Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My laptop bag has been working on falling apart for a while now and I think it's about time to replace that. I like the fabric on the current one, though, so I should try to pull the stitches and see about turning it into other stuff once I have a replacement.

Someone left a book at the shop (we have a shelf where people can abandon their books or freely take books others have left behind) featuring one of the Internet's celebrity cats and it's a little sad because I know that particular cat is dead.

Having more wine with a cat on the label.

Sent out a bunch of IKAWA profiles for students in yesterday's class. I had 16 of those for a variation on the workshop done with that roaster, 8 batches that go from light to dark roasts then 2 batches with timing variations (faster and slower) for while the coffee is yellow, brown, between cracks, and beyond 2nd crack.

Back porch cat is still there, was watching me cook a late lunch.

Back door cat is still napping.

Today's online class had more technical difficulties than I'd like but overall seemed to go very well. Lots of positive comments from students.

There's a cat at the back door. Guess I'm not going outside. (it would disturb the cat)

Puyo Puyo Tetris has a decent plot as far as Puyo Puyo or Tetris games go.

Here are the graphs. B-1 has a 15.71% mass loss and the ground coffee measures 53.7 on the Agtron gourmet scale. B-2 has a slightly higher 15.86% mass loss and a slightly lighter 53.9 degree of roast. Those post-roast measurements are closer than some roasters get trying to follow the same plan but these are clearly very different roasts.

Going through the roasting data for tomorrow's class and I'm really excited about the B-1 and B-2 pair. I roasted these to the same ending temperature but according to extremely different roasting plans (B-1 is a pretty extreme profile), ending up with ground degree of roast and percent mass loss measurements that are almost identical, so it's a great example to show the limits of using those numbers as a proxy for consistency. I think I need to add another slide for this pair.

When you're giving head pats but she wants belly rubs

The covid rules are playing hot potato. First the state governor's office came out with orders which the courts struck down, then the city mayor's office came out with orders that basically put them back and the courts struck that down, so the alders turned it into an ordinance to put it back and I'm assuming someone is gearing up to challenge that in court.

Saw large urban wildlife leaving my back yard today.

Was looking at the quarantine area of the puzzle exchange and saw a set of 5 puzzles. Four of them have shorelines. The fifth has no water except in cactus form. I guess there are only four places in the world with water and they just can't do that as a theme in a 5 puzzle set.

Just saw a web site where the main text was in some wingdings or similar font (I think by accident because it's usually not) so if you want to read it, the easiest way to do that is to copy the text and paste it into a plain text editor (so as to not preserve the font).

An update just hosed the encrypted vault that had my passwords in it. Little help, NSA?

Last night I took a nap with the cat pretty much immediately after work, woke up while the sun was still up and it took a while before I realized it wasn't this morning and I should make dinner instead of breakfast.