Espresso Enthusiasts

[Scepticalscribe]

Just finished my afternoon cup of espresso and used my extra fancy Japanese cup and saucer too.
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Beautiful cup and saucer set @SandboxGeneral - I think it is gorgeous, and it looks especially lovely when playing host to a cup of espresso. Enjoy it.

Um, @Shrink: Not much of a fan of the handleless cup - any handleless cup. My reasons are both practical - hands get burned, when holding the surface of a hot cup - and aesthetic - they don't really appeal to me, but that is merely a personal preference.

But personal preference is personal preference, and thus, something that is quite subjective sometimes: If you like it, may you enjoy using it.

 

[0388631]

I, too, don't fancy throwing a cup of hot coffee somewhere as a result of burnt fingers.

 

[Shrink]

Today I'm acknowledging the second anniversary of my Flying Leap Down The Steps. With a spinal cord injury that generally means whatever capacities haven’t returned most probably won’t return, and whatever negative sequelae remains will be with me from now on.

Enjoying my coffee has come to represent the abilities that have returned over this two-year period. I can walk, unassisted, into my kitchen. I can prepare my coffee, unassisted. I can walk back to my chair, carrying my coffee, and not spill a drop!

So today I am taking special delight in enjoying my coffee as it represents those abilities that allow me to make it independently, unlike many of those who share similar injuries to mine. The coffee tastes especially good today with that in mind.

I invite you all to celebrate with me not the injury, but the recovery. When you are drinking your coffee today stop for one moment and really savor the wonderful brew. And additionally, take just one moment to recognize and enjoy those physical abilities which are taken for granted.

...à votre santé, mes amis..

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Well, @Shrink, I will not 'celebrate' this anniversary, but I will take the opportunity to salute your courage, cheerful optimism, positive outlook, (which cannot have been at all easy) along with your indomitable and unquenchable spirit and sheer zest for life.

This means that while we can - and ought - to celebrate the small pleasures that life has to offer - we ought also to pay homage to your courage and the grace, lack of bitterness, and cheerful spirit with how you have dealt with what happened two years ago. And your positive perspective is refreshing and genuinely up-lifting.

But, your suggestion that we take the time to appreciate the everyday pleasure of life, the mere mundane, the quotidian, - and our capacity to enjoy it - is a most timely one.

For, this is something that I took an almost savage and purely physical pleasure in acknowledging and appreciating while I was based in Kabul, but - as is so often the case - have come to somewhat take for granted when I have been at home for a while.

Never mind. It is good to take a step back and contemplate where one stands.

So, I shall certainly raise a cup of coffee to you sometime over the coming days, when I have the time to sit and think about such matters. Meanwhile, enjoy your coffee. Salut!

 

[Shrink]

Well, @Shrink, I will not 'celebrate' this anniversary, but I will take the opportunity to salute your courage, cheerful optimism, positive outlook, (which cannot have been at all easy) along with your indomitable and unquenchable spirit and sheer zest for life.

This means that while we can - and ought - to celebrate the small pleasures that life has to offer - we ought also to pay homage to your courage and the grace, lack of bitterness, and cheerful spirit in how you have dealt with what happened two years ago. And your positive perspective is refreshing and genuinely up-lifting.

But, your suggestion that we take the time to appreciate the everyday pleasure of life, the mere mundane, the quotidian, - and our capacity to enjoy it - is a most timely one.

For, this is something that I took an almost savage and purely physical pleasure in acknowledging and appreciating while I was based in Kabul, but - as is so often the case - have come to somewhat take for granted when I have been at home for a while.

Never mind. It is good to take a step back and contemplate where one stands.

So, I shall certainly raise a cup of coffee to you sometime over the coming days, when I have the time to sit and think about such matters. Meanwhile, enjoy your coffee. Salut!

Thank you, dear friend, for your kind words and continuing support. It means so much to me.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Today I'm acknowledging the second anniversary of my Flying Leap Down The Steps. With a spinal cord injury that generally means whatever capacities haven’t returned most probably won’t return, and whatever negative sequelae remains will be with me from now on.

Enjoying my coffee has come to represent the abilities that have returned over this two-year period. I can walk, unassisted, into my kitchen. I can prepare my coffee, unassisted. I can walk back to my chair, carrying my coffee, and not spill a drop!

