Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My coffee from Papua New Guinea is in the country now so I'm hoping to have that back out for sale mid to late next week.

Made an aeropress of the next limited edition coffee. It's been a long time since I've used that brewing method, but this is a coffee that's well suited for that device.

Will I be able to refine my Qiqi build enough to get her to deal >200K damage? https://www.hoyolab.com/genshin/article/286527

I set a new personal best for single target damage with Qiqi in #GenshinImpact

132,603

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/add405d5-747c-4870-b912-7c73159a482a

Saw a ball in my back yard and also saw kids in neighboring yards so I went out to return the ball to whichever group of kids it belonged to. I guess times are different now but when I was their age I'd've just jumped the fence and gotten my ball back.

I found what I want to do with the coffee with a cup that's just a tiny bit lighter than one of the cups from the first attempt. If this holds into a production test roast, the coffee is sugary sweet (as in, if you get a cup of the black coffee you could be forgiven for thinking that someone stirred a packet of sugar into the cup), nicely balanced, greater intensity than cups in the first attempt.

Continuing to work on a new coffee. The first batch was my usual do whatever, pull a dozen cups out at different roast levels, and taste how the coffee performs as it progresses through the roast. In that I identified a range of four cups in the middle where I thought the coffee was at its best, but it seemed like I could do better so for the second batch I changed the timing on the roast and pulled 10 cups that covered the range of 4 from the first batch.

Got a reply back about the mystery soy sauce. They don't want it back so we're going to contact the food bank and see if they know anybody who might want it. I wouldn't be surprised if they said no, but we'll try.

Someone called my #GenshinImpact character tier list "objective truth".

On the way home from work today I saw an oncoming vehicle going about 20mph over the speed limit with a big hyper dog climbing up above the driver's shoulders. That was scary and I hope they got where they were going without killing someone in a car wreck.

Still no reply about whether they want the soy sauce back. I don't think I've ever had soy sauce in a coffee before. Soy sauce latte? The stuff is in 6ml packets so I'd rather not subject my staff to needing to open a bunch of those.

Today's delivery is part 2 of an order that partially arrived yesterday. I got everything that was on the order, but also a case of "less sodium" soy sauce packets which I certainly would not have ordered.

There were three samples. The first was not a bad coffee, just one with an extremely common flavor profile. I can get something equivalent from pretty much anybody selling coffee from that country. The second had quite a few red flags that warn me away from it. It's the sort of coffee that less experienced tasters might think are really good when evaluating a sample but then discover it's kind of nasty in production. The third one lacked dry fragrance, but everything else was fantastic.

Last night I sent an email to someone who sent me some coffee samples. Oddly, the reply didn't come with a sales pitch for the one coffee that I said was exceptionally good. I took a while to bother running the samples through the roaster on account of the prevalence of physical defects on the coffees I enjoyed less so maybe they already sold it all (plus it's not like I asked about pricing and such since I already work with too many suppliers, which I mentioned before he sent the samples).

How did I not notice that weird touhou racing game got a US Playstation release?

me: *trying to sort through today's mail*
cat (screaming): WHY ARE YOU NOT HUGGING THE CAT RIGHT NOW!?

(she calms down once she's had some hugs time)

I found what the cat did.

I asked the cat if she was good while I was at work and she answered no, so now I need to figure out what she did.

Someone is trying to make a coffee delivery. Hopefully they're able to navigate the road construction that their GPS wanted to send them through. (I suggested a better route, but they weren't able to find the streets on their map so...)