Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Working on new espresso blends is difficult these days. You have to put your mask on, make the coffee, then take the coffee away someplace where you can be alone before unmasking to take a sip of the coffee, then mask up for the next attempt, repeat until it's right. And since it's espresso, there's a limited amount of time to taste that at its best. I guess it's good for the people who count their steps.

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static cat zapped me with a nose boop.

I don't know what she intended to ask, but I got a text from my mother inviting me over after work for an extinct third century religion and fries. Her fries aren't very good so I'll stick to my plan of eating my own food and petting the cat.

(this is still not as good as the time a spammer was pleased to understand that I was in the market for life sized animatronic dinosaurs)

Today's spam includes a message from someone who is confident that their cranes will improve my business. Because of course, when you think of vital equipment in operating a coffee shop, cranes are right up there.

People say fuck whatever group they don't like, but this seems like the wrong strategy. What about withholding sex instead?

Today in breaking the game, I was trying to make some progress toward the Practice Makes Perfect trophy in Deemo Reborn and this happened (there's supposed to be vocals and more sound here):

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/f7c0a87e-e5a8-4f39-89f5-dd5ba713ede9

Got 5 different Biden ads in the mail today. No Trump ads.

The shop has been rolling out pre-packed bags of cookies (13 cookies in the bag for the price of 12) and the labels for that can be challenging. Peanut butter cookies, 10 ingredients, made from scratch just like Grandma would make them, but once you list out the ingredients of the ingredients and their sub-ingredients it looks like some highly engineered thing out of a chemical plant.

Me: *does a thing*
Cat: *sits on lap*

2nd to last trophy before the plat in Deemo Reborn obtained. Went for the 80% on everything on hard first because that looked like the most difficult one to get. That just leaves perfect on 30 songs, any difficulty.

Today's mail included a message from Obama telling me I should vote. I planned to, but I'll be doing that in person like always.

Production test batches of new coffees tasted today were delicious. I still need to update the shop's web site, but I'm not doing that today.

Christmas Sloth

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the business, but I think it's strange how much coffee I've been shipping to Seattle lately. I've been to Seattle. They have coffee there. Some of it is even quite good. Is that no longer true?

Wild grant application appeared! Filled out form. Will it be super effective?

Tried to fill out another grant application but the site where that's supposed to be is broken (probably because everybody is hammering the site trying to find the grant application) and the application does not appear to even be available yet.

There was a cup on the dark end that was my favorite of the set on the first sip, but that just faded too quickly as the coffee cooled and here again, there are things that I can do in the roast to try to help with that, but it would cause other changes to the flavor that I don't think would work well with this coffee.