Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

New coffee is up on the web site now.

Trying the production test batch of the new coffee from Bali. I decided to stop this one right at the start of 2nd crack, but to push the roast to that point a little faster than on the initial product development evaluation. This helped bring the overall intensity up a bit while still being super smooth with nice floral and fruit notes. It's a somewhat weird and wonderful coffee. Some customers have also had a chance to try it and I've got some pre-orders for tomorrow based on that.

My mother is happy to see that the cat is consenting to being pet faster on this visit, but kind of jealous that the cat still prefers to sit on me when I'm there. Meanwhile, my house is still without electricity. The guy working on that tried hooking a generator up to the furnace to get that up and running at least, but couldn't get it to fire up.

It's going to be a while before I have power at my house so I've removed the frozen food from my freezer and will be taking that to my Mom's house as well. I'd already taken care of the stuff in the fridge section. Probably should have done that earlier in the day.

If it weren't for the fact that I brought this in as a limited edition coffee and just don't have enough to sell any of it as green, I'd recommend it to my home roasting customers as something where you can take your best guess for the roast level you generally like and you'll probably end up with something delightful.

Narrowing things down a bit, cup 1 seems quite nice as a light roast. Cups 5-7 are a bit more approachable in more of a medium roast, and I don't think I'd want to go darker than cups 12-13 if I decided to do a dark roast.

It's rather nice across the entire range (even the lightest and darkest cups) with nothing coming out as particularly objectionable. I probably want to push the overall roast timing a bit faster to boost the intensity a bit, but the pick here will really be about deciding where the balance is nicest.

After some delays, I'm finally tasting the new coffee from Bali. The lot I'm working with is a bit of an oddball, so I pulled 15 cups ranging from what I consider my generally lightest palatable roast through to not quite the darkest thing I have on the shelf.

This'll be, I think, the fourth replacement network cable running to my house in the past year. Kind of sick of the neighbor's trees attacking me and wish I knew what I'd done that was so offensive to them.

Probably won't have power properly restored tonight, but I've got a guy working on the repairs that need to happen on my side of things before the power company will come back and hook that up, but he's going to plug the furnace into a generator and get the house heated up tonight. I've already taken the cat and a suitcase to Mom's house and I can crash there until I have power back on properly. Then I'll have to get the Internet cable put back in.

Had a phone call with the contractor. I'll have to head home and take some photos now that it's light out and I'll want to see what's going on with the electrical. Pretty sure it's safe to go back there now.

Power is still out, house was getting pretty cold so I've packed up the cat and taken her to Mom's house where she's now sitting on a couch.

Lack of power/Internet didn't stop me from finishing up some proof of concept code I've been working on. One of my test cases has a weird result that I'll need to dig into to figure out the right way to clean up, but I don't think I have enough battery remaining to figure that out.

This tree came from the same property that was previously uninhabitable because a different tree wiped out the back of the house. Their landlord should really just get rid of the trees since they keep attacking.

And now the power is out.

And I'll need an electrician when they're done. That'll probably be expensive. Also fence repairs.

And now the power company will be cutting my power to do repairs.

Internet is down again. Next door neighbor's tree is now across my entire backyard which fire fighters have said I should stay out of downed power lines. Both sides neighbors don't have power. but somehow my electric is fine.

New coffee to taste tomorrow.

Cat wants yogurt.