Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Dentist was able to get me drugs today, will do more Monday.

I voted.

Product development cupping for the next Ethiopian coffee: sweet lemon drop candy most prominent on cups 3 and 10.

The latest Musynx update wiped out my scores, custom control settings (I find the defaults unplayable), but I think songs also got added?

Today's mail: what the DoR giveth, the DMV taketh away.

I think I need to figure out how to get a dentist to look at me tomorrow. Half of my jaw is numb and my face is swelling.

The brewery that made some beer with my coffee is doing another batch.

The free puzzle shelf now has signs explaining the concept in English, French, and Spanish. That covers the most common languages I hear people speaking here. Italian is rare here (only hear that a few times a year) and the German speakers do a lot of code switching so I figure they're covered.

My car still smells like last night's pizza.

My phone went beep. Someone sent me a cat pic.

There's a local election coming up. I vote for the people who are daily customers because they tend to be helpful about getting problems fixed and providing information. Elected officials who hide from the people are bad news.

When you run into a coffee like that, it can be interesting to sort a sample of that back out into its constituent parts and try roasting the separate components and comparing those with the combined coffee. You'll often find that the combined coffee is superior to either selection, and doing that exercise is a good way to start busting myths that some green coffee buyers believe about excessive sorting.

While writing about blending that sometimes happens at origin (at the mill or exporter) I got to use the phrase "bimodal distribution". Finding a raw coffee with a bimodal distribution on some physical attribute (color of the raw seed is easiest to spot) is a good indication that some kind of blending happened before the coffee reached the roaster.

The cat's on a rampage.

I put too much crushed pepper on my pizza.

It's been almost 9 months since I put anything on my blog. I should probably do something about that, but not today.

Updating my

I know a guy who complains about his company's "blend to value" program, but there are actually creative ways to use neutral blenders and I'm not sure if there's any literature on that at the moment so I'm spending some time writing on that. Cost control/profit enhancement/price stability is only one aspect there (also mentioned) which tends to be the only focus when that's discussed.