Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

That still leaves out a surprisingly large amount of relevant work, mostly because people keep asking me to work on cool stuff and like a fool I keep saying yes.

Sent a bio for the next event I'm teaching at. Those always make me a little nervous in part because I am unreasonably experienced in my profession. This time I decided to go with the 20 years of coffee roasting at my shop, creating the first free and open source program for collecting and managing coffee roasting production records, developing and delivering classes and curricula at global events, competition judging, and a plug for the new book that should be available to buy by the event.

The next phone call was from "Google" wanting to "update our listing". The information on our web site is correct so whatever they want to know they can just Google it instead of wasting my staff's time.

I'll probably have a little left over from the competition for an ultra-limited edition offering and if I come in 3rd I'll win more of the coffee to sell.

The coffee for the next coffee roasting competition I'm entering is expected to arrive Wednesday. Everybody is using the same coffee in this one and it's a ridiculously expensive Brazilian coffee. I've used coffee from that supplier at a previous event so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do with that coffee.

So yeah, another solid reason to just stop answering the phone and let a robot hang up on fraudsters.

Someone claiming to be GoDaddy is calling businesses trying to run some kind of scam. First they got an employee and knowing that we have no business relationship with GoDaddy and are fine with keeping things that way I had her let them know that I don't want to talk to them. They immediately called back with the we somehow got "disconnected" line, but this time I answered and all the information they had was wrong so I think they're trying to trick people into giving them credit card numbers.

The coffee plant failed to grow this seed right. Found after roasting.

Got a followup letter from Nielsen a while back claiming they tried but failed at calling me for their survey. What this tells me is that whoever they bought my info from has the wrong number. I'm fine with that and see no need to go out of my way to correct their information.

Figured out a new recipe for Breakfast Blend today. It's using more expensive coffees (new blend combines coffees from Sulawesi, Guatemala, Sumatra, and Ethiopia) so I'm going to need to increase the price, but any orders that come in before I update the web site will get the new blend at the old price. Fediverse is the only place getting that announcement.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

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.