Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

One of the manufacturers set their machine on fire while it was empty. #oops No big deal. Well contained.

Hanging out with the roasters.

Class coffees

Coffee #4, caffe mocha with a nice design on top immediately hidden by a lid.

Coffee #3, a very nice Colombian coffee. Probably the lightest roast of this trip to date.

Coffee #2, double espresso.

Hotel room coffee is sadness.

@neal hotel forgot to call

wondering if my room still isn't ready or if the hotel forgot to call me

Took a walk around to reorient myself to the city. Is nice/weird to just randomly run into other coffee people who want to talk with me. No other roasters in Racine.

fish food

Drink more coffee: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/why-introverts-should-drink-more-coffee.html

Event is in Boston next year. Hope they've figured out how to get roasters approved this time around. Last time it was there we could only get approval for electric sample roasters, limiting the classes that could be offered. Then again, there are a lot of options now that didn't exist back then. The right instructor (not sure they exist) could do something interesting with that.

Have been informed that my badge is color coded so I can go where I need to without messing around with access wrist bands.

Coffee #2, cappuccino. Checked out the roasting area. Mostly not set up yet, but it's not supposed to be. Printouts for my class look good.

Found a nice coffee from Burundi and an apple thing. Received my first business card of this trip after a chat about how retreat is shaping up.

As expected, the room isn't ready but I did get an upgrade. Picked up badge. Next, coffee.

My sister has sent proof of life for the cat. Says she was talkative at 1:30am.

It looks like TSA stole my buisiness cards. I'll miss the case they were in. It was a gift.

Waiting for checked bag. Have already been recognized.