Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Was about to roast one of the coffee samples that arrived recently and discovered that the coffee in the bag was already roasted. That cuts down the number of batches I need to run. Not used to getting roasted samples.

Last night I had a dream in which I was checking into a hotel and then got on the elevator, but the elevator was a large, dimly lit, but furnished room and pushing the button for the floor that I wanted to go to made the walls move horizontally. At this point I remembered that I'd already had that dream, that it wasn't all that great the first time around, and I could just wake up and skip the rest of it. So I did.

Could actually be a practical solution to some of the problems with roasting companies with multiple production facilities.

Random thought: federated social #coffee roasting?

lap #cat

924 followers on birdsite but I'm getting more interaction in the fediverse. Yes, this was a good idea.

Recently someone bought my darkest roast and wanted to know what I added to it to make it shiny.

One of my (paying) side projects is going well. So far the client is pretty much just letting me do what I want, which means I get to work on new stuff that nobody has yet. That's always fun.

There will be at least a little splash over into Typica as a result of this project.

Another project that I'm not very involved in yet will require a new Typica release as well. All of the code for that one will end up MIT licensed but I still need to keep it to myself for now.

Drinking a cup of yesterday's roast of cemetery dried coffee (the one where I pre-sorted that to remove the defects before roasting).

Opted for a slightly slower (first roast had severe tipping) but lighter roast. I'd like to have a little more intensity of flavor like I got on the darker roast, but the people I've shared both with generally prefer the overall flavor of the one without the defects.

Was glad to be able to taste a coffee that is unlikely to ever be produced commercially.

While I was out at lunch a shipment of chocolate came in. That comes packed in shiny metal bubble wrap to keep the cold in the box. This is nowhere near as good for popping as the more familiar kind.

2nd batch of my cemetery dried Mexican coffee looks much better. I'll taste it tomorrow.

I had extra funds in my Japanese PSN account so I picked up Gensokyo Defenders. It seems odd that all the trophies are in English when none of the rest of the game is. #touhou

FedEx driver confirmed he never tried the front door yesterday. Was expecting 1 coffee sample, got 7. Between those, the coffee I got yesterday, and the coffee I sorted yesterday, there's a lot to do at the lab roaster.

While I didn't get the coffee samples I was expecting, I did get some unexpected hand delivered coffee samples.

Here's the blog post where I write about the stuff that I did in Seattle. https://typica.us/events/2018/05/03/expo-2018-recap.html

81 pounds of tea on the way.