Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Had some time to work on the roasting book again today so I'm working on the first chapter on blending. Lots of people are intimidated by blending, but it's too important a part of many product lines to leave out.

Puzzle shelf is set up and people are already using it. The concept is you can choose a puzzle you like, take it home free, put it together, and when you're done you can bring it back so someone else can enjoy it.

Tonight I'll be loading empty boxes into my car. Tomorrow I'll be filling those up with puzzles. A business on the other side of town is going out of business and I've agreed to take over their puzzle exchange. It goes well with the already existing shelf of free books.

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Plus they'll get to taste the same coffee roasted in 18 different ways (9 in a light to dark progression, 9 showing the impact of timing changes in different parts of a light, medium, or dark roast) and learn how to reason about what they're tasting and how to connect that to their roasting data.

It should be a fun class. There are a lot of coffee roasters who get trained in a single very specific approach to coffee roasting or who read stuff that convinces them that they must do things in a certain way and this class is all about breaking that down and empowering roasters to understand the contributions they can make to the finished product and how to make decisions that are right for their coffees, right for their business, and right for their customers.

Part of this is just that I have a lot of repeat instructors who decided they wanted to be part of this class again, but part of it is also that I've written the important stuff down and expect people to read it.

I had an hour scheduled for my class run through meeting, we knocked it out in under 35 minutes.

Every so often I think to check the @chest_bot leaderboard and I get a little disappointed that none of you have knocked my high score down yet.

You, too, can support me spending more time hanging out with the cat.

This is my cat this morning letting me know that I should stay home and snuggle with the cat instead of going to work. If enough companies were paying enough money for me to work on Typica full time I'd do a lot of that work at home with the cat. https://typica.us/

I have another one of these meetings tomorrow but someone else is the lead instructor there (though I guess he wants to restructure it as more like a panel thing so I might take a chunk of the lecture) so I can mostly listen on that one while for today's I'll be talking too much.

All set for today's meeting. This time it's my turn to run through a class that I'm leading with station instructors. There are still a couple slides in the presentation that I'll want to tweak before class, but I'm not going to have those ready today.

Cat is winking at me.

I'm lucky only 1 cat decided to move in here.

https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/120-cats-rescued-from-hoarder-home-canada

20th anniversary barrel shouting game

Work is done for the day. Time to build a city with lots of barrels to shout at.

It feels like a good time for someone to announce a reboot of Max Headroom. Netflix?

Someone said they liked my shirt today.