Why does "office coffee" have to be so bad? It is absolutely dreadful.
I've tried bringing in some fresh roasted coffee in the past and brewing it to the right strength but all I get is complaints that it's too strong. "Wow, that's STRONG coffee." So I've just given up.
Now I brew one cup at a time with a Melitta pour-over. Saves coffee for me and doesn't go to waste. This method works very well.
Thankfully F1 returned to racing today with a nail bitter of a race as Fernando held on to win the San Marino GP. It was a very exciting race.
Last week was very busy so I did not have much time to post. Today during the race I had a cappucino that was very disappointing. I was using some Millstone Equal Exchange Rainforest Blend (I know, blech) but it makes very good drip coffee. Unfortunately that does not seem to translate well to espresso.
We finally had some really nice weather over the weekend. Took the opportunity to roast some new beans., Guatemalean which I took to a nice full full-city roast.
Tried it neat but did not really care for it. Blended with some Equal Exchange French Roast and that made a much better blend.
Not really satistfied with the beans from CCM Coffee in Florida. I think I'm going back to Sweet Maria's even though the bean cost more there.
Today’s rant
1. I can’t understand why the cell phone industry isn’t the most profitable industry since the beginning of time. Almost every woman I see driving has one stapled to their ear.
2. I love the new M3 but know that I would hate every person driving one, starting with the 25-year old fake blondes.
3. I just don’t get the H2. Every person driving one looks like an idiot.
I lost it at the local supermarket on Sunday. Zack Shitbird was bagging my groceries when Brittany the 21-year old fake blonde future M3 driver manning the checkout lane next to mine asks Zack to run and get a carton of smokes for the person in that lane. Zack wanting to get in her pants dutifully complies and runs off to get the Newport Ultra Low Menthol 100s hard pack. So I start bagging my own groceries, which I usually don’t mind. But when Zack returns, he starts pretending to bag the stuff in her lane (the guy buying the smokes had about 5 things – smokes, Doritos, Twinkies, 6-pack of Coke, and something healthy – beef jerky) instead of returning to my lane because my cashier, Wendy, is not nearly as cute and is 20 years older than Brittany. So now he is just standing there shooting the shit with Brittany and Tyler Shitbird, the other bagger doing nothing.
Could not restrain myself any longer. I let Mary Jane, the supervising cashier, have it. It just irritates the hell out of me that men are always expected to bag their own groceries. Now I could understand if there were no baggers, but there were two perfectly healthy troglodytes standing next to me that should have been bagging my groceries instead of trying to get into
I’m officially an old man. I know that I’ll pay for this with smashed bread and broken eggs.
Haven't posted for a couple of days. Just have not had the time.
My oldest had the first soccer practice today. The teams get different colors jerseys every year. His is purple this year, for some reason I thought he would get that color this year and he did.
Grabbed an Americano before we headed out to go bowling with the Cub Scouts. I'm the Den Leader so we had to be early. Followed bowling with pizza. There is the one kid in the den that is so incredibly overweight. He poudned down 4 slices and would have had 5 if there were any left. The Den had a good time bowling as did I.
When we got home my wife was in a very bad mood - she was fried after being stuck with the youngest two for a few hours.
Today was a bad coffee day. Only one cup this morning as the rest of the day was too busy to grab another cup.
I've been on anti-biotics for the past 9 days due to a sinus infection. Don't know what is going on but they still hurt and have been draining like mad. I hope this passes soon.
Today was a beautiful day, one of the first truly nice of spring.
Fortunately, a few things went better today than yesterday. Most of the equipment worked but I'm still worried about things.
Tonight I fired up the espresso machine when I got home and made an Americano. Used the same blend of home roasted Columbian and Starbucks Yukon Blend. Makes a very nice espresso, good crema, nice body.
A project that I designed is finally nearing completion. Unfortunately, things are not going well and there are many problems. As an engineer, this should be the time that you enjoy most - seeing something that you designed being placed into service, unfortunately it never seems to be that way.
Hopefully things will go better tomorrow but I doubt it.
Thought that I would start blogging today since everyone else seems to be. Other than my wife, kids, and golf, coffee is what I enjoy most. Today I was brewed a combination of some home-roasted Columbian with some Yukon Blend from Starbucks. It was great. I used the Blend because I wasn't really happy with the taste of the Columbian by itself.
I was in good shape as the day started today, everything was lining up to win the bracket pool at the office. Then Louisville screwed me. Just wanted to win, now I'm out of the money totally.
We had biblical rain today.
