Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

ugh, bad night for lung function

From today's writing:

"This is not a best practice, but if management is insistent on such a misguided approach, you can at least make your sample evaluation relevant to that reality."

Today lots of people are buying coffee to use in the espresso machines they got for Christmas.

Today I got an email with no body. The whole message fit in a reasonably short subject field so that's where it went. No reply needed. Wish I got more email like that.

Today's work was all about sample roasting. It's heavily based on an article I wrote around 3.5 years ago, but fit with the context of the surrounding chapters and updated to reflect current practices.

Another good day for writing. If I keep up this pace I might have my first draft of the ebook I mentioned earlier done before the end of the year. Maybe get it through editing, technical review, and layout in January? I have too many projects as it is so I'd like to knock this one out as quickly as I can.

In line for lunch there was a guy who was offering everybody coupons. I looked at the coupon and declined because it was for more food than I was going to eat, but the person in front of me failed to realize that she also wasn't getting enough food to use the coupon so I got what was needed so the two of us could split the coupon and we each saved a little money on lunch.

Booked the room for my April trip to Portland, OR. The cheapest option through the event portal was also right across the street from the venue. I gather it's not the greatest hotel, but it's not like I'm going to be spending a ton of time in the room anyway so cheap and convenient wins. Nothing is outside my walking with luggage range from the train station either, so I can just do that.

Did a lot of writing on Christmas but the page count remained the same.

I live with a good cat.

Trying out the fresh box

Mom's cat appears to be a big Wheel of Fortune fan. She likes the sound the wheel makes.

Just a heads up: I'm not making any more of this year's Holiday Blend after January 1 so if anybody wants some of that, get your orders in before then.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Tonight after work I get to test out 3D printed toilet parts. The last flushing handle I purchased turned out to be a piece of junk so I figure I can't have done worse than that at least.

Got notified that someone left the shop a new review. Great coffee, not enough seating. Fun facts: we have the maximum number of chairs allowed without needing to add more bathrooms and I'm not aware of any other coffee shop in Racine with more seating (every other place I've been in has far less). What they really mean is we're too popular.

Ordered more coffees, mostly decaf, won't ship until after Christmas. Also, I have an approved coffee buying plan and budget for 2020!

Got donuts and bread at the bakery this morning before work (yay!). They were very busy (yay!) but having trouble operating the till (groan, too many people trying to use 1 register at the same time, my order got charged correctly but the 2 people in front of me had issues).

Oh hey, Hatsune Miku is coming back to Chicago in 2020.