Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Picked out what I'm going to try to replicate. Once the coffee was cooled, the darkest roast I tested turned out to be quite delightful, but also very much not what I want to sell this coffee as. In the medium roast range I found a couple cups that had some interesting spiciness going on. But what held up best overall and is a good match for the flavor profile I intended to get out of the coffee was something on the darker side of a light roast where I'm getting fruitiness with good intensity.

Working on figuring out how I want to roast my latest Ethiopian coffee arrival. Dry fragrance is exceptional and in line with the sample I evaluated before buying it. Expected to go for something in the light to medium range and fragrance is suggesting the light side is where I want to go with this, but of course I want to choose after tasting since I'm not trying to sell this as an air freshener.

Got a box of pants delivered. Hope they fit. I tried to buy those locally some place where I could try them on first, but the selection was extremely picked over and my options were either hideous or doesn't fit. Fortunately I pretty much stopped changing shape decades ago and I'm a guy so odds are good on fit.

The cat is talkative tonight. She also really likes the plastic wrap that used to be around a stack of veggie crackers.

Mailing list for my book has nearly doubled in size since the last update went out. I should really get that finished so people can buy it.

Spent some more time working on the Typica rewrite. Enough of the UI elements that are getting a redesign are now easier to read at smaller sizes (I've needed to tweak some design ideas because it's very important to me that I can rapidly scan the state of the system) which in turn opens up space that can be used for new features.

New Ethiopian coffee is expected to arrive this week. After that I'm expecting a delivery of coffee from Guatemala. The Guatemalan coffee isn't a new thing, just more to make sure I don't run out. Coffee from Sulawesi is on the shelf but not yet up on the web site.

Hot breakfast prepared. Still no Internet.

Electricity is back on. Good timing as the cat was starting to decide the house was too cold and I was thinking a hot breakfast might be nice.

It's morning. Still no power, cause of outage still not determined.

Still no power.

The nearest mark with a cause identified says "tree" and also says the crew sent to fix it can't.

According to the earlier text, I should have wired Internet again, but given the lack of electricity I wouldn't know if that's available again.

It looks like the cat is completely uninterested in investigating the candles. This is good.

Time for candles. My matches aren't lighting, but the burner on my siphon pot works.

Checked the power company web site. Latest update on the power outage is that they don't know why the power is out and nobody is looking into it.

I'm trying to reassure the cat that everything is fine. She's either not convinced or just pretending to get extra cuddles.

No notice from the power company itself, of course.

Just got a text letting me know my wired Internet is having an outage, so I'm guessing the current power outage is affecting that as well. They're guessing it'll be a couple hours to come back.