Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Working on book graphs. This is what I'm aiming for if I'm doing my normal sample roast on the IR-1.

The cat had a stressful day today so we played one of her favorite video games tonight to help her calm down.

2 more shelves built. These have tea.

New shelves loaded with coffee.

Assembled 5 of 7 bookshelves.

Earlier might have been a good time to mention the drink.

Bat quarters!
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a30447453/bat-quarters/

The other is maybe putting a Roasting Styles Exploration sample kit up for pre-order. I figure I could do one version of that with roasted coffee and supporting information and another version that also includes some green coffee so home roasters can either try to replicate their favorite sample or hypothesize a different approach tailored to their preferences.

One is doing a ticketed event at the shop where I can give a more general audience version of the class (change up the lecture, no roasting, simplify the tasting).

Lately I've been thinking of pre-roasting some of the stuff I want people to taste in my next class for more reliable results and hopefully to provoke better conversations around those. If I do that, there are a couple of follow on things I'd like to do since I'll have already done the hard part:

Did some more layout design for the ebook, also took delivery of 7 boxes of new shelving that I am not going to try to assemble tonight.

cat: what are you doing and why isn't it petting the cat?

Smart Mart (local organic/health food store that just opened recently on the other side of town) started selling my coffee today. Hope that goes well for them.

Pro tip: you're not on an episode of Frasier. Don't order coffee as if you were. (every place has a menu; using words that exist on that menu improves the odds that you get what you want and avoids turning the ordering process into a game of 20 questions)

I think I need a better answer to, "how's your Dad?" than, "well, he died in September, so..." Any advice?

Cat time

Tonight's grocery run is the most disappointing one since that time when not 1 item in the ice cream section had cream listed as the top ingredient.