Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Reminder that Janeway murdered Tuvix and the Voyager was worse for it.

Big orange cat wandered through the yard while I was making dinner.

Accidentally followed a link and ended up on birdsite. Apparently Lex Luthor is trending and I don't think I want to know why.

My bread turned fuzzy so I guess it's ice cream for breakfast.

Finally finished writing an article on how I approached roasting my latest coffee. There's also stuff in there about the weird world of coffee roasting competitions.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/articles/2020-10-competition-roasting/index.html

A service dog came into the shop today and asked for pets so I got to pet the dog.

Here's the cat sticker.

One of today's deliveries included a cat sticker.

Now more than ever the Trump administration understands that the American people need reliable medical information they can trust. That's why the White House is partnering with Nintendo to make Dr. Mario the mouthpiece for all future COVID briefings.

Another order came in on the web site as I was packing the orders that went out today. I'm leaving the new one for tomorrow as I'll roast some fresh stuff for that.

How to tell a product is not made just for the US

The film starts with a close up of a cat wearing a lab coat with what at first appears to be the name of the movie, "Paging Dr. Cat." The camera then pulls back and to the side to reveal the full name, "Rampaging Dr. Cat."

It looks like a substantial fraction of my income for October is going to be refunds/reimbursements from past purchases: my roasting competition entry fee is getting converted into cost of goods that the shop will pay me back, the insurance company is refunding my deductible from when my car got rear ended, and there's a refund from a concert that got cancelled (last I read they were hoping to reschedule to April, but now that's not happening).

why the hell am I watching the debate?

Looks like Miku Expo has given up on being a thing so I'm just getting my money back. Miku says stay home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e29aYbcF6_A

The cat says it's time to pet the cat.

Here's my completely off the wall presidential debate prediction: in an effort to appeal to younger voters and the parents of future younger voters, Biden will try to work in a quote from a musical number in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Trump will fail to catch the reference.

Batch #2 of the limited edition coffee has also mostly sold. It looks like I might need to roast batch #3 tomorrow. I'm working on a write up of how I approached roasting that coffee, but unless I stop getting distracted and am able to slam out the words the coffee might sell out before I can publish that.

Signed up for a food manager license class/test since my old license is expired. I have employees who have the same license so it's not a problem that mine isn't current, but I'd rather not have to rush on that in the unlikely event that everybody just quit on me or something.

Batch #2 matched up perfectly with the first batch. That empties out my first 10Kg box of green coffee (the empty box is now part of the product display). I have one full box left which I'll similarly split into a couple production batches in part because I'm not expecting the coffee to continue selling at the pace the first batch went and in part because my production roaster can't do the profile I chose for this with a large batch size.