Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My favorite coffee on the table today was also the lowest grade. Sometimes that happens because coffee grades are based primarily on physical qualities, not sensory ones. There's often a correlation there, but exceptions are legion.

Today's cupping session has a coffee that was pre-roasted by the importer. It's easy to tell which one that is because it's lighter than the sample roasting spec.

Was chatting with my mother earlier today and she asked if I was driving to the next event I was teaching at. It hadn't occurred to me but a ~13 hour drive each way doesn't sound so bad right now.

I imagine this is how work gets done on Star Trek's Earth.

https://www.thedodo.com/on-the-farm/rooster-works-at-autoshop

The cat has been petting me more lately. She's getting good at it. Still can't get her to do back massages.

also took off early to spend time unconscious with the cat.

Today's dental work went really fast but post-op involved a bit more pain and blood than last time. I have a good supply of ice cream and pudding.

For any kids wondering when you'll ever use your high school math, given the diameter of one hose and the circumferences of a power cable and another hose, will all three fit through an existing hole in your 1 inch granite counter top? #RealWorldMathProblems

Packed an order for shipping. This particular customer is a regular but their order is for an amount of product that basically maximizes shipping cost per unit product. They're paying that and I'll sell them what they want, but if they were willing to add or subtract one from their usual order and adjust order frequency to compensate they'd be saving so much money on shipping.

USPS should bring back Regional Rate Box C.

It's 5:13PM, which is entirely too late to be eating lunch so I'm just going to pretend that a cookie is lunch so as to not spoil dinner.

Wrote a check for the house repairs I've been trying to get done for the past year. I'll need to write 2 more of those as the work progresses and when it's finished, and then we'll need to sort out what the next repair priority is. The house is over a century old and while the bones of it are extremely good (designed and built by a carpenter who intended to live there) there's a lot to maintain.

Watch this space for more info: https://www.crgretreat.coffee/

As usual I'll be working with the people putting that event together to figure out how the class needs to be adapted for the given venue (how many stations are we running, what's the class size, incorporating feedback from the last time I delivered the class, &c.)

I've been invited and have accepted the offer to teach at the next Roasters Guild Retreat outside of Atlanta, GA this August. I'll be delivering my class twice back to back, which means my throat will be raw by the end of that day.