Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

3rd coffee wants to be quite dark.

The 2nd coffee is more narrowly delicious with the lightest cup and the darkest 2 cups coming out rather poorly. I can see someone deciding to do something on the lighter or darker side within those bounds, but I think it's best within just a few degrees starting at the start of 2nd crack. There's a very dramatic shift in the overall balance of flavors right exactly at the start of 2nd crack where everything nice about the coffee has both been developed and not been destroyed.

First coffee I need to taste today is quite good across a broad range of roasts. There are a few different kinds of flavor that can be pulled out here, but I can only pick one and it'll be something on the lighter side, though if any home roasters decide to pick it up, they can probably do whatever they generally like and they'll get something pretty good out of this one.

Life is better with cats and I'm pretty sure that's not just the mind control parasites talking.

Tomorrow I need to taste 88 cups of coffee.

It's now after noon the day after my sister was told the coffee would arrive in the morning. The tracking page at least says it's out for delivery.

Delivery window for coffee was "morning". The time is now 1:41PM and it has not yet arrived.

Was very disappointed in the gelatin cup selection at the grocery store. Prices were also way too high so I opted for pudding instead where the selection was also bad but at least it was cheap.

Disney's Gargoyles is the story of how Thomas Riker was transported to 1980s Earth where he used his historical knowledge of the future to get rich and meddle in the timeline. This precipitated the biggest cross over event in Star Trek history when an all star cast is assembled as undercover temporal agents trying to set right what once went wrong and save the Federation.

One coffee shipment has arrived. I still have 2, maybe 3 shipments to bring in before the end of the year. The uncertainty around the last one is that the shipping container arrived with damage so if it turns out that the coffee is wrecked my supplier will not be selling it to me. At least one of the remaining shipments is scheduled for Monday and that's the one that has the most types of coffee and the ones needed most urgently.

When I got to work I caught my sister about to go off and buy donuts. My previous stop was buying donuts so I just shared those. I have a coffee delivery to unload today so I want to get the calories in me for that.

The rice cooker has successfully cooked rice. There are still two features that I wish were standard:

1. An estimate of how long until the cooker thinks it's done so I can decide if I stall on plating other parts of the meal or if I rearrange the dish.

2. A proper off setting (rather than needing to unplug the thing). I'll never intentionally use the Warm setting. All I need are Cook and Off.

Also got a smaller rice cooker. Mildly disappointed that the included coupon for $1 off my next bag of rice expired 11 months ago, though I guess that goes a long way toward explaining the sale price.

Didn't go out of my way to make this happen but 100% of today's grocery run hit a sale price.

The cat was very patient waiting for me to open the laptop again and finish installing the upgrades now that I could. New machine now has 96 GB of RAM, 8 TB of storage. Sister's machine is coming with 16 GB RAM and I'll be able to put in the 16 I took out of mine to double her memory.

Replacement SSD retaining screws have been delivered. This time the package contained the product. I helped my sister order a new laptop today and I'll pull that apart when it arrives, pop in the RAM that I pulled out of mine so she'll start with a free upgrade and I'll check if hers is also missing a retaining screw for the unpopulated slot, install one of my spares if she needs it.

New dream last night. I was coaching someone who was training for mascot try outs.

The cat is demanding hugs.

Turns out the new laptop is missing the retaining screw for the unpopulated SSD slot. Was able to migrate the system install to one replacement drive, but I can't install the other drive until I get a screw. Original drive moved to an enclosure so I can still use that if needed.

Today I spent about $20K on coffee. Coffee is expensive right now so I'm going to have to charge a lot for it.