Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Made an aeropress of the next limited edition coffee. It's been a long time since I've used that brewing method, but this is a coffee that's well suited for that device.

Will I be able to refine my Qiqi build enough to get her to deal >200K damage? https://www.hoyolab.com/genshin/article/286527

I set a new personal best for single target damage with Qiqi in #GenshinImpact

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https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/add405d5-747c-4870-b912-7c73159a482a

Saw a ball in my back yard and also saw kids in neighboring yards so I went out to return the ball to whichever group of kids it belonged to. I guess times are different now but when I was their age I'd've just jumped the fence and gotten my ball back.

I found what I want to do with the coffee with a cup that's just a tiny bit lighter than one of the cups from the first attempt. If this holds into a production test roast, the coffee is sugary sweet (as in, if you get a cup of the black coffee you could be forgiven for thinking that someone stirred a packet of sugar into the cup), nicely balanced, greater intensity than cups in the first attempt.

Continuing to work on a new coffee. The first batch was my usual do whatever, pull a dozen cups out at different roast levels, and taste how the coffee performs as it progresses through the roast. In that I identified a range of four cups in the middle where I thought the coffee was at its best, but it seemed like I could do better so for the second batch I changed the timing on the roast and pulled 10 cups that covered the range of 4 from the first batch.

Got a reply back about the mystery soy sauce. They don't want it back so we're going to contact the food bank and see if they know anybody who might want it. I wouldn't be surprised if they said no, but we'll try.

Someone called my #GenshinImpact character tier list "objective truth".

On the way home from work today I saw an oncoming vehicle going about 20mph over the speed limit with a big hyper dog climbing up above the driver's shoulders. That was scary and I hope they got where they were going without killing someone in a car wreck.

Still no reply about whether they want the soy sauce back. I don't think I've ever had soy sauce in a coffee before. Soy sauce latte? The stuff is in 6ml packets so I'd rather not subject my staff to needing to open a bunch of those.

Today's delivery is part 2 of an order that partially arrived yesterday. I got everything that was on the order, but also a case of "less sodium" soy sauce packets which I certainly would not have ordered.

There were three samples. The first was not a bad coffee, just one with an extremely common flavor profile. I can get something equivalent from pretty much anybody selling coffee from that country. The second had quite a few red flags that warn me away from it. It's the sort of coffee that less experienced tasters might think are really good when evaluating a sample but then discover it's kind of nasty in production. The third one lacked dry fragrance, but everything else was fantastic.

Last night I sent an email to someone who sent me some coffee samples. Oddly, the reply didn't come with a sales pitch for the one coffee that I said was exceptionally good. I took a while to bother running the samples through the roaster on account of the prevalence of physical defects on the coffees I enjoyed less so maybe they already sold it all (plus it's not like I asked about pricing and such since I already work with too many suppliers, which I mentioned before he sent the samples).

How did I not notice that weird touhou racing game got a US Playstation release?

me: *trying to sort through today's mail*
cat (screaming): WHY ARE YOU NOT HUGGING THE CAT RIGHT NOW!?

(she calms down once she's had some hugs time)

I found what the cat did.

I asked the cat if she was good while I was at work and she answered no, so now I need to figure out what she did.

Someone is trying to make a coffee delivery. Hopefully they're able to navigate the road construction that their GPS wanted to send them through. (I suggested a better route, but they weren't able to find the streets on their map so...)