Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

May 8 2008

Am I Annoying You? Here, Have Some Coffee

After a day of cane practice, I'm off to work this AM and hoping to make it through the day without any further mishaps. I'm also hoping that someone takes pity on me and helps me carry things from my car to the office as I seem to have quite the bundle of shtuff.

Asking for help doesn't come easy to me. Fortunately, I work for a social service agency, so I am pretty much surrounded all day by professional nurturers. I'm figuring that if I look perplexed and/or pathetic, someone will come to my aid. The reward for whoever helps will be a wonderful pot of coffee, once the new coffee maker actually enters the office.

On Sunday I roasted Colombia Huila - Las Piedras de San Augustin and now, with four days rest, it is truly magnificent. I am itching to share it with my co-workers, several of whom are definitely coffee fiends. In his review, Tom (of Sweet Marias) says: "I would rank this as a top "crowd-pleaser" coffee." That's what I was going for today, and I think I nailed the roast.

I drink coffee like some people drink wine and all too often, what I like about a particular bean is just not what folks think of when talking coffee. And while people generally are amazed when they find that some coffee I am sharing has a hit of blueberry in the cup, it seems that there are a whole lot of folks who are looking for something more archetypically coffee like. This is the coffee for them.

And given that I am going to be a bigger pain in the butt than usual for the next two to three months, bringing in crowd pleaser coffee, from time to time, seems like a very wise move.

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#1 08 May 2008 - 04:26

Having just progressed from a wheelchair to a walking cast to (YES!) a brace, and having had TONS of stuff that had to go up three flights (thank god for elevators), and having a very independent streak, I can really empathize with your situation.

One thing I've learned: I need to occasionally ask for help instead of hoping that people will offer. The truth is, most people like to help, but they aren't mind-readers, and they also are very busy and preoccupied. So ask away! They'll appreciate the fact that you did, and your husband will appreciate that you come home from work in a much better frame of mind than you would have.

Best of luck to you!