Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

working on that dent in the sofa

Last night's dream I was the only customer at a pub where the table has a paper menu that you write your order on. When you're ready to place the order, you ball up the menu and throw it and a small cat chases that down and delivers it to the kitchen. Then you can play with the cat while you wait.

Looks like I get a 2nd trip to the post office today. At least this time I can just shove the box in the wall bin. One of the boxes earlier in the day was too large for that.

Got a call asking if I can prepare her coffee, take the credit card over the phone, and run it out to her truck so she can minimize human contact. Yes, I can do that.

ecommerce in bash

*reads server side Stripe examples in trendy server frameworks*

*does the same thing in a bash one liner*

Had to take a poster out of the window. Local brass band isn't having the concert it's advertising. I let them know that they can bring a replacement poster when they reschedule and we'll put that one up.

Also had a phone conversation with another coffee roaster this morning to talk about the possibility of doing my class online, eliminating the hands on roasting component and shipping participants the coffee to taste on their own during the class (which makes it a lot easier for the class presentation to include real roasting data for all batches). He said he's roasting 60,000 pounds of coffee today. That would be a pretty decent 4 years of production for me.

The roasting competition I'm entering has been postponed to an unspecified date some time August-October. Kind of glad I hadn't started working on my entry and can just leave the coffee in their boxes until that's scheduled.

This is Autumn. She's a cat.

It seems like every time I need to set up a web site to take credit card payments I end up needing to do things a different way. The twist this time around is I know I'll have international customers but I also need to properly handle collecting WI sales tax for customers in WI. None of this is hard, but digging through the various API docs and figuring out just what exactly I need could be easier.

Things have calmed down at the shop (everybody did their panic coffee buying yesterday), but today was my best day for online sales. That's not saying much, but a couple orders came in very close together and one was for a lot of coffee.

Sales of just bulk coffee on the shelf today exceeded yesterday's total sales in all categories combined. I just want to give a shout out to my staff who were awesome today at keeping product on the shelf and doing all the extra disinfecting.

This morning the cat was giving me head pats. (Hello human, pet me here please)

Panic buying of chai has continued and spread to coffee. Supplies of raw coffee to roast are at good levels. We're not in danger of running out. Supplies of empty bottles to fill with chai are very low, but more were ordered before the panic buying started and have a good chance of arriving Monday.

Please keep in mind that fresh coffee tastes better than stale coffee and anybody who shouldn't or doesn't want to come out to the shop can place orders online or by phone and I can mail that to you.