WHAT A BUNCH OF BABIES!!!
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Dreck (September 24th, 2020), Sailor Kenshin (September 19th, 2020), VertOlive (September 21st, 2020)
The best cup of coffee I ever had was made over an open fire on a camping trip in in the Redwoods.
Been chasing that perfect cup ever since.
Jon Szanto (September 19th, 2020)
I do Turkish, too, which is basically what’s in your pic Jon.
Jon Szanto (September 19th, 2020)
Congratulations on a well deserved retirement. Thank you for 31 years of public service.
"Retirement is about more time to choose what a person does knowing that time is no longer totally on their side. I suppose we all need to pause and reflect on the small and important pleasures wherever we are and whatever tribulations and trials we face."
Indeed. Best wishes,
bob
Bob
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My wife and daughter were making breakfast yesterday, I just finished spending my morning replacing a broken floodlight for the driveway. When suddenly she yelled from the kitchen "Dad! I made a Millennium Falcon pancake!"
Sure enough, the pancake had the distinct features of the heavily modified Correlian Freighter YT-1300 including the white outline of the ship's hyperdrive on the back
And we geek-out about Star Wars for a few moments.
Yes, small but important joy is what precious memories are made out of.
Thank you for this thread, Jon.
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amk (September 22nd, 2020), AzJon (September 21st, 2020), carlos.q (September 22nd, 2020), catbert (September 21st, 2020), empliau (September 22nd, 2020), Jon Szanto (September 21st, 2020), Lady Onogaro (September 24th, 2020), Sailor Kenshin (September 21st, 2020), silverlifter (September 21st, 2020), VertOlive (September 21st, 2020)
Catching up on this thread is a small, important pleasure.
AzJon (September 21st, 2020), Jon Szanto (September 21st, 2020)
This one was a slightly larger pleasure...
Yesterday was the 11-year anniversary of the release of this album. A few weeks after that, I had the thrill of a lifetime to sit in with the band during their concert here in San Diego, playing drums on Jimi Hendrix' "Little Wing". All because i gave a young guy drum lessons many years before that and formed a lifelong bond, as he went on to great heights (Matt was the drummer for Soundgarden, and later became the drummer for Pearl Jam). To see someone like that attain their dreams is, well, beyond measure.
"When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Chrissy (September 22nd, 2020), empliau (September 22nd, 2020), Jon Szanto (September 21st, 2020)
Regards, Chrissy | My Review Blog: inkyfountainpens
VertOlive (September 30th, 2020)
I will never forget visiting a Friend in Milwaukee WI for a weekend when her Mother asked if we wanted coffee after dinner; she poured water into a pan, added coffee & an egg white with the shell & put it on her stove top til it boiled. I had grown up with percolated coffee, drip made makers & finally settled on French press as my favored choice but that cup of coffee was delicious!
I expressed surprise & asked if she had always made her coffee this way @ she said yes, it was the way HER Mother had made it & she saw to reason to change. They lived in a lakefront house @ least 7,000 square feet in size, so obviously the cost of a coffee maker was not the reason for her choice of method, it was just that she saw no reason to mess around with any method that was more involved than what she had grown up with.
When I returned home I mentioned my coffee experience to my Mother when she laughed & said she also had grown up with same coffee, except her Mother wouldn't have used the egg white but instead relied on the remaining egg white in the shell to provide the necessary white to "settle the grounds."
I was thus introduced to old fashioned "boiled coffee;" It was made on a gas stove but surely similar to "cowboy coffee."
AzJon (September 23rd, 2020), Dreck (September 24th, 2020), Jon Szanto (September 22nd, 2020), Sailor Kenshin (September 22nd, 2020)
I use a coffee press, no filters, no boiling, no eggs, and no waste.
I only drink decaf, though. With soy milk!
Vintage. Cursive italic. Iron gall.
Jon Szanto (September 22nd, 2020)
AzJon (September 23rd, 2020), Chrissy (September 23rd, 2020), Ole Juul (September 23rd, 2020), silverlifter (September 22nd, 2020)
I'm going to have to give this a try! I've been making CDM coffee with chicory in a french press at home, and in a drip-maker in my classroom (and now have a few students who are CDM devotees), but this method sounds very intriguing.
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As soon as the audience begins to participate, any actual content is lost in the resulting chaos and cacophony.
At that point, all you can do is laugh and enjoy the descent into debasement.
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