Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Sending out my first batch of about a dozen invitations for this instance.

Brought the cat home. She's busy checking on the house.

New passport arrived ahead of schedule, was in the mail box when I got home. The old one will probably show up next week because that's totally how long it takes to punch a hole through it.

Landed safely.

Time to fly home. I think there's dinner on this flight. Arriving late enough that I won't be able to pick up my cat until some time tomorrow.

I still think it's nutty that when Amazon pays royalties on my videos it doesn't just combine different regions into a single transaction. I really don't need ¥1 to show up as its own line on my account statement.

Air travel was better before the TSA.

It's a bad sign when the secutity line runs past the stores just in case you need food/drink/finished your book and need another one to read.

Hot dog lunch in the park. Nice day, why not?

No cat picture today. She's hiding under a blanket. I get to take her back home tomorrow.

Only took until the last night to notice all the charging cables built into the clock in the hotel room.

#cat close up.

Earlier at the event someone asked me if a particular type of control system could be developed (extremely niche use case, but technically possible) and today someone told me about a thing they're developing which would (provided it works) make the initial setup of that quite a bit easier. It's sort of like living slightly in the future of coffee roasting.

One of the odd aspects of how I've positioned myself in the coffee industry is that a lot of people tell me about their cool secret projects and I can't tell anybody about those.

This is the machine I've been teaching at today.

Jim Brady and Rob Hoos delivering another excellent heat transfer in roasting class.

Done with teaching for this event. Time for lunch.

Instructors were all told we'd have HDMI but I was the only one to bring a cable so all the roasting workshops (not CSP) have gone through my cable.

After the Coffee Roasters Guild mixer.

I keep ending up in close proximity to tech companies meeting. I've heard the word blockchain thrown around in entirely too many contexts where 1. the user shouldn't care and 2. it's a terrible way to implement what they're trying to do.