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I now have sample roast profiles on the IKAWA that both take the same time and time in ranges, both have the same end color (58.5 external) on my control coffee, but one is automated on exhaust temp and the other is automated on inlet temp.

Today I'm operating both my largest and my smallest coffee roasters at the same time. The little one has automated controls so it's not like I'm really doing much there.

Did the design for my full page/full width floats today.

The IR-1 has some characteristics that you might not see on other coffee roasters. For example, I'm hitting the maximum rate of change pretty far out from where that starts to plateau because the machine is overpowered on the front end (though prone to stalling on the back end so you have to know your machine to hit that particular example plan even running it at tenth capacity).

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Working on book graphs. This is what I'm aiming for if I'm doing my normal sample roast on the IR-1.

The cat had a stressful day today so we played one of her favorite video games tonight to help her calm down.

The other is maybe putting a Roasting Styles Exploration sample kit up for pre-order. I figure I could do one version of that with roasted coffee and supporting information and another version that also includes some green coffee so home roasters can either try to replicate their favorite sample or hypothesize a different approach tailored to their preferences.

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One is doing a ticketed event at the shop where I can give a more general audience version of the class (change up the lecture, no roasting, simplify the tasting).

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Lately I've been thinking of pre-roasting some of the stuff I want people to taste in my next class for more reliable results and hopefully to provoke better conversations around those. If I do that, there are a couple of follow on things I'd like to do since I'll have already done the hard part:

Did some more layout design for the ebook, also took delivery of 7 boxes of new shelving that I am not going to try to assemble tonight.

The real question is if all the University’s hot water fountains are going to offer me free hot water, why there isnt a single place I can spend twenty cents for a teabag?

Tired: Gonzo journalism

Wired: Statler & Waldorf journalism

Hired: Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem journalism

cat: what are you doing and why isn't it petting the cat?

Smart Mart (local organic/health food store that just opened recently on the other side of town) started selling my coffee today. Hope that goes well for them.

Pro tip: you're not on an episode of Frasier. Don't order coffee as if you were. (every place has a menu; using words that exist on that menu improves the odds that you get what you want and avoids turning the ordering process into a game of 20 questions)

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