The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 04: Come On In

[TxRad]

Welcome to a fresh new Moanday.

The coffee is hot and fresh. Not to strong but not too weak.

Moving? "Nevermore," said Tex. I did way too much of that in my younger days.

MP, that let down feeling after a book has been set for release gets shorter and easier with time and more books.

75 degrees with 94% humidity. Never trust air you can't see. It is August so hot and humid is the norm. September will be here soon and we will get our three days of fall, hopefully.

 

[NotWise]

Here I am, sitting in the office and staring at the screen. I have two things to write. One is for money and one is for fun. Which do you suppose I'll get to first?

 

[Javahead]

Here I am, sitting in the office and staring at the screen. I have two things to write. One is for money and one is for fun. Which do you suppose I'll get to first?

Coffee. Then write. How tight is your deadline?

I try to be responsible. But given my druthers, I’d go for fun.

 

[Javahead]

The coffee is hot and fresh. Not to strong but not too weak.
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Moving? "Nevermore," said Tex. I did way too much of that in my younger days.

Thanks, Tex. Much appreciated.

Hopefully, Chloe will be able to stay put a while after this one. I hate moving, too. We’ve been in our current place over 20 years. It’d take something major to make us want to move ever again.

 

[NightSailor]

PS. A question about coffee.
Is the taste of the brew connected with the 'roast' or something else ?

The bean, the ripeness, the roast - or more accurately the equipment and how good the roast master is. THEN we have the grind and method preparation. I prefer French press - which sounds much more exciting than it actually is.

Lately I've been enjoying Sumatran and Indonesian coffees.

Now I'm thinking I need another cup - or two.

Hope you are all enjoying this day!

 

[oggbashan]

Coffee? I use Tesco's Gold Blend instant granules because now my taste buds cannot distinguish between that and a better coffee. I do know that very basic coffee powder tastes awful - nearly as bad as Camp liquid coffee - but anything better than Tesco's Gold Blend is a waste of money because I can't appreciate it.

 

[Javahead]

Coffee? I use Tesco's Gold Blend instant granules because now my taste buds cannot distinguish between that and a better coffee. I do know that very basic coffee powder tastes awful - nearly as bad as Camp liquid coffee - but anything better than Tesco's Gold Blend is a waste of money because I can't appreciate it.

My profoundest sympathy, Ogg. Good coffee is one of life's more affordable pleasures.

And yes, we can get like wine snobs. My usual favorite: a dark roasted Sumatra, freshly ground, brewed strong in a press pot. Black, please.

 

[NotWise]

And yes, we can get like wine snobs. My usual favorite: a dark roasted Sumatra, freshly ground, brewed strong in a press pot. Black, please.

My wife thought we were coffee snobs because we've spent much of our married lives searching for new and better ways to make coffee. Then she started exploring coffee forums and decided we were not the coffee snobs she thought we were. There are some really over-the-top coffee drinkers out there.

I make coffee with a one-cup Melita cone and filter. When my wife has time, she uses the big Moka pot that a friend of ours brought back from Russia and dilutes the result to make "Americano" coffee.

 

[oggbashan]

My profoundest sympathy, Ogg. Good coffee is one of life's more affordable pleasures.

And yes, we can get like wine snobs. My usual favorite: a dark roasted Sumatra, freshly ground, brewed strong in a press pot. Black, please.

My current lack of taste is one of the minor symptoms of my current medical condition.

But I have never been a wine snob. When we used to go to France regularly to go shopping we would buy reasonable wine at about £15 a bottle. But I always prowled the bargain offers for wine costing less than Coca-Cola or even bottled water. I'd spend the equivalent of ten pounds on more than a dozen wines.

I found some palatable wines and some really appalling ones. At the time the ranking was Appelation Controllée; Vin de Pays; Vin De France and Vin De Table. I would buy wine marked (In French) 'from different regions' or even 'from different countries'. Both were of lower quality than even Vin De Table.

At one Euro or less per litre they were very cheap. Some were sold in plastic bottles or plastic six packs of 25 cl per bottle. Some were drinkable. I should have known that wine labelled (in French) 'Mule's Kick' and 'Onion Skin' were not. The labels accurately described the effect of drinking them.

It was interesting to open a very cheap bottle of wine bought in France not knowing whether I'd enjoy it, or use it as sink cleaner.

 

[NightSailor]

Re: Coffee Snobs & Wine Snobbery

John Cleese aired a wine tasting segment on Food Network called "Wine for the Confused" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnz6KoYw_A) in which he basically pointed out - ignore the snobs. It doesn't matter what they think. It's what you like. Same goes for coffee in my book. I like what I like. If you like Folgers then so be it. Who am I to judge?

