Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Last night's dream had a battle at the top of stairs at home. I'd finished taking out the skeletons and was turning my attention to a ghost when I realized that the ghost was entering me. Went to the bathroom to check myself in the mirror and saw that my eyes had changed to be pale and glowy then tried to do a scream like a banshee and nothing came out, but I seemed to be pretty chill with all of that.

Once again my arm has become a cat pillow, which is kind of unfortunate because I could really go for some ice cream right now.

How do we feel about cats tonight?

Had a little bit of programming time available today. I started work on a new thing a while back and then got hit with extra work that meant I didn't have time to do much other than writing down some design notes (on paper) while doing that other work. Those paper notes do, however, mean that much of the thinking is already done and I can just slam out some code now.

The cat says its time for hugs.

YouTube thinks I'm not connected to the Internet, so they delivered a page asking me to connect to the Internet. Delivered over the Internet. Which was successful, because I'm already connected to the Internet.

Tried the new classic mode in Tetris Effect. Enjoyed the music, but kept trying to fast drop the pieces, which of course doesn't work. (it's been a while since I've played NES Tetris)

The cat has switched from sitting on my phone to sitting on me.

Surprise coffee delivery. (I knew it was coming, I just didn't know it was out for delivery today,) A bit unorthodox as the skid arrived in such awful condition that the driver couldn't remove his jack, so I did sort of a crap job of unloading that to get him on with the rest of his day faster and now I can finish the job properly. It's all additional bags of things I've already sorted out how to roast so I'll verify the batches but there shouldn't really be any product development work to do.

Tried the new coffee from India. As a light roast it had a neat apple note that unfortunately doesn't hold up well as the coffee cools. On the darker end of a medium roast that same note appears briefly as the coffee cools, but the best overall evaluation was on the lighter side of a dark roast where there's a lot of aromatic intensity, a bit of a spiciness, and it's solid from the first sip all the way until it's cold.

Got to have a little chat today with one of the English teachers I had back in high school. That was nice. She was one of the few teachers I had who I felt wasn't trying to waste my time.

Putting together a little external utility for someone who uses Typica. Trying to strike a balance between getting something out fast so he can start using it without waiting too long and trying to make something that feels better to use. There are a few features that weren't asked for that would also make it useful to me, so I might see about sneaking those in.

Working on new coffees.

It turns out the flickering power last night was much worse for a good chunk of the city. I've come out pretty lucky. I have power, my family has power, my shop has power, all of today's staff has power. The next block over, all the businesses are closed and we've had a lot of customers avoiding their powerless homes, charging their stuff, doing their work from home, &c.

Just had about half a dozen 1 second power outages within half a minute. That was unpleasant.

I'll put some of each on the next order and see if I have customers who want to buy it.

Got samples of Peruvian tea today. One green, one black, both delicious. The green tea is a little grassy but also a little sweet. It continues to be nice at longer extraction times and would likely be a good choice for people who like to do multiple infusions. The black is really interesting with melon aromatics and a bit of an apple note to the flavor. A slightly longer extraction time was recommended here compared with most of my black teas.

Wow, I just got text spam pretending to be voting information giving me the correct polling location, but the wrong date. Looks like someone doesn't want me to vote. (I'm totally going to vote.)

Lap cat is lap catting.

Closed out a few of my coffee contracts today. Next shipment is all just more of the exact same lots as I've had previously so there's no product development work to do with that unless testing the first batch reveals something weird happened in storage, which for this supplier is not something that I'm seriously concerned about, but it's a possibility and I'd be doing the testing anyway.