Being a little more serious, I'm pleased so far with some of the progress made at Aroma on starting to get the production bottlenecks eased. Jerry's quite excited and it's not usual to hear him say, "I wish I didn't have to do this airshow so I could spend more time in the lab getting these things worked out!"
I've previously posted about getting production ramped up, and it's a bit of a stepwise process. I'll have a talk with Jerry and we'll typically focus on a particular step in the process. I'll bore him with a lot of chemistry related to how I think a step should work and why, and then I have to wait patiently while Jerry actually carries out the actual testing of the particular process step we're looking at. Sometimes things go right to plan, other times Jerry calls to tell me something isn't quite right or something unexpected happened, and we go on to troubleshoot until we get it nailed down. I'd say we're better than halfway through the entire process, and once Jerry is back in the lab, things should progress well (or I shall whip him!)
One aspect of WTA that I've been working on with Jerry is minimizing the difference between WTA as I make it on a very small scale and the WTA that Jerry produces on a larger scale. Since I produce very small "handmade" amounts of WTA, I'm able to "craft" the stuff in a very exacting manner and produce WTA that leaves the few people who have tried it gobsmacked. On a production scale, it's not so easy to get that same "handmade" precision. It's our goal to work into the Aroma processing the same exacting approach, but on a production scale. Jerry makes a pretty good WTA, but it can be better still.
Snork, that's a lot of hard work you're tasting there in that 24 mg WTA.