Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Paper documentation of the new publishing company's registration for tax purposes arrived in the mail today. It looks like I could legally start selling in Wisconsin immediately if the product were ready. Sadly, it is not. I still have a few todos to slam out on chapter 5 and rather than a glossary of terms I'd like to put in an "Explanation of Terms" chapter, which lets the section on each term provide more educational value.

The cat has decided that it is time for her to get belly rubs.

The event I'm teaching at in April is instituting more hygienic practices for tasting in all classes because of you know what. Personally I think that should be the norm at these events even when there isn't a major disease concern because the minor disease concerns should also be taken seriously.

SimAnt was a good game.

If some day you call my business and find that the phone is answered by a robot, it'll be because of something like this.

Credit card processing companies are getting more aggressive in their cold calling lately, but I get multiple such calls every single day. That level of attempt to waste my time only ensures that they will never get my business. (best way to sell me on your service is to send enough information to make an informed decision on paper sent through the mail and never call me)

Fortune cookie says international travel is in my future. I'm on my third passport so I guess that checks out.

Wrote a new section for chapter 5 that I noticed was missing. It's the touchstone that connects everything back to what I was writing about in chapter 1.

The down side of Bloomberg dropping out is his campaign people spent a lot of money on drinks in my shop. Tipped generously, too.

It's a cat.

The grocery store had a pack of giant inflatable lions. Why does the grocery store have giant inflatable lions?

Drank too much espresso today. Need a nap.

Thinking the book might need a glossary of terms. I intentionally deviate from some common terminology and doing this gives me a place to put jokes and more math.

One of the spreadsheets being used to organize this event was shared with me. Clicking over to a different tab revealed organizer comments about all the presentations. The one next to my session reads, "Very popular teacher at SCA events. Class always sells out."

I hear there's still attendee space available for the next event I'm teaching at. I'm scheduled for the 2nd block of time after Mike Ebert's class and before lunch. I'll be talking about decisions that can be made when creating a coffee roasting plan and will have some coffees available to taste to demonstrate the outcomes of some very different decisions, each of which is something that a company might plausibly choose for use in their product line.

https://northcentralcoffeelab.com/pages/north-central-roast-summit

As espresso a bit of chocolate comes out of the darker roast and there's enough intensity that it should hold up in a milk drink. While it could work in an emergency, the overall flavor profile lacks the complexity I like in an espresso. Should work well as an ingredient in a blend.

The lighter roast only had slight changes from the initial exploratory roast which again boosted intensity, this time of a nutty flavor that I wanted to highlight in this coffee, but also had the pleasant surprise of introducing just a little bit of a honey flavor that connects well with the sweetness in the cup.

The roasting plan for the darker roast is likely to look strange to people who get their roasting plans from others. I massively stretched out the period after the color change from yellow to brown prior to first crack and then pushed faster through to the end. The goal was to get a cup where the smoky flavor expected of a French Roast dominated the cup without sacrificing intensity of flavor (identified as a problem in a faster exploratory roast) or body.

Test batches with the new coffee from Brazil turned out very even in roast. 0.4 points difference between whole bean and ground degree of roast measurements on the medium roast, 0.0 points difference for the darker roast.