Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got back a nice info dump in preparation for the next class I'm teaching. Assuming I get all the supplies I want I'm looking at doing 4 little coffee tastings throughout the class. One with 5 coffees, three with 3, but it's all the same coffee just roasted in specific different ways.

Video of this morning's run: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/e3246e2a-de75-47d9-87fd-e63f0e4c95b0

It's still about 100K lower than the biggest Qiqi hit I'm aware of, but this morning I set a new personal best in single target Qiqi damage. That's as far as I'm going to be able to push things without either a different combo setup or better artifacts so I think I'll be taking a break from cryo burst Qiqi and going back to my preferred physical build. Of course, my old best hit 3 targets so combined damage was higher there. #GenshinImpact

If I receive a phone call from an automated dialing machine with a recording that kind of sounds like a computer synthesized voice claiming to be an officer, can I say I hung up on robocop?

The cat is on patrol.

How do we all feel about cats tonight?

That hit for just under 283K used food. This hit for just over 291K did not. In other words, I just need to replicate this with food buffs to set a new personal best for single target Qiqi damage. But I'm mostly out of meat and fish so I'll keep play testing some options and see if I can get something better or close enough with easier execution requirements.

28 fragile resin worth of artifacts later... Still not pyro Qiqi level, but pretty good. #GenshinImpact

Having a tub of clearance ice cream. Hard to get the spoon in.

Finally getting around to working on a cryo burst Qiqi. As a baseline, this is still with her physical build and missing a lot of buffs that the full combo will have. If I can multiply that by 3, I'll have a new personal best. Better than that and I might re-take my world record. I feel like that might be possible.

Test batches of the new coffee from El Salvador turned out nicely. Both medium and dark roasts are a little lighter than the last time I had this coffee and the dark roast is going to be the lightest thing that I'm still calling a dark roast, so that might be a good option for people who want to try something darker than my medium roasts but don't want something super dark. When the dark roast is fully cooled it's reminiscent of a nice lapsang souchong.

It'll be nice when it's put back together.

Half of the sidewalk in front of my shop is now gone. I expect this will pretty well kill off sales for the rest of the day since the sidewalk removal machines are still working.

Noticed and fixed a bug. The bug had not been deployed anywhere.

New coffee

Two days in a row with a phone call to my personal number that I bothered to answer. Today's was someone with an association that I was expecting money from and they wanted to clarify how to write the check. Yesterday's was from another person who roasts coffee on a much larger scale than I do just to talk shop for the most part, but also because he's helping me teach a class soon.

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Above written by the cat. I think she just likes to hear the keys click.

Okay, change of plans, coffees from Costa Rica and Guatemala just got delivered so Guatemalan coffees should be back on the shelf tomorrow and Costa Rican coffees not too far behind.