Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Making tea.

Drafted book sections on roasting decafs, robusta, monsooned, and aged coffees. I decided that this was a good place to introduce doing bulk density measurements. Next up is a chapter on production consistency.

80% of the coffee in the previous espresso blend is either coffee that no longer exists or coffee that I expect to run out of soon so I spent some time today working on a new blend. Espresso with a roast date of today or later will be:

40% French Roast (Brazil Sul de Minas)
30% Timor L'este (medium roast, chocolatey)
20% India Seethargundu Estate (quite dark, boosts the body)
10% El Salvador (natural process, medium roast, increases sweetness)

This morning the cat woke me up with head pats. She ate all the food in her dish.

Opened a bag of banana chips and the cat came running.

My tax return is ready. The refund gets applied going forward and it looks like nothing is owed on estimated taxes until the end of the year. If the book I'm working on sells well that might change. https://roastingbook.coffee/

whiskey and cat time

Me: Good evening, Wilson's Coffee & Tea
Caller: Is this the fish market?
Me: No, this is Wilson's Coffee & Tea.
Caller (disappointed): Oh...

Answered the phone again. It was another person who wanted fish.

A lot of cool work has gotten done by customers in my shop. I've seen people working on new construction technology, new medical technology, several books have been written here over the years, &c.

Had to tell someone that we don't have fish. Because I guess nothing says "fish" like "coffee and tea".

Got back from my cat hug break and there's a cement expert at the shop teaching a younger guy about some pretty advanced stuff.

Today has been an all around terrible day. Once my afternoon staff is here I want to go home and hug my cat.

Reminder that when you use Typica for your coffee roasting and production data, that data is stored where you want it, whether that's on the computer at your coffee roaster, a computer on your local network (recommended when you have multiple roasting machines or just prefer to study data away from the machine), or out on the Internet if you really need that (you almost certainly don't). You control where your data lives so another company can't take that away from you. https://typica.us/

Utility work was happening. There was a thing that they were scheduled to do in my house next week but as long as they were already there I just let them take care of that early.

One of the rubber strips on the bottom of the laptop has fallen most of the way off. I own glue that's appropriate for fixing that but it's not where I left it.