Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Decided to enter a little coffee roasting competition. I swept the last one I entered but this time around I'm kind of hoping for third place.

I should record another episode of Coffee and Code. I haven't done one since May and it was supposed to be a monthly-ish series.

The more I think about it, the more this kind of professional coffee journal written as something with an eye toward publishing it makes sense as something I'd like to do and I wouldn't have to limit myself to just the coffees that turn into a product on my shelves. Once I'm done with the current book I can mess around with concept pieces to prepare for working on that and see if I still think it's a good idea.

One of the former drug dealer tenants, shortly after moving in, tried to sell my father crack. He declined to purchase then walked the 1 block to the police department to let them know that his next door neighbor just tried to sell him crack. The police reply, "well what do you want me to do about it?"

The last owner before it became a rental property sold the place for $7,000. He totally got scammed on that one and could have gotten a better offer from a more responsible buyer.

Someone was out at my house because they got confused. Looking at maybe buying the house next door that's been vacant for a long time (ever since a tree fell on it). My father tried to buy the property a long time ago just to keep it from getting rented to drug dealers (it used to be every couple months the cops would haul away one set of dealers and the landlord would turn around and rent to their dealer friends) but the asking price was obscene. New ownership can hardly hurt at this point.

First coffees of the day. Each cup is a different coffee, but they're all Colombian. 2 are decaf.

Nielsen still hasn't followed through on their threat to phone survey me. I think whoever they bought my number from just has it wrong.

samosas were a good idea

saw a super fast raccoon running down the street on my way home

making samosas

I'll be getting the 10 pack of ISBNs so I may as well have some uses lined up.

Random thought of the day: what if I did a detailed write up of every coffee I worked with over the course of a year (or however long it takes to get enough material) and turned that into a book?

Ran out of breakfast food at home so I stopped at a bakery before work for donuts and a loaf of bread. Need a proper grocery run after work.

I might replicate those roasts again for the tasting component of a lecture I'm doing next month.

The last box of Roasting Styles Exploration Kit just sold. I'll be removing mention of that from the front page of the web site but I'll leave the document linked from the Sulawesi product page. PDF link below.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/pdfs/roastkit.pdf

Shoveled snow. Now time for cat hugs.

Fraud department phone person saw a ton of stuff that hadn't hit the web interface yet. Apparently whoever was trying to use our card had like 20 orders each for thousands of dollars of alcohol. All declined now.

So after the fraud department freaked out about a totally valid charge from a company the shop's purchased from many times, they failed to catch several thousands in fraudulent orders for wine.