Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat was talkative after work. Asked if she was a good cat and she seemed offended by the question.

Was just forwarded a thing letting me know that my shop is considered part of a critical infrastructure industry by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of DHS), which makes it harder for the state to shut us down or prevent us from coming to work if further emergency actions come out. I think this means that even if a shelter in place order comes out we should still be able to ship web orders.

I'm still waiting on some feedback from my review team, but I'm thinking I might push off the book launch until at least April 1 even if that feedback is prompt enough to get the book out sooner. The local sales tax rate is changing (going down) effective that date and that'll save me the trouble of needing to change the tax calculation data so soon after launch.

My alderman stopped in to buy lattes for everybody working at one of the local pharmacies. We're also doing lots of coffee roasting today. It looks like we'll be switching over to the next lot of Kenyan coffee soon so I'll have to figure out how I want that roasted.

Looks like the May Miku concert has been rescheduled for September. Hopefully other stuff doesn't get rescheduled to a conflicting date.

The cat thinks I should stay home and nap with the cat, but there's lots of coffee to roast.

cat: *hug*

Coworker is listening to the Frozen soundtrack because why not

Mailed a gift certificate. We're not at the point of begging people to buy gift certificates, but I'm certainly not going to turn down the sales.

Next box shipping out previously contained infused dried cherries. The contents are now coffee.

Another tea box containing coffee went out today. I may have finally memorized the box dimensions.

Lots of empty shelves, but cat food was available. For human food, there's stuff I would have bought had it existed, but I can just eat different foods than planned. Did not strictly need anything that's unavailable at the 1 store I checked. Also got my mom broccoli because she forgot that on her last trip.

I haven't been to a grocery store since panic buying set in, but I need cat food so I'm going after work. Wish me luck.

current mood

Also got what I think is the first online order from someone in the same city. Have had a few from nearby counties but far enough away that I wouldn't want to do the drive either, but it's mostly been people who are farther away.

The online orders getting shipped today so far have all gone out in boxes that claim the contents are tea. It's really coffee inside.

The puzzle exchange used to have one where you put the puzzle together and then try to find all the cats hidden in the picture. It looks like that's been replaced by one that's the same concept but with horses.

I'm going to collect a couple more days of hourly sales data but we'll probably start reduced operating hours on Monday. It looks like people mostly stop showing up around 4PM and people aren't in a huge rush for their on the way to work coffee first thing in the morning, so maybe push the opening a half hour later. Will figure out if weekend hours need to change after this upcoming weekend. The web site, of course, takes orders for coffee to ship 24/7.

People are asking about gift certificates so I put a thing on the top of the site letting people know that we don't charge for postage if you want us to mail those. That's not a new policy, but historically that's only been used by people from out of town giving gifts to locals. Also posted drink/tea menus to help with higher volumes of call ahead orders.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/