 

[_Lynn_]

I know as little about wine as I do about coffee . . . and I'm fine with that.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Re: Coffee Snobs & Wine Snobbery

John Cleese aired a wine tasting segment on Food Network called "Wine for the Confused" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnz6KoYw_A) in which he basically pointed out - ignore the snobs. It doesn't matter what they think. It's what you like. Same goes for coffee in my book. I like what I like. If you like Folgers then so be it. Who am I to judge?

"It doesn't matter what [the snobs] think. It's what you like" is pretty good advice for 95% of gastronomy, and about 87% of everything else in life.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Good for you, Mags.

MP, that let down feeling after a book has been set for release gets shorter and easier with time and more books. .

 

[Handley_Page]

Ah, it's morning then, I guess.
I spent the night on my sofa; not deliberately, mind, I just felt a bit tired after the ten o'clock news.
But it's now really time for a coffee.

 

[NightSailor]

Ah, it's morning then, I guess.
I spent the night on my sofa; not deliberately, mind, I just felt a bit tired after the ten o'clock news.
But it's now really time for a coffee.

That boring eh?

Coffee - large - stat! Thank you.

 

[NotWise]

My coffee's a little on the cool side.

The weather service gave us no chance of rain this morning. Thunder woke me at 5:00 AM and it rained at my house for an hour-and-a-half. It may have been the heaviest storm of the summer, but a mile away they got nothing.

The youngest daughter is flying in this morning for her annual summer visit. If this works out like last year, then I'll hardly see her because her sisters have every minute planned.

 

[Handley_Page]

My coffee's a little on the cool side.

The weather service gave us no chance of rain this morning. Thunder woke me at 5:00 AM and it rained at my house for an hour-and-a-half. It may have been the heaviest storm of the summer, but a mile away they got nothing.

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So the back lawn got mowed this afternoon; a bit of a 'tidy round.'
No sooner was the mower in it's place when down came the rain; Not heavy, or hard, you understand. Just bloody wet !.

 

[oggbashan]

1. Thanks for all the good wishes. I am waiting for a message from the hospital in the next week or so.

2. I have decided my old slow laptop is beyond economic upgrade. I have ordered a refurbished Windows 10 laptop for £166.

The new laptop arrived today but I couldn't get it to boot. I have to 'activate windows' but there was no prompt to do that. I took it to my friendly computer shop who did it for me.

Even if I had found where to do it, I would have been unsuccessful. I couldn't read the product key properly, even with a magnifying glass. My transcription was wrong.

I'll leave it until tomorrow to install my anti-virus and Word.

 

[TxRad]

Okay, so instead of the morning coffee, I'll make it for the midnight crew.

I slept most of last night and most of today. Why? Heck if I know. I just wanted to sleep and sleep. Even now, I'm not wide awake.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

 

[NotWise]

We had a long, cool evening on the patio, sampling high-alcohol beverages from Hungary and talking about ballet people we know. The storms from the north stopped at the edge of the city, and stars lit our conversation.

I love summer nights.

 

[Javahead]

Thanks for the coffee, Tex. Hope you're feeling less tired tomorrow.

 

[TxRad]

Thanks for the coffee, Tex. Hope you're feeling less tired tomorrow.

I'm still up. I've been tweaking and editing on a couple of my finished Summer stories.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

My mom just asked me to look at a suspicious email she got. It was a phishing email claiming to come from a bank we had never even heard of (but after some googling definitely exists). It said it was going to start deducting money from their paypal account monthly for some reason, and to click on a link if you weren't the one who set this up to cancel it.

I'm proud of her. Apparently the years of me telling my parents not to blindly click links and to think about emails they receive is finally paying off.

 

[TxRad]

Hump Day has arrived and now it is time for morning coffee.

There is also a box of donuts on the counter. Help thyself.

Another edit done and 2500 words written on an old story that I thought had died.

 

[oggbashan]

My mom just asked me to look at a suspicious email she got. It was a phishing email claiming to come from a bank we had never even heard of (but after some googling definitely exists). It said it was going to start deducting money from their paypal account monthly for some reason, and to click on a link if you weren't the one who set this up to cancel it.

I'm proud of her. Apparently the years of me telling my parents not to blindly click links and to think about emails they receive is finally paying off.

There are advantages to having an email as oggbashan. Any emails to that account purporting to be from a bank, PayPal, Amazon etc. are obvious spam and/or phishing.