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Stardate: 20220106.1348 | |
Location: Living Room | |
Input Device: AlphaSmart dana.wireless | |
Software: Alphaword | |
Audio: Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (side two) | |
Visual: Living room with holiday decor and various musical instruments. | |
Emotional State: Content +5pts coffee booster | |
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I am typing this on the dana.wireless by AlphaSmart right now. I had | |
to reset the clock since this device becomes amnesiatic when it runs | |
out of power. The reset date was 01/01/2000. dana is 22. She | |
doesn't seem that way to me and she certainly doesn't look it! | |
Happy Belated Birthday, dana! Wishing you many more years of | |
ruminating with me to come! | |
This morning I cleaned my coffee grinder. It is a Mr. Coffee burr | |
grinder that has bins for the input and output, degree of coarseness | |
settings and auto shutoff for how many cups you want to grind for. | |
It's good enough. Last time I cleaned it was quite some time ago. | |
There was much coffee dust and oils caked into the damn thing, so I | |
cleaned her out real good. It is important to keep the coffee | |
crafting hardware clean. | |
The maintenance task took me back to a time when I was quite fixated | |
on the methods of preparation and the various hardware and | |
paraphernalia involved with crafting a "perfect" cup of coffee. The | |
espresso machines, auto drip makers, milk frothers, DIY coffee | |
roasters, percolators, manual hand grinders, gravity bong chemistry | |
sets, etc. Also, the type of roast and the region the beans come | |
from. Or even the digestive tract of a mongoose that the coffee | |
cherries passed through! Now that there was a sh!tty cup of coffee!!! | |
I was a "barista" in a former life, before they were even calling them | |
"baristas." I worked for a local coffee roaster when I was in college | |
and learned about the art of coffee and crafting numerous coffee | |
beverages. This vocation helped further my journey as a chronic | |
coffee drinker. I think I would consider myself a lifer, unless I | |
am told otherwise by the doctor. | |
These days, I usually drink a 12 cup pot of freshly ground, auto | |
drip coffee. Some days I don't have coffee at all. Sometimes I | |
switch to tea. | |
For me, the "perfect" cup of coffee is the one that tastes good to | |
me. There are various tricks of the trade and can be guides to | |
figuring out what tastes good, but what really matters is that I | |
enjoy my damn good cup of coffee! | |
PRO TIP: To clean out oils from your grinder, especially if | |
flavored coffee was ground, grind plain Rice Krispies cereal through | |
the grinder. This should help absorb the oils and remove the taste | |
of previous grounds. | |
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