Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Gallon bottles of chai are out on the shelf now. The hope is that people who buy multiple half gallons at once switch to that instead of wiping out our supply of quarts, but I also made signage with the whole use within 7-10 days of opening instructions very large as someone who doesn't drink 2 gallons of chai in a week should stick with the smaller bottles so it doesn't go bad on them. (it ferments in a not dangerous but also not delicious way)

Return shipping for pink boxes and giant shopping bags is apparently close enough to the value of the products that the company that sent those instead of test strips and cocoa powder doesn't want them back. I might haul the boxes over to one of the local bakeries and see if they want any free boxes appropriate for donuts and I'm not sure what makes sense for such enormous plastic bags. Maybe emergency trash can liners if someone fails to buy those?

Time for another trip to the post office. This time it's a regional rate and a flat rate box. I overestimated my need for large flat rate boxes a long time ago so I'm still sending out an old holiday design with a snow person on one side.

The cat is not good at Tetris.

*big yawn*

Finished my online workshop. I think it went really well but I'll see how everybody's feedback forms turn out. One thing that was interesting here is that for the 10 roasts that students tasted there was no consensus on what their favorite was, with the exception that nobody picked D-1 or D-2 (the things between my start of 2nd crack medium roasts and my not quite out to a French Roast) as their favorites. The cat was good throughout. So, I'll be doing this again next month.

Affectionate cat is affectionate.

Cat supplies acquired. Today's odd grocery stocking? Peanut butter is mostly just in small bottles. Maybe they've got the same problem I'm having at the shop. My bottle supplier doesn't have bottles so I'm sold out of half gallon chai for probably a few weeks. I can still sell quarts until my existing stock of those run out, but if the bottle supply doesn't recover I might have to start selling people gallons which are normally reserved for businesses.

If Trump doesn't like twitter fact checking him, he should just spin up his own personal gab instance and move there.

I should buy cat supplies tonight so I don't need to leave the house tomorrow.

What I ordered: chlorine test strips (for checking sanitizing solution) and high fat cocoa powder

What the warehouse shipped: bright pink boxes and super jumbo XL shopping bags.

These are not appropriate substitutions.

Finished the final tweaks to the slide deck for my class tomorrow. Despite adding several new slides, I managed to trim the total number of slides to fewer than the last time I delivered the class.

Opened another bag of coffee and the liner inside, instead of being properly closed like all the other bags of that lot I've opened so far, it looks like they just ran the same sewing machine used for the outer jute bags across the inner liner. Maybe they ran out of zip ties?

This is how the batch with the highest mass loss ended up looking. The numbers in the notes hanging off the graph are all generated directly from the underlying roasting data. Measurements in the table are mostly interpolated since it's rare to get measurements exactly on the second. They end up based on 2 measurements less than half a second on either side, so not much difference compared with taking either the previous or next measurement.

The custom program is a C++/QML mash up and I tweaked that to also output to the console the LaTeX table so I could just copy/paste that.

Sent everybody the roasting data for the workshop I'm teaching online on Friday. What I did with that is I took the data logged in Typica, loaded that into a custom program that gives me a more flexible graph that I can programatically annotate as seen in many of my videos. Save a PNG of the marked up graph, use XeLaTeX to arrange the name of the batch, percent mass loss, the graph, and a table showing time/temp/rate every 30 seconds (plus the last measurement).

Got to watch a giant black cat wander through the yard while I was washing dishes.