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I'd like to drive a car I can't afford, maybe a $78,000 C8?

Yeah, we were doing the coffee pod thing for a while. I decided I wanted to go for better coffee. Pods are "fine" in a pinch, but nothing remarkable. And I drink coffee black, because I actually LIKE the taste of coffee, so I figured I might as well get a good grinder and brewer. Buddy is a coffee snob, so I just took his recommendation for a nice burr grinder and drip coffee maker. It's much better.

I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of trying to roast my own beans or anything crazy like that yet though.

Yet.

It's like homebrewing.  You can get as into it, and spend as much money, as you want.  Dangerous.

It's like homebrewing.  You can get as into it, and spend as much money, as you want.  Dangerous.

Yep. And like homebrewing, probably go through a nice, long, learning period where your output is significantly worse than what you can buy. All while you're telling yourself it's great, because I'm sure new coffee roasters, like new homebrewers, suffer from ugly baby syndrome. 

Yeah, we were doing the coffee pod thing for a while. I decided I wanted to go for better coffee. Pods are "fine" in a pinch, but nothing remarkable. And I drink coffee black, because I actually LIKE the taste of coffee, so I figured I might as well get a good grinder and brewer. Buddy is a coffee snob, so I just took his recommendation for a nice burr grinder and drip coffee maker. It's much better.

I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of trying to roast my own beans or anything crazy like that yet though.

Yet.

My dad's into that.  He's got a roaster that looks very steampunk....I like the look of it more than anything it actually accomplishes.  He buys beans from all different countries and tinkered around with the process for a while with them.  Claims his stuff was actually wretched at first, and that he had to figure out a different process for different beans.  Then he has some kind of grinder machine that matches the first, but it's smaller.  The whole thing looks cooler than the utility of it, because I don't much care for regular coffee.  

Semi-retired people get up to some stuff, let me tell you.  

I work from home on Friday's.  The wife works sales from home every day.

Hearing her work the phones, and clients, and then hearing her yell from the other room --  "Got another one.....made (whatever)" commission, followed by a "woo hoo, how ya like that!", always makes me happy.

I mentioned somewhere here last year about my stepson's gf who is about halfway like an adopted daughter to me....comes from a less than ideal family and really pulled herself up by her bootstraps.  Last night several of the wife's family members were out eating to celebrate my stepson's graduation this afternoon, but his gf couldn't join us because she had a "graduation" to take care of herself.  She's a special ed. kindergarten teacher at a pretty small school district, so she only has four kids in her class.  Because I guess everything gets a "graduation" now, the kids "graduate" to elementary school from kindergarten, and this was her first class.  This morning I got a text, a photo of her last night while she was missing eating out with us.  It's her and her little classroom kiddos in their cap and gowns, with their little adorable, snaggle-tooth mouths.  And she's pretty adorable herself, appearing to beam with pride for these kids.  It's all cataclysmically cute, and I'd post the photo here because she wouldn't care about her picture, but it's probably not cool to post photos to the web of other people's kids.  Anyway, that made me happy today.  

I mentioned somewhere here last year about my stepson's gf who is about halfway like an adopted daughter to me....comes from a less than ideal family and really pulled herself up by her bootstraps.  Last night several of the wife's family members were out eating to celebrate my stepson's graduation this afternoon, but his gf couldn't join us because she had a "graduation" to take care of herself.  She's a special ed. kindergarten teacher at a pretty small school district, so she only has four kids in her class.  Because I guess everything gets a "graduation" now, the kids "graduate" to elementary school from kindergarten, and this was her first class.  This morning I got a text, a photo of her last night while she was missing eating out with us.  It's her and her little classroom kiddos in their cap and gowns, with their little adorable, snaggle-tooth mouths.  And she's pretty adorable herself, appearing to beam with pride for these kids.  It's all cataclysmically cute, and I'd post the photo here because she wouldn't care about her picture, but it's probably not cool to post photos to the web of other people's kids.  Anyway, that made me happy today. 

Guess what?


This made me happy today as well.  Good on her!