer. I used to do my own taxes but since taking ownership in the shop my taxes have gotten complicated enough that it makes sense to just pay my accountant to deal with that.

Another day, another day of not being able to order from one of my suppliers because their web site is down. I'm going to guess that whoever blew that up isn't working the weekend.

#cat

An unexpected side effect of raising a stink about the direction SCA is taking on education is that I've been getting more phone calls from some of my favorite coffee people. I won't be at the committee meeting on Monday since one tends not to show up for such things after resigning, but I'll be having a conversation with the chief education officer and the education director on Tuesday. Back channel info I've gotten suggests they plan to move farther in the wrong direction so I'm not optimistic

It's not collaborative content creation if only one person is rolling up their sleeves and doing the work.

Three days in a row now I've tried and failed to order from one of my suppliers because they took their website down for maintenance. I'm guessing the maintenance crew set something on fire and now they've got people repopulating a product database by typing stuff in manually because what's a backup? That is, of course, only a guess.

(I'm glad I didn't opt for email notifications of new subscribers)

Today I sent out the emails to people who have recently asked me to let them know when the book is available, sending them to https://roastingbook.coffee/

I'm honestly a little surprised by how quickly that list is growing (and you can tell from a lot of the email addresses that these are people in the target market) given the minimal marketing effort going into it.

Given how easy cosmetic surgery is in Star Trek why aren't there people who try on a new species every week?

Updated https://roastingbook.coffee/

Now served up with https, links added to the first paragraph, mailing list sign up form added. Now I can ignore that for a while and get back to finishing the book.

End of the day and the web site for one of my suppliers is still down for maintenance (they were also down all day yesterday). Part of me wonders what exactly they managed to botch so badly to take them down for so long and another part of me is wondering how many orders they're losing as people look to substitute a competitor's product.

I have enough email addresses. I don't need to set up the new domain to do email at all.

Tentatively decided to go with TinyLetter. I'm already using that for the Typica release announcement list and nobody has complained about that. Considered self hosting but decided that I don't want to deal with that.

If DNS records have updated for you, you can check out the extremely basic site for my book at http://roastingbook.coffee

I haven't turned on https yet.

Starting out with a single static page as a placeholder. The next thing is deciding how I want to handle an announcement list so that people who are asking me to let them know when they can buy the book can just subscribe to that.

Setting up the web site for the book I've been writing. Waiting on DNS propagation.