Nice thing about having the web site under version control: If I want the details of a past promotional event I can just go back through the updates and read the relevant diff with the details in it (either when that was added or when it was removed). Last year's New Year's fundraiser was spread out over 2 days, but it was a Saturday and a Sunday. This year we'll probably run it over 3 days since it would be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
Related, I'm now in a population category that's recommended to get the third dose of vaccine now so I'll be doing that. There are multiple local sites where you can just walk in and get jabbed and we'd be a lot closer to back to normal if more people were taking advantage of that.
Over 20 years ago when we were on the other side of the street, Santa's suit lived in a closet in the back room and that's where the neighborhood Santa got himself prepared as his chalet was right next door for most of the time we were there and our bathroom was kept very clean.
My shop usually provides cocoa for a local Santa thing, but given that when you think about the various COVID risk factors, Santa has pretty much all of them, things are getting reworked to be able to do something but not be irresponsible about it. No cocoa, so we agreed to just cover the cost of the Santa so the organizers could move on to figuring out the rest of it.
Attempt #1 was just Brazil and Sumatra. It's a rather nutty Brazilian coffee which was overpowering the flavor profile. I wanted something a little darker and a little sweeter, so the Sulawesi and an adjustment in the Brazil so it's mostly medium roast but a little dark roast got me the darker roast flavor, while switching a little of the Sumatran coffee for just a tiny bit of a light Ethiopian coffee brought up the sweetness. Those changes helped tame the nuttiness.
It took 2 attempts to sort out Holiday Blend coffee this year. The first one I was pretty sure wasn't going to be what I wanted, but would serve as a starting point. From there I identified the deficiencies and adjusted the recipe in a way that would address that and I ended up with exactly what I wanted. It has light, medium, and dark roast coffees from Brazil, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Ethiopia to make something very different from everything else on my shelf. Available soon.
I've been somewhat shocked by how well one of my old #GenshinImpact videos is doing and decided to dig into that and find out why anybody was still finding it. Turns out if you type "Qiqi damage" into Google and click over to the Videos section my video is the top hit with enough description promising a 900K combined damage hit. Here's the copy of it on PeerTube.
https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/06776099-4c81-4348-ab7c-3bfe4c0c2697
Working on new coffees. The Sumatran is quite good and is now available for sale on the web site. https://wilsonscoffee.com/products/sumatra.html
Espresso machines repairs have been finished. One of them had a switch with a bit of the plastic not all there that they didn't have a replacement in stock yet but there's another identical switch in the machine that nobody ever touches and isn't used for anything so the switches just got swapped so the one that gets used feels better and the one that looks and feels a little off can get replaced later.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.