A Sense of Doubt blog post #3671 - COFFEE IS LIFE (and games) Reprints of #560 and #609 from 2017

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3671 - COFFEE IS LIFE (and games) Reprints of #560 and #609 from 2017

Eight years ago today, I was playing DOMINION because my wife was out of town. It was my first time playing a game I now own most of the expansions for and play a few times each year. I had forgotten that I tried to buy a copy of it at Fanfare before I played the first time and Josh Hall (likely him) talked me out of it.

If you click through to the original post for #690, I still have not played Elder Sign.

But I love DOMINION.

But the bulk of the reprints here are about coffee, both reminding me to make COLD BREW, which I have not done in years, AND this bit I pulled out of #690 about a coffee maker mishap.

Coffee is life.

Thanks for tuning in.

FROM #690:

Remember this - HEY MOM #560.

For more on the importance of coffee, see my coffee category.

Then there was this ...

So it's been a day.


LINK TO THE ORIGINAL POST I AM REPRINTING BELOW, and link to the content above:

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #560 - Cold Brew Coffee

and I only reprinted part of this one, but you can look at the whole thing if you want to:

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #609 - Playing Dominion Tonight

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

via Warren Ellis

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #560 - Cold Brew Coffee

Hi Mom, It's time to cold brew some coffee. This is something I have been meaning to do for some time. I need to get some espresso bean tomorrow. to cold brew.

This comes via Cory Doctorow via @crashwong Alyssa Wong). Thanks to those fine people for this re-posted content.

That's it for today. Going to bed early tonight.

Repost from

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/20/cheap-easy-no-mess-cold-brew.html

CHEAP, EASY, NO-MESS COLD-BREW COFFEE

patrickroppisdead:

mostlysignssomeportents:

 Last summer, while teaching the Clarion workshop, I came up with a great, no-mess way to make cold-brew coffee. This is the best-tasting coffee you’re likely to drink this summer.

I bought a $10 “nut-milk” bag and a plastic pitcher. Every night before bed, I ground up about 15 Aeropress scoops’ (570 ml) worth of espresso roast coffee — the $20 Krups grinder is fine for this, though I wouldn’t use it with an actual espresso machine — leaving the beans coarse. I filled the bag with the grind, put it in the bottom of the empty pitcher like a huge tea-bag, and topped up the pitcher with tap water (distilled water would have been better — fewer dissolved solids means that it’ll absorb more of the coffee solids, but that’s not a huge difference). I wedged the top of the bag between the lid and the pitcher and stuck it in the fridge overnight.

In the morning, I took the bag out of the pitcher