Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Having written that down, it's actually a little bit surprising how many new machine designs fail on key criteria. Sometimes these deficiencies mean exercises that should be doable in minutes take hours instead. Others mean your very expensive machine is likely to become impossible to repair within a few decades.

Drafted about six pages on how to choose a good machine for learning to roast coffee. It should also be a good read for someone considering opening a roasting company who doesn't know what to look for in a first production roaster. It briefly covers things like controls and instrumentation, a usable trier, batch size, build quality and availability of replacement parts, budget, and training. No mention of specific brands/models because that would be huge and quickly outdated.

Regional rate B boxes arrived today. They don't stock these at the post office, but it's usually the cheapest way for me to send a few pounds of coffee.

What if everybody knows Kent is Superman but they pretend it's a good disguise because they don't want to hurt his feelings.

There's a cat wrapped aroung my arm.

Mom invited me over for dinner, which is nice and all, but I wish I could convince her that it's fine to use seasonings.

I don't understand people who put butter on cupcakes.

My sister thinks these tables are the same length.

Sounds like the music is done.

Live music at the shop right now. We almost never have that, but it's nice.

Finishing off last night's pizza. I still have $5 left on the gift certificate for next time.

When responsibilities get chopped up to the point that nobody is responsible for anything, problems that have an easy and obvious fix become impossible to solve because nobody has the authority to just do the needful and everything gets hung up because the only person with the authority to do some tiny part of the task got laid off 3 months prior and the person who would have noticed stuff not getting done was eliminated during the merger. But at least it's all documented and CYA'd.

The tea selection at the shop continues to change (one of our suppliers became too insane for us to continue doing business with as a result of getting bought out by a larger company one too many times) so I get to take home the last bit of a really nice oolong tonight.

It looks like the person I've met who was running for SCA board of directors got elected. I met Asli while I was teaching at a trade event in Brazil a while back. She should be a good fit in this new role.

Cat just started hissing and screaming at the basement door. She's usually an easy going cat.

fediverse pizza party

pizza acquired. cat can't have any.

Working late to roast more coffee. Maybe I'll use the gift certificate for the pizza place across the street instead of cooking.