Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Gas came back on a little later than I hoped but everything is re-lit now and I don't have to worry about the cat freezing while I'm at work.

I feel like red is the NES Duck Hunt dog but now it's wearing shades while it laughs at your failure.

Which dog are you?

(okay, technically I tagged along sometimes when I was a little kid and my father was getting his degree but I didn't have email then)

How did I end up on the mailing list for donating money to the local university? I never went there as a student, they never gave me an honorary degree, I've lectured there but not as real staff and it's been a while since the last time I did that anyway.

My gas is getting shut off tomorrow morning, but it's just a temporary thing because they're doing utility work.

Group 2 is done and now I don't want to talk for the rest of the day.

Did my roasting demo/where coffee comes from lecture for about 50 kids. One more group to repeat that for.

Oh, I missed that the new chapter of VFiS is translated. https://mangadex.org/chapter/596737/1

I've done this a few times before but I have a chat with their teacher before hand so I can connect what they see to what they're learning in class.

I have a school field trip visiting the shop tomorrow. Half of the group visits the coffee roaster while the other half is at the bakery on the other side of the street and then they switch so I need to do my thing twice.

A couple of Colombian gentlemen visited the shop today. They seemed happy to see the Colombian coffee, related decorative objects, and had some espresso.

All of these are potentially delicious, but the idea is to first understand that you (if you roast coffee) can do this sort of exploratory tasting exercise with any coffee, but also to dissect how different kinds of changes to different parts of the roasting plan impact different aspects of the flavor you get in the cup.

This is about what the plan was for the roasts performed in my latest class, though anything off R series has a bit more flexibility. The goal is to show both a light to dark progression as well as the impact of some of the different decisions you can make about how to get to the end point. R3 is technically performed at 2 different stations. The non-specification of time prior to yellow is intentional because different machines drive differently in that range and it's chemically uninteresting.

I don't have Comic Sans installed on this machine.

Here's the text moved a little farther to the left, yellow dashed line, orange text in the Penguin Attack font set to a larger size.

While light purple with Helvetica is maybe not the best choice, I think I like this a lot better than background coloring or point annotations.

Trying something a little different for marking event thresholds. The first crack and second crack lines shown here can be extensively customized and animated beyond good sense.

The cat has moved back to the cat seat. It must be time to pet the cat.