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It’s barely after noon, and my sleep has been fragmented due to a trip, so a 30 gram to 200 ice to 300 boiling of some very nice coffee. Ground finer than you might think.

That was the one for my partner. She loved it and was delighted by the whole experience of opening it and putting it on. The one for her son hopefully elicits a similar response.

I called the vet and the determination is that as long as he doesn’t seem to be in discomfort he is fine.

Parchie Pal.

Getting ready for a trip tomorrow. That wine carrier will have 4 bottles. I don’t have the beer cooler fitted out yet.

Today’s wrist check: GRUT with CF strap. Let’s see if it gives me a rash today (I’ve soaked it in alcohol, let it dry and out-gas, and sealed the backside of it with resolene).

Dunhill has broken a tooth. The tip of a canine. He has always had prominent canines (one of his nicknames is “snags”). He has had to have teeth pulled, and he was just seen by the vet a couple weeks ago for shots and a checkup. This clearly happened since then. He HATES the vet. I’m reluctant to drag his ass into the car, especially since he and Silver will be going with me to North Carolina in September when we spend a month with my partner. But I haven’t had a cat snap a fang. I don’t think the pulp is even close to being exposed, and he doesn’t seem to be in distress or discomfort (he sure fucking eats likes normal). I don’t care what it costs to be looked at, I just would prefer to save him the trip for nothing, if it’s nothing. He hates traveling. I’m not the most experienced cat owner (I’ve only been lucky enough to share my space with 5, to this point).

I figured that if almost-8-year-old and almost-8-year-old’s mom are going to be wearing bright and colorful watches on bright NATO-ish straps, on his birthday (and green is almost-8-year-old’s favorite color, in various shades, which is part of why he gets the School-Time Parchie), it’s only fair for me to join in. And if I’m going to get a NATO for a lark I might as well get one that somebody will be wearing in 5 generations when the guzzolene is unavailable and people are eating lizards, hand to mouth, off the sand to survive. Should look good on a Speedy with a polo shirt once a year at the end of September. I have a plum and orange merino polo by Icebreaker that would be perfectly non-matching.

I guess it’s sort of late in the year, but first wear of a NATO for 2021.

I’d honestly been waiting for somebody else to give the watch to. Previous nieces and nephews: too young. Previous stepson: not his thing. This one? Jackpot. The new Parchie Pals, by Cara Barrett, formerly of HODINKEE, are super cool. Perfect for a child or just anybody who wants a colorful and inexpensive but functional and well designed (don’t know about build yet!) small casual watch.

No worries! And looking back, I think my reply came out as snippy. It wasn’t intended to be that way. My apologies! I don’t think there is really any extra capacity, though: Tudor watches are hard to get too. In new watch news: my partner’s son received my Lorus Mickey Mouse watch when he turned 7. It was the watch I wore when I was his age: I refurbished it. New strap, polished crystal, new gasket on the battery compartment, a light buff of the case. He had been fascinated by why I always had something on my wrist I looked at (not a watch family). He takes it off every night and puts it on every morning. Treats it like something precious. It is austere and elegant with a black case, black dial, and black alligator embossed strap. He has the dress watch for his collection resolved for the time being. He can even usually read the time reliably. He turns 8 soon. He’ll be getting a Switch and games, but I bet he’ll be just as excited by the School-Time Parchie he will also be getting. A fine young ruffian needs a rough and tumble dive watch that they can wear in puddles and pools and general mischief without worrying about it. 8 is a big one. His mother was jealous and she will be getting a Party-Time Parchie: maybe she’ll actually wear this one.

Are you tag on or tag off?

Naw: one has the cardboard tag on the neck and the other doesn’t.

I put 20.01 grams of beans in the Option-O (I weigh beans on a different scale than I brew). This is what I got out. It will have to do. Yes I know I’m on the autism spectrum (morning juice mix on the side while I wait for things to warm up).

Double post: internet being fucky.

N/A: can't delete the quote box for some reason. Just a bunch of bullshit that nobody cares about that happened to include a response to something Sam said (which I was agreeing with).

It’s a shake weight with a sieve. If it gets coffee dorks to exercise I’m all for it*. *almost certainly won’t make your coffee worse or better.

The Option-O Remi has some issues that piss me off, in human/machine interface design and just “what the fuck were you thinking?” design, but two things that don’t piss me off are grind quality and grounds retention. Those are, respectively, “impeccable” and “none to the error margin of my scales.*” Plus it’s a good bicep workout. I put 32.51 grams of beans in and got 32.5/49/51 grams of too fine (my fault) grounds out. Made a good cup after I adjusted my pour (I wasn’t gonna waste 32.51 grams of these beans**). *and I have good scales. **I was willing to waste the error-margin worth.

I think I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting an Option-O counter top grinder after I move and have room for an electric setup again. Grinds were exceptionally even and consistent. Keep in mind that I grind from frozen (after an off-gas period), which substantially improves median grain size, but even still: I’m impressed. P64 would look nice next to a Mara X in my partner’s basement. Best shot I’ve pulled from the Flair. As an aside: I completely disassembled the Remi this morning. My guess is the average person wouldn’t haven’t gotten it back together (there were parts of the reassembly that were a struggle until I figured out “the trick,” but these were also not parts interfaces that were ever meant to be end-user facing). I still think there is room for improvement, but I would say the same to Rolex about the watch on my left wrist and I would say the same to Apple about the watch on my right, so hey: sometimes things are just the things they are: everything is made to a price point. Highly recommended if you want a hand-grinder (at least with the contemporary burrs; I can’t speak to the conventionals).

Holy smokes the Option-O Remi is nice. I’ve run through a few ounces of the cheap beans I tend to keep (purchasable in 2 pound bags from Amazon!) specifically for dialing in grind. I’ve used cafe Mahlkoenig’s that didn’t grind this consistently. They did grind with less effort, admittedly… From a fit-and-finish and human interface design perspective there are improvements I could suggest. It would make a rather expensive and very low production hand-grinder into a very, very expensive and exceptionally low production hand-grinder, so I understand why the “corners” that were cut were cut. I like it a lot and I honestly don’t care* if the Flair Royal is returned fixed. *A lie.

They are going to fix the grinder. It should not have required this much effort, but I’m also looking forward to the Option-O, so I suppose it all works out.

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I'm having a small issue with the Flair Royal: the shaft/crown interface is switching when the torque of beans happens. I have contacted Flair, and I have instructions on how to fix the issue, but between my fingers not working and not having the tools on hand to do so, it is just not something I can do at the moment. I bought an Option-O Remi with the contemporary burr set. Will be interesting to compare with the Flair Royal (when it worked correctly, and it was excellent).

New scale and newish mirror play well together.

I don’t know, I never weighed him.