Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Perhaps the class that I'm most excited by that I'm not teaching is an update to the sample roasting class. Jim Brady has taken a lead on modernizing this and has recruited Karl Schmidt, Olivia Miles, and myself to rework this with the realities of modern sample roasting technology in mind.

Expo is over which means that instructors are getting lined up to teach at retreat now. I've been asked to deliver Roast Level Exploration and Profile Design (the class I designed for Expo) again and I'll be helping Anne Cooper with her excellent class, Can You Taste the Roasting System?

If you're interested in teaching, now is the time to reach out to SCA staff to express that interest. The hard part might just be deciding which classes you're interested in. Lots of cool stuff in the works.

Drinking the gift coffee from yesterday. Despite the massive tipping, the presence of dried fruit pulp still in with the coffee, and my just improvising on the roast instead of running it through a proper product development process, it's not bad. Can certainly see some potential in it.

I was cautioned against going too light on this, but for the next roast I think I'll stop a bit prior to the start of 2nd crack (maybe 4/5 between cracks) and slow the roast down. Also sort out the pods.

Did a voice over recording for my next roasting video. I'm not completely happy with my performance and the cat started yelling at me about half way through so I'll probably do a retake later to have more to work with in editing.

Customer praise for certain classes of business software (scheduling, for example) read rather dystopian and I wonder if the people who wrote those quotes understand just how deeply problematic the situations they're creating really are. At least it's a good signal to prospective employees (the ones who research the companies they're considering working for, at least) to stay far away.

I should probably do a hand sort before roasting the other half of that to at least pull out the pods. Want to taste this before roasting the rest of that. #coffee #roasting

Normally my lab roaster only gets 2 pound or 100 gram batches depending on the purpose of the roast. Today I'm roasting some gift coffee and since I have 600 grams I've decided to split that into 2 300 gram batches so I can try a couple different roasts with that.

The cat is back to normal, greeting me at the front door when I come home from work, wanting to sit on me while I'm trying to eat dinner.

Welcome new people! Wondering what might be good for a first toot? How about an #introduction so we can get to know each other. You can even pin that to your profile.

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.