So today I am taking special delight in enjoying my coffee as it represents those abilities that allow me to make it independently, unlike many of those who share similar injuries to mine. The coffee tastes especially good today with that in mind.

I invite you all to celebrate with me not the injury, but the recovery. When you are drinking your coffee today stop for one moment and really savor the wonderful brew. And additionally, take just one moment to recognize and enjoy those physical abilities which are taken for granted.

...à votre santé, mes amis..

Well I'm glad you were able to make enough of a recovery to make a coffee unaided. But as was said elsewhere I think it's the way you have bounced back mentally that should be commended. It would be too easy for you to have spiralled into a dark place. Yet your humour is apparent as ever. I try to be the same myself despite a rather trying year. It's not always easy, but is better than the alternative.

Also in other news I noticed a mutual friend posted elsewhere she had been dabbling with tea elsewhere.

I'm not sure of the appropriate punishment, but I'm sure you and SBG (or as you are known the coffee police!) will hand out a suitable punishment.

 

[Shrink]

Well I'm glad you were able to make enough of a recovery to make a coffee unaided. But as was said elsewhere I think it's the way you have bounced back mentally that should be commended. It would be too easy for you to have spiralled into a dark place. Yet your humour is apparent as ever. I try to be the same myself despite a rather trying year. It's not always easy, but is better than the alternative.

Also in other news I noticed a mutual friend posted elsewhere she had been dabbling with tea elsewhere.

I'm not sure of the appropriate punishment, but I'm sure you and SBG (or as you are known the coffee police!) will hand out a suitable punishment.

Actually, it is @mobilehaathi who is the keeper and enforcer of the Coffee Laws.

He is very strict and punitive. I was the victim of his wrath at one time as I had committed an unmentionable mistake during coffee preparation.

If he is around, I'm sure he'll handle this.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Actually, it is @mobilehaathi who is the keeper and enforcer of the Coffee Laws.

He is very strict and punitive. I was the victim of his wrath at one time as I had committed an unmentionable mistake during coffee preparation.

If he is around, I'm sure he'll handle this.

Well I barely escaped with my MR membership when I mentioned the 'I' word in here.

 

[S.B.G]

Today I'm acknowledging the second anniversary of my Flying Leap Down The Steps. With a spinal cord injury that generally means whatever capacities haven’t returned most probably won’t return, and whatever negative sequelae remains will be with me from now on.

Enjoying my coffee has come to represent the abilities that have returned over this two-year period. I can walk, unassisted, into my kitchen. I can prepare my coffee, unassisted. I can walk back to my chair, carrying my coffee, and not spill a drop!

So today I am taking special delight in enjoying my coffee as it represents those abilities that allow me to make it independently, unlike many of those who share similar injuries to mine. The coffee tastes especially good today with that in mind.

I invite you all to celebrate with me not the injury, but the recovery. When you are drinking your coffee today stop for one moment and really savor the wonderful brew. And additionally, take just one moment to recognize and enjoy those physical abilities which are taken for granted.

...à votre santé, mes amis..

I for one am very glad to still have you around, even if you do drink your coffee from a toilet. All of MacRumors was lost and undone without you during your recovery period and we were without wisdom and coffee recommendations.

Plus, I am happy to call you my friend as you have clearly had a positive impact on my life and bring me happiness when we talk. I'm glad you've been able to recover to a functional state and take care of yourself, walk, make and enjoy coffee and even drive again.

 

[JamesMike]

Enjoying a cup of Costa Rican espresso, delicious.

 

[Shrink]

I for one am very glad to still have you around, even if you do drink your coffee from a toilet. All of MacRumors was lost and undone without you during your recovery period and we were without wisdom and coffee recommendations.

Plus, I am happy to call you my friend as you have clearly had a positive impact on my life and bring me happiness when we talk. I'm glad you've been able to recover to a functional state and take care of yourself, walk, make and enjoy coffee and even drive again.

Thank you, Buddy. Your friendship has added immeasurably to my quality of life, and your support has been invaluable.


...even though you are frequently cruel to the elderly...

 

[S.B.G]

...even though you are frequently cruel to the elderly...

You mean you're old?

 

[Shrink]

You mean you're old?

We don't really like to be called "old", we prefer the Experienced, Advisers, Wise Ones, Masters, and Seasoned Citizens.

