Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

belly rubs

She's trying hard to lick my arm.

I brought a couple containers of yogurt to eat for lunch today but never got around to it. I don't like the days that I don't eat a lunch.

(AT&T can be pretty terrible at Internet period. I dropped them at home after they couldn't manage to get my Internet connection back up within a week)

In the off chance that Dustin Prudhom sees this, I've tried to answer your question but AT&T is awful at mail server admin and they're blocking both of my mail servers for absolutely no good reason. I'll try again if they fix whatever their issue is (they say 24-48 hours), but otherwise please try asking again from an email address associated with a mail provider that's not utter garbage.

Yesterday's test production batch is quite nice. Sumatran coffee, medium roast (getting near to where I'd start considering it a dark roast but not quite there yet). I've been buying this mark for a while now because while it still has that traditional Sumatran earthiness and thick body, if you roast it right you can also pull out this neat apricot note that I think is just delightful.

Just unloaded another 2500ish pounds of coffee. It's hard to do that while the alley is still full of ice.

Got the bill for the replacement water meter (old one froze) at home today. It's not too bad.

The cat thinks my arm is delicious.

Trying to enjoy dinner but the cat is yelling at me.

A supplier wanted to mail back a check, but the check they wanted to mail back didn't come from me so I told them there's no way that would be the right thing to do and they'll do some more research and hopefully figure out which account they should be applying that money toward.

It turns out that while there are clear flavor differences among each of the cups, most of them are quite good. That's useful to know when talking with home roasters because this means they can put the coffee pretty much wherever they generally like coffees and there's a good chance it'll be delicious. That isn't always (or usually) the case.

One of the coffees that arrived yesterday. I taste every new coffee roasted lots of different ways to figure out the approach I want to take in production. Even very similar coffees that might taste the same from one season to the next might require slightly different approaches to roasting to get that match.

The old card was made in TeX.

The new card was made in Krita.

The previous design was double sided with one side having info relevant for my shop and the other having info relevant for Typica, but that doesn't leave a lot of space for notes and if someone isn't writing on a business card they probably didn't need to get one.

It's tricky because I don't want to overload recipients with a lot of info. I also don't want to do multiple designs and have to worry about which one to hand each person. But the reasons someone might want to work with me are seriously all over the place.

Designed a new business card for the next trade event. Instead of a title it says, "I make coffee better." Name, email address, and three web sites. Back has a nice big area for people to write notes on, and the border has my whole bean and ground coffee degree of roast reference photo that I've been using lately.