Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Related: any local politician who wants to lose my vote, the best way to do that is to avoid being seen in public and not return phone calls.

Talked with one of my local politicians (I vote for people I see who are willing to talk to me about stuff like this) who will look into any city licensing I might need for the new publishing company. He suspects (and the limited research I've done also suggests) that the answer there is none but he'll double check that for me, which means I just need to deal with the state DOR and then all the legal crud involved in setting up a new company will be finished.

Received contracts for a few thousand pounds of coffee that I'll need later in the year. One of them is good, the other one leaves me with a couple months gap that I need to figure out how I'm going to fill.

Got back the registration documents for the company I spun up to publish my upcoming books. Roasting Book Press, LLC is now an honest to goodness real company. I was looking at the options for business accounts at the credit union I use for my personal banking and those are actually pretty good so I should be able to get that set up Friday and then have business expenses paid out of that.

Started the day by buying the office computer a new mouse. The old one was one of those Apple bluetooth things with hidden scrolling functionality that broke a long time ago. Today it was fully dead. The new one was the cheapest wired mouse I could buy locally. No batteries, clear indications of the interactive parts, no batteries, no waiting for it to connect (and reconnect). I think the cheap USB mouse is the better product.

The cat has declared it is now hug time.

It's 2:08AM. The cat is requesting cuddles.

Put together a new figure for chapter 2. This takes screenshots from two batches on the IKAWA: one with control based on exhaust temperature, the other controlled by inlet temperature. The plans are such that on one coffee it resulted in my color change and crack events happening at the same time, same overall roasting time, same whole bean and ground degree of roast measurements. Under the screenshots are graphs of the heater setting through each roast (which the app doesn't show).

Accountant was out today to work on my tax stuff. Asked her if there was a sales level for the book where we should review my tax situation. Got an answer.

All my todos are removed from chapter 1. I'm hoping to do the same with the rest of the book and get it out for technical review about a week from now. While I'm waiting on feedback I'll be spending more time on the business side of getting ready to sell the book. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and people can get the finished book early March. In the final stretch.

I just made that stack and the cat walked up to it and *shove*

Cat decided to knock over a stack of books.

Hello, cat.

Requested the printer print something. It went through the motions of moving the paper but deposited no toner at all. Let's try that again.

Picked a name for my publishing company, purchased ISBNs. I'll be publishing my books through Roasting Book Press. The name didn't seem to be taken and I already own the domain.

https://roastingbook.coffee/

I'm trying to be selective here, preferring things that are easy to find and affordable (free is considered affordable) rather than packing in a ton of citations to out of print stuff that exists in maybe 2 or 3 libraries in the US or stuff in expensive paywalled journals.

Rather than a terse bibliography I've decided to go with a section at the end of each chapter with recommendations for further reading that goes into a little more depth in terms of what you should be looking for in other resources so the reader can better decide if that's something that's going to be useful for them.