However, if those appellations are not acceptable, then one might use the living dead, antique, time worn, decrepid, stale, senile, vintage, out-of-date, or old school.

As for my age, do you remember the Big Bang... well, I do.

 

[0388631]

So sick of today. Espresso over ice cream, also known as affogato.

 

[mobilehaathi]

As for my age, do you remember the Big Bang... well, I do.

Yeah, next time don't tamp so hard! It took 3 billion years just to find all the pieces of the machine....

 

[S.B.G]

We don't really like to be called "old", we prefer the Experienced, Advisers, Wise Ones, Masters, and Seasoned Citizens.

Oh, don't forget stricken in years.

 

[Shrink]

Oh, don't forget stricken in years.

Once again...disrespectful of those geezers with greater wisdom than you, young whippersnapper!

Kids these days...sheesh.

 

[0388631]

Best to drown your sorrows in two fingers worth of scotch in your... toilet mug.

 

[Shrink]

To those of you finding humor in my mug...

 

[Teon]

Have a coffee time on work, drink lavazza, enjoy live
tomorrow will be friday
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So sick of today. Espresso over ice cream, also known as affogato.

Maby you mean frappe?.. )

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Espresso book-ended the day, but was interspersed with with healthy helpings of both cognac and tea.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I for one am very glad to still have you around, even if you do drink your coffee from a toilet. All of MacRumors was lost and undone without you during your recovery period and we were without wisdom and coffee recommendations.

Plus, I am happy to call you my friend as you have clearly had a positive impact on my life and bring me happiness when we talk. I'm glad you've been able to recover to a functional state and take care of yourself, walk, make and enjoy coffee and even drive again.

Oh, yes.

Inexplicably, it slipped my mind to mention that any clip that features Mr Spock - a hero of mine since childhood - is always a treat to behold and a delight to view.

Feel free to post them........oh, always. I shall never tire of them.

 

[0388631]

I had no coffee bean product yesterday. Which is due to running out of beans. I didn't bother with the coffee at work. It's Peet's with a fresh roast but it's a very dark roast. Blegh. We recently had an eco friendly business come round and pick up our filters with grounds in them which we keep in a plastic bin in the fridge to prevent mold. I have no idea what they use it for but it'll keep our trash bins from reeking of coffee.

I've got a quarter pound of a "moka" blend from who knows when that I'll try in the morning. It'll be incredibly stale but I've ordered some stuff from Stumpertown and who knows when it'll get here. I'm expecting several large packages on Tuesday through Fedex. Will probably go to Whole Foods in the morning and buy a half pound of their daily roast beans to keep us until those Stumpertown beans arrive. Costa Rican something or another. It was about $24 for 12 oz of beans, so it better be lovely. I can't recall the last time I paid that much for a non African origin roast from a third waver.

frappe

No? The frappe is a bastardization of the affogato, an Italian espresso based dessert of modern time. The Frappe was originally and is meant to be made with "i" coffee but today it's blended with milk or alternative "dairy" with ice or icecream depending on preference. The affogato Starbucks offers now isn't close to getting the real deal. Actually, scratch that, I wouldn't call anything Starbucks offers a "real deal." The earliest mention I've seen of affogato was in a digitized version of an article from the late 1960s or very early 1970s. If memory serves me correctly, it was conceived sometime during the years between WW1 and WWII.

It goes without saying that affogato made even with the best espresso and gelato one can get in the states isn't remotely close to what one can experience in Italy. To call affogato a frappe is akin to calling caffe corretto a Kahlua drink.

 

[S.B.G]

This morning's espresso is brought to you by the Atomic Coffee Roasters of Massachusetts. "French Roast" blend.

I already had a few sips when this picture was taken. I just love how the surface tension between the Le Creuset cup and the crema bind together on the sides like that. It's science in action! I don't get that kind of surface tension on the glass cups though.

 

[Shrink]

This morning's espresso is brought to you by the Atomic Coffee Roasters of Massachusetts. "French Roast" blend.

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I already had a few sips when this picture was taken. I just love how the surface tension between the Le Creuset cup and the crema bind together on the sides like that. It's science in action! I don't get that kind of surface tension on the glass cups though.

Oh, yeah!?

Well, wait until I get my toilet bowl cup...you'll see some tension then!