Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

October 4 2006

No Coffee Here, Nope

I smell like sesame seeds. That's a good thing, right?

It's a dry skin thing, well that an addiction to Lush products, that is hard to break. This is something called Skin Drink. You know that your sexpot days are over when smelling like sesame seeds is better than risking dry skin.

At least it took fifty plus years for me to get this way. The amazingly ugly fellow (and I am betting he is not much better when disguised as a man) in this Shakira spoof video (found on google) is waaay beyond the kind of help a moisturizer provides.

What do you want to bet that he's the kind of guy who makes rude remarks about women who are ten pounds overweight?

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October 3 2006

Catching Up

I didn't die, or abandon my weblog; it's just been a crazy-making month. I was out of the country for a bit, recovering from being out of the country for a bit longer, and then in the middle of a computer meltdown, for what seemed like ages, but was really only about half a bit.

Life is calm now, or, at least, as calm as it gets around here.

The coffee here is very good, in fact, so good, that I think I found our standard house brew. Not that I am going to stop ordering all sorts of other beans, but I think I found something I will always want to have on hand. Fortunately, it is Moka Kadir, one of the Sweet Maria blends, so I should never have problems getting it. Here is some of what what Tom has to say about it:

Notes: This is a powerful blend of coffees from the Red Sea area, from Yemeni coffees on one side, and Ethiopian coffees on the other. I intended for the exotic espresso shot or filtered coffee. It incorporates three excellent Dry-Processed coffees that contribute to a huge body, strong bittersweet chocolate roast-taste, and intense fruity aromatics. Since all are Dry-Processed and have nearly equivalent identities and moisture contents, this an acceptable pre-roast blend (as opposed to blending coffees after roasting them separately). None these coffees roast to a uniform color individually, which is part of their character and complexity in the cup. My purpose here is to offer a precisely blended coffee I love, and save you from buying the coffees separately. The Yemeni, Sidamo and Ghimbi coffees we use for our Moka Kadir are stocked just for the blend, which makes it hard (well, impossible) for you to recreate this though; and I feel the coffees need to be pre-blended and equalize moisture content with each other, something that works well in large batches.

It is just on the edge of being too cold to roast outside, meaning I can do it, but whilst wearing a coat. I love my iRoast2, but I am really so much happier with my bread machine heat gun set up. It's a control thing. Well, that and the joy of roasting bigger quantities. I roasted inside this AM, with one of the beans I got as part of the recently purchased SM sample pack. I don't want to wait to try it, but as it is a So. American bean, I will force myself to wait for a few days. The Moka Kadir tastes great the day after I roast, and stays that way until I run out of beans (usually 5 days later), which makes it a terrific bean for bigger batch roasting. An IR2 batch lasts about two days at our house.

Leaving the land of coffee for a bit, we are eagerly awaiting the delivery of our TiVo. Getting one in Canada has been a hassle, with some minor hacking needed to actually get it to work here. And while you still can't go into a store and just pick one off the shelves, you can order one from a Canadian source and just set it up like the Americans do. It was shipped out yesterday (following a week delay) and it should be here in time for the big guy to play with it this weekend.

It's been a rotten time to be without a VCR or other recorder, though I have made do with various things available over the Internet. RT won't watch TV in my media player window, but I will. On the plus side, I will have all of the episodes of season 4 of Corner Gas on my machine and can burn them to DVD for my Ozzie friend who waits and waits for the new seasons to be available on a commercial DVD. I don't feel even slightly guilty for recording "free" TV, after all, I am not taking money from some poor starving artist. Yup, I hear you Weird Al.

That said, rock on Azureus.