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I don’t know what I’ll be doing, but I gotta get up early in the morning and you can bet I’ll make coffee. It’s not a Decent, but I have decided that my worthless dining room table can maybe be something else. Anybody who wants to come over can have a shot: I can pull a few in a row. Assume I have a kettle. Everything will be covered in cat hair by the morning

Had a re-do of impressions for a dental implant. They did it four times. I guess I’m just a difficult mouth. Probably because I don’t stop fucking talking.

Two bags of beans (thank you, Covered_Ears for the Cyimbili: I can smell it through the valve!) and a funnel for my Orphan grinders? My new Bottomeless porta is supposed to arrive today, too. A good coffee day. I might even make coffee tomorrow.

NAIM MuSo2 makes a good sound adjutant, just saying.

A blinded (I think it has been attacked by something) 6 week or so old stray tuxedo kitten found itself on my patio. Currently at the SPCA getting medical treatment. I guess my good deed for the year. I have the cat’s number, so I can keep track of progress.

The Orphan Lido OG is a serious piece of kit. In a lot of ways the exact opposite design of the Option-O, but they are both going for the precisely same thing. I’m looking forward to dialing in.

First drink pulled off the refurbished machine. I went WAY too coarse, but that was my fault: it’s because I’ve gotten used to manual espresso. Oat milk, so any “art” was accidental. But I got decent stretch. The Option-O grinder will take me as fine as I want to go, down to “this won’t work for even Turkish.” I went a bit finer than I do for the Flair. Should have gone a bit more. I managed to make a fast lungo (I don’t want to make a lungo fast if I can help it!). it was drinkable. A run of the mill “if a random coffee shop handed this to me in a paper cup I would be fine with it” latte. Will be better tomorrow.

You make it very hard, you know.

I’ll happily send you a bag of this, but I won’t likely go to the shop again for another week or so (roast day is Tuesday and Friday anyway).

It made for a very good pour-over. I should have ground a little finer, but I’ll know for next time. Breezy and bright and tangy but definitely with some distinct berry.

I had a shot of this today: I have known the roaster for two decades. He said it was good (shot was from beans roasted a couple weeks ago). It was an excellent shot. Bright, acidic, had a backbone. What I have is way too fresh for espresso, but I’ll find out how it is for pour-over tomorrow. Very light roast, but I’m sure I can manage!

Fancy coffee (and fancy kitty litter) purchased. Coffee roasted on August 26th. No idea when the cat litter was made.

That was it!: Trinity Sessions. I just couldn’t remember the title (too many albums in my brain list). I will listen to the other albums you listed. Thanks Jim!

Sure I am! Holding back on electricity…

Heather (my partner) and I are seeing Cowboy Junkies in an intimate space in October, here I’m Cinci. I know the one album: Jim sent it to me during one of the gift exchanges. But what should I listen to other than that? We are both fully, fully vaxxed and we will be wearing good masks. I dunno if this is the right thread.

I just ordered a Lido OG with 53mm funnel. I'll report back from my way too many manual grinders.

I would def look at an OLED. My 60” Samsung (first ex-wife has my Panasonic 42” from like 2008) plasma is coming up on 9 years old. Still going strong, but I’ll likely buy whatever OLED in the size range that is cheapest, if it goes. I still don’t think OLED looks as good as plasma at a given resolution and calibration; but it’s close. You really don’t have much of a choice unless you want to get something you’ll hate. If the display itself is capable of what you want then I really think calibration is more important than any other aspect. Guests are still blown away by this nearly 10 year old TV, and it’s just because I calibrated it (I had access to a good spider at the time).

Had to go to my storage unit anyway, so I grabbed my old Breville 830xl. Apparently I put it away wet, or maybe it was dripped on for two years. I have it cleaned up as best I can, and it works great after pushing a couple liters of water through. It’s not quite as good as a Gaggia classic (it’s just a 54mm thermoblock, afterall), but I think it’ll work fine at my partner’s place, if the Encore with M2 burr upgrade and recalibration works okay (she’ll never use it so it won’t matter).

Replacement Flair Royal arrived (doesn’t have the slip issue; it was apparently a washer that was not the correct thickness, which doesn’t give me a lot of confidence for longevity). Option-O Remi with contemporary burrs, slightly modified to suit my needs. Orphan Espresso Lido ET here soon. If anybody wants a comparison of three higher end hand grinders, I would be happy to (I’ve had a Commandante, but it was the second version: I’m sure I remember it fairly well). The modded Option-O Remi (minor mods were just for ergonomics for me in particular, and don’t affect grind at all) is dialed in, and produces incredibly good coffee (the even fluff!!) for pour-over and manual espresso. I’ll dial in the other two first before comparing, as I’m not an asshole, but I’m sure I’m biased towards the Option-O. I’m traveling soon, a few weeks from now, and I will take all three in their travel cases with my Flair Pro2 (V60 is already there, where I will end up). I might drop off a Breville thermoblock machine too (think Gaggia classic-ish), so I would test a variety of grinds.

I bought the green Omega strap as a gag, basically: I love it, though. I feel like I’m on a sailboat.

I have an APR stage one* flash on the Tiguan. It would beat the snot out of this “sportline” at a stoplight, and I can also figure out how to adjust the climate control in it. *not gonna go further on a car that sometimes has a booster seat. Also it’s a Tiguan.

They have gone back to stepped dials. My 1861 doesn’t have that (pre-moon obviously does). Exact same dimensions, more or less, but it has a certain subjective effect. I dunno if you can see the difference in this pic. The new version is marginally thinner, too. The stepped dial breaks up the monolith of dial Anyway: All Speedy Pros wear like a 40mm Rolex. The big non-pros, which I don’t have experience with, probably wear bigger (since they are bigger).

I’ll be wearing a bright watch too, when G gets his Parchie Pal School Time in green and teal. Planned birthday is a pool party (end of the season). Maybe I should swap the pre-moon for the 1861, but the pre-moon passed it’s tests under a year ago. 8 is a big birthday, and I’ll know.

Does anybody else not give a flying fuck that it sounds “artificial?” I’ve had Max for a while (and I adore them), but my shitty Ankers that I used for exercise gave up the ghost (they were good enough until they didn’t work anymore), so I bought a pair of AirPods Pro (my backup “Letscom” weren’t doing it for me). This pair had the non-spatial firmware out of the box. Took a day for it to update (Apple seriously needs to fix the firmware update situation). Spatial on the Pro sounds nothing like “natural.” It sounds fucking great on the Esther Phillips I’m currently listening to, though. I could listen to my JH on the go, but then I have to deal with a cable, and what not, and I don’t even know if they would sound better. They would sound more “natural,” though, I’m sure. This isn’t even the future.

My poor old 2017 Tiguan got hit at night in a hit and run a few weeks ago. It creased the fillets and crushed chunks into the “character lines.” I finally got high enough up on the food chain to get the fix that should have been done to begin with started. During the first work they had me in an Atlas. Huge, but really a joy to drive, once you got used to how big it is (and you learn to avoid the circumstances where lane assist tries to kill you). Once I move I might get one, since whatever you call the son of your partner is gonna need soccer shit ferried back and forth, or whatever (he should be my “step son,” by then, but North Carolina courts don’t give a shit about putting a final imprimatur on divorce papers). This time they have me in a 2020 Sportsline 530. I’ve never driven a more underpowered barge with “sport” in the name. It’s also so complicated to run in the cabin that I wish I were dealing with somebody else's regular expressions in Perl. There is a reason I bought a 2017 Tiguan instead of the 2018 when I traded in sporty for practical At least it’s pretty.