Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

After some tasting and experimentation, I think the idea that I've been working on for this year's Holiday Blend is a dead end. I still have some other ideas that I can pursue, but first I need to work on developing roasting plans for some of the coffees that arrived on the most recent shipment.

My request to pet the video game animals has been acknowledged and added to the suggestions basket.

They have a 10 word minimum so instead of something like "please let me pet the cats and dogs" they got the relevant Atelier Shallie quest description with a parenthetical explanation that "please let me pet the cats and dogs" didn't hit the minimum word count.

Opened a ticket on Genshin Impact requesting the ability to pet the cats and dogs.

Unloaded another couple thousand pounds of coffee today. 2 trucks delivered that this morning.

Got some time on the lab roaster today to try out an idea for what might be this year's Holiday Blend coffee. Will do some tasting tomorrow.

Officially sold out of the competition coffee. I still have some bagging leftovers available for brewing.

This would have been better if the tasks matched the quest description. #AtelierShallie

Thinking I might want to just order a pizza tonight instead of cooking.

In other coffee news, I'm down to my last half pound of the competition coffee for whoever comes in and grabs that first. I'll probably bring in a different limited edition offering in early November. I'm also working on figuring out what this year's Holiday Blend is going to be and hope to have that out for sale soon.

Ordered more coffee. Some is just direct replacements of coffees already in the product line, but there are some changes coming. We're going to let ourselves run out of decaf Mexican coffee, replacing that with a nice decaf Brazilian coffee. The next lot of coffee from Java won't be a peaberry. Kenya AB will be replaced in the line with a Tanzanian peaberry.

That's exactly how I ended up living with a cat.

September was the best month yet for online sales. That works out to about an extra day of sales, so not huge, but worth doing.

Front yard cat is back.

Definitely my least expensive car repair.

Successfully performed auto repair. One of the bolts holding my rear license plate was missing this morning, but an employee at the hardware store was able to find a close enough match.

My phone is ringing a lot today, but it's all from numbers that I don't recognize so I'm hitting ignore and none of them are leaving voicemail. I'm assuming it's political spam (I've already decided how I'm voting, all a phone call will accomplish is annoying me, please stop).