coming out here i had a feeling... good thing i've more or less had an emotional detachment from the vehicle lately 'cause of all the commuting by bike...
crash boom bang... a very minor one... nearly avoided... not quite though... if the roads were dry... no problem... damn wet ones... and a suprise my normally quick RT was unable to save the bacon...
and i'm a wreck... my car's fine - missing the front plate... but no big deal... might need a new bumper... dunno though - but i did the right thing - called all the 'officials' got a report, started the claim stuff... i hope it doesn't wind up kickin me in the nuts... but being sick, getting in a wreck, dealing with all the extra stuff just isn't what i had planned on doing.
kinda funny though - a friend of mine had roughly the same thing happen... except she couldn't stop in time and completely T-boned the other car - air bags went off - nightmare city... at least that didn't happen and my lungs aren't trying to deal with getting the airbag dust out of them as well as this yuck...
the coffee thing... this morning i couldn't even finish the french press... got about 1/2 through and said - themos time... gonna spread the wealth through out the day... kinda funny, this weekend i stocked up on a different variety cause we had visitors who aren't as into the HD French Roast experience... so now i've got about 1/2 bag of the French Roast 365 branded stuff... and most of a bag of the Morning Buzz blend... which i bought cause it looked a bit less roasted... and it is... but it still isn't light roast - fortunately for me... but i've got a tone of the bean needing to be consumed right at the time i'm cutting raw grounds/bean consumption in 1/2. I should also mention i've gone the gamut on coffee prep... grind your own, store grind, burr grinder, whirr grinder... drip espresso, press in big, small, glass, stainless... freeze the beans fridge the beans, and have decided that based on all my reading of the Starbucks, SBC, Tulley's, Austin Chase, Beaners, Espresso Royal, books, manuals, online accounting filtered through a festidious scientific approach:
#1 you cannot grind at home as well as the store grinders can do it and grinding coffee is the most critical part of the experience if you assume a few other things like
#2 storage, room temp in an air tight container. Freezer and fridge are okay for over a month or more IF you keep it perfectly sealed AND you don't even think about opening the package upon removal of the fridge/freezer until the beans have come to temp. DON'T EVEN THINK about storing ground coffee for any period of time
#3 water, good clean preferably distilled water is the best - what is coffee? hot flavored water, if your water is funky - the coffee will never be good.
#4 brewing method here is where there is some major difference and its more opinion and convenience than the above. Assuming you have good well ground beans that have been stored properly and good water... it doesn't really matter if you perk, press or drip brew the coffee, it'll be good.
#5 additives, this is me - gimme the coffee black - i wanna taste it, not taste a sweetened milky beverage, if i want milk in the coffee i'll make espresso and have a cap or a latte with extra foam with a bit of raw sugar (smoother IMNSHO than the white stuff).
simple really, and yes lighter roasted columbian coffee IS higher in caffine than the darker Roasts like French and such, but ya know... i'm not all that concerned, as long as i get just enough to quell the headache and make my taste buds happy... And seenin as coffee is now a GOOD thing, anti-oxidants, mild heart benefits i'm pretty happy with it as an addiction.
and in case anyone was wondering Coffee is native to the Africa, not south america. Some culture stomping missionaries carried it over way back along time ago, along with all their diseases and religion... i've got a nice blurb i dug up a while ago... but the nasal induced brain fog is clouding my memory and it'll take a while to get it up.
Ahh and thinking about coffee has sedated my nerves and anguish over that fender bender stuff - well it did until i just mentioned it...
emotions, a roller coaster that ehances out everyday life... as much of a burden as it is i will gladly embrace the over abundance of emotions i feel and the intensity, it could be a far worse life to live without this passion and emotional intensity...
and to think, some how its all connected to the expression of DNA, all explainable with biochemistry and molecular biology... pretty damn freaking cool!
till later, as the chapel is now open for music rehersals
-G
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