Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Made too much dinner.

Fresh water filters arrived today. Those have now been installed. Still waiting on a label to return the wrong filters that were originally sent.

New power supply arrived. It was a good idea, but sadly, did not resolve the issue it was intended to fix. My hacky work around still works fine, so I'll just keep going with that.

I think my new strategy for the post office is to go past the usable entrance, park on the street, and take a longer walk to and from the building. The one legal car exit has signs directing everything one way toward more road construction and ignoring the big do not enter on the other entrance like most people seem to do is unreliable as traffic can get backed up there with surprising rapidity. Not using the post office's parking lot preserves the best options for leaving.

The cat is upset that I saw her fall off the couch.

Tried out an HDMI capture thingy and its passthrough is not very passthrough-y. Introduces enough delay to make rhythm games unplayable. Oddly, the USB side of that is better. Watching the OBS window I get less terrible. Pretty sure it's not just me because as soon as I unplugged that I went from not clear to personal best.

Konpaku Youmu is always ready for Halloween.

Replacement fan for the roaster cam arrived just before closing. That's installed now and it should work a lot better.

Can we make it a thing where we say men who can keep their mask up can keep something else up?

How to get on the bad side of your barista: Insist on trying to order some stupid made up drink that's not on the menu and won't even taste good, keep taking off your mask, fail to flush the toilet.

Some new mugs arrived today, but not the Christmas Sloth mugs.

what'cha doin?

It looks like the place I get my water filters from had a mis-pick at their warehouse. Received cartridges that probably fit my filter heads, but they're smaller and do entirely different things to the water so hopefully they can figure out a way to take the wrong filters back and send what I ordered. I have a couple slower filters that do comparable things with the water chemistry that I can swap if that takes too long so it's not an emergency, just an annoyance.

Production test batches turned out well. I'm seeing about updating some blends to use that next.

9 is representative of what I'm looking for in a dark roast for this coffee, while 12 is just perfect for something that you'd sell not as Guatemala Antigua but as French Roast, and since my Brazilian coffee isn't here yet I think I'll try that.

6 is firmly in line with what I've done with this lot in the past for a medium roast. It was a toss up between this and 5 for that, and 6 was just generally a nicer roast. Better body and balance, more interesting flavor. Coffees in this range had a very nice caramel fragrance straight out of the roaster.

3 is what I'd do if I were looking for a light roast, though it's only just barely fitting my definition of that, roasted to a point just a tiny bit before the start of 2nd crack. Sweet, has a very subtle lemon flavor that a lot of people would fail to notice. I'm not going to do a production test batch of this one because I don't have the shelf space to add it and if I did try selling all four, this is the one that my customers would buy the least.