Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Finally figured out how to delete my instagram account. I haven't touched it in ages but today I got email letting me know about my 23 "new" followers (some of which I know have been following the account for over a year) which provided some fresh motivation to just eliminate that. People can look at my cat pictures here instead.

This is how cats stack.

Can we have the Star Trek prequel that chronicles Morn's criminal exploits prior to DS9?

I wouldn't mind an excuse to go back to New Orleans but failing that I should cook up some shrimp creole.

oolong tea time

Making tea.

Drafted book sections on roasting decafs, robusta, monsooned, and aged coffees. I decided that this was a good place to introduce doing bulk density measurements. Next up is a chapter on production consistency.

80% of the coffee in the previous espresso blend is either coffee that no longer exists or coffee that I expect to run out of soon so I spent some time today working on a new blend. Espresso with a roast date of today or later will be:

40% French Roast (Brazil Sul de Minas)
30% Timor L'este (medium roast, chocolatey)
20% India Seethargundu Estate (quite dark, boosts the body)
10% El Salvador (natural process, medium roast, increases sweetness)

This morning the cat woke me up with head pats. She ate all the food in her dish.

Opened a bag of banana chips and the cat came running.

My tax return is ready. The refund gets applied going forward and it looks like nothing is owed on estimated taxes until the end of the year. If the book I'm working on sells well that might change. https://roastingbook.coffee/

whiskey and cat time

Me: Good evening, Wilson's Coffee & Tea
Caller: Is this the fish market?
Me: No, this is Wilson's Coffee & Tea.
Caller (disappointed): Oh...

Answered the phone again. It was another person who wanted fish.

A lot of cool work has gotten done by customers in my shop. I've seen people working on new construction technology, new medical technology, several books have been written here over the years, &c.

Had to tell someone that we don't have fish. Because I guess nothing says "fish" like "coffee and tea".