Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The cat has decided to help me set up the space for my online class next week. She's in frame both when she decides to be in my lap or if she wants to sit on the chair next to me.

Today the post office does not have an exit. I was stuck blocking traffic while 20 vehicles left through something that some idiot designed as an entrance only, but they had no choice because the exit no longer existed due to road construction. How 20 vehicles managed to be done with their mailing at the same time to cause such a huge blockage is a mystery. I also used the not an exit after leaving my 24 boxes (all regional rate A).

Just happened to take a look at my YouTube analytics and for some unknown reason Google Search all of the sudden started directing a ton of people to one of my old coffee roasting videos yesterday. No clue what that's all about.

I'm reminded of a couple industry friends of mine. One of them helped me (and many other people) develop a curriculum that's been used all over the world. The other was paid a lot of money by the company the first one worked for to come in and teach that, apparently unaware that they already had one of the authors of those classes working for them.

That's kind of fun since they're more likely to just put the coffees on their cupping table at work and send a big aggregated report from their sensory team.

Looking through my student list since I need to ship coffees for that now, some of the people in the class work for extremely huge roasting companies.

Production test batches of the new Ethiopian coffee both turned out nice so I'll have a tart, sweet light roast with berry undertones and a dark roast that's got a neat bergamot thing going on.

The cat thinks I should get one of those sweaters with a cat pouch, but I'm not going to do that.

I need to taste production test batches tomorrow, but if all goes well my next coffee from Ethiopia will be available as both a light and a dark roast.

Opens network monitor, briefly sees 12GB/s on the upload. Yeah, there's no way that's true. (WiFi, major US ISP)

Bought a webcam. My laptop is falling apart so I want to make sure I have something if I need to switch to a desktop machine for my next class, but I'm also getting a much higher quality (in every metric) feed than I was getting from the built in webcam.

Looked in the freezer, discovered I still had ice cream I thought I ate.

My sister wanted to go in for half of a birthday present for my mother so we picked that out today. During checkout I discovered that I had enough points on a credit card to cover the whole thing that way so it's sort of like I'm not paying anything and have another check to deposit.

A totally normal and sensible racing game.

The cat has declared it cuddles time.

Lately the cat has been trying to convince me to stay home from work. Today it was by rolling around and looking cute. Yesterday it was by hiding my phone (I thought to look under the cat and there it was). She has a very poor grasp of household economics.

The dripper did not come with any filters. I have some at home that will fit.

It's from a sponsor of my next online class. Everybody who signed up for that gets an electric gooseneck kettle (in white according to the shipping notice), a cupping spoon, a scale, a double wall glass dripper, and a glass server.

I just got a big box of stuff. It's got a bunch of fragile and glass stickers on it, so of course the box is smooshed, but shaking it a bit I think inside the box is well enough packed that everything should be fine.