Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Had to fire a supplier. I was expecting a couple shipments from them, but after I'd already paid for the first one the owner of the company informed me of a change in payment terms which is really the sort of thing that needs to be disclosed either before sending out contracts or in the contract. Their new terms are unacceptable to me and they weren't willing to make an exception to honor the original deal so I'm not getting the other shipment. A shame as the coffee would have been excellent.

Cat is snoring,

Was doing some post-holiday roaster maintenance and I found shockingly little chaff in the cyclone of the lab roaster (I use this for product development and sometimes as a sample roaster if I want to do that myself instead of just pushing a button on the automated machine). It could just be that someone else cleaned that out and didn't mention it but I'll have to find some time to look into that.

Very festive.

Someone liked my photo of this glitchy photobomb sprite. If I moved the camera up or down, the sprite also went up or down, even if that meant clipping its body through the ground like this.

Had to go grocery shopping again because nobody thought to inform me I was responsible for a couple desserts before my previous shopping trip and I want to have something more reliable than hoping customers don't buy the shop's holiday cookies (I'd rather sell them).

Made a big bowl of spicy chicken with rice.

cat

Installed extra RAM in my sister's new computer. Hers came with the SSD retaining screw on the unpopulated slot that mine was missing so I didn't have to give her one of my spares.

The five cups are all the same thing for this kind of cupping as that allows a uniformity score (do these all taste the same? If not, how many cups are different from the others?) and it gives a better chance of detecting if there are defects.

This one is pretty straightforward. I have an arrival sample on a coffee previously sold to me against a type sample and I'm just approving that yes, this is a close enough match to the type (the arrival sample is actually a little better than the type sample it was sold against).

I have a bunch of cupping spoons that the shop has purchased, but I never use them. Instead I use spoons that other people in the industry have given me over the decades.

More cupping.

There weren't a lot of people at the Aldi while I was there but apparently we all wanted eggs. I don't think I've ever waited in such a long egg line before.

The time is 2:26AM and the cat is requesting chin scritches.

UPS still thinks they're delivering my sister's computer on Wednesday, but it's close enough now that I wouldn't be surprised if it showed up tomorrow. I have everything at the shop already to upgrade that as soon as it arrives and she'll probably want to feed me a pizza after work while I help her get things set up software side.

Today's sensory work is a little more varied. Still some coffee tasting because someone labeled a bag in a way that cannot possibly be true (not customer facing) but also some egg nog tasting because stores in the area are not stocking enough egg nog.

Got the new coffees on the shop's web site along with holiday hours. Apologies to anybody who may be trying to reach me by email on my personal account. I haven't had the time to look at that for a few days now, but hopefully I'll be able to catch up on that over the weekend.

It seems that all my Texas customers are getting in their orders now. All the boxes I'm sending today and all the boxes from the previous 1-2 shipping days have all been going to Texas. Kind of wish someone would open a shop with my stuff in Austin so I could save these people some shipping (especially the people having me send chai concentrate which is crazy expensive to ship).