Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Fun fact: if you have an espresso machine with a PID controller that does RS-485 and connect that to a USB serial adapter, you can hook your espresso machine up to Typica. That's a lousy idea as a full time thing but it's nice to have as an option during the initial controller tuning since factory recommended settings tend to be garbage and if you know what you're doing you can get better results than your controller's auto-tune features.

I should probably pull the PID controllers and USB adapters out before the old machines are hauled away. Neither was original to the machine and I can always use more test hardware.

The new espresso machine isn't here yet and my sister is talking about moving up the schedule and getting the other espresso machine replaced as well.

Cat posture.

I need to wash my hands.

went into work early to look over a machine staff was worried about, called a service company whose tech replied, "I'm not touching that," stayed late to do enough of a repair myself, enjoying a test oat milk cappuccino to verify the repair work, the cat will be mad at me for being out extra long.

My yard used to attract cats.

A couple of the younger ones are playing.

Remember several days ago when there was a giant raccoon in the back yard? Now there are at least 5. It's a raccoon family sniffing around my yard! 😍

Timespinner stuff also arrived today.

I haven't measured the ground color but the default pre-programmed roasting plan it comes with gets the coffee to a 58 exterior on the gourmet scale which is right on the standard sample roasting spec. I'll need to mess around with this to get something a little closer on the timing to my standard and I'd like to also see about matching my standard for evaluating the potential of a coffee sample for espresso preparation among other things.

The repaired sample roaster arrived and now it has successfully roasted a couple batches of coffee.

(the cat doesn't speak English, but I was raised by a cat so I understand a bit of their language; this was a translation from cat to English)

This morning the cat wanted to speak with me in the kitchen.

"I notice you've put the last of the old bag of cat food in my dish, but there's a brand new unopened bag of cat food available. You should give me some of that."

So I did and she started eating.

Everything that I ordered with the espresso machine except for the espresso machine itself has arrived. It took way too much torque to get the spouts on the spare double portafilter to line up properly (I needed it to go another 3/4 around). The triple is bottomless so that's much less of an issue (the new machine should have a single, two doubles, and a triple available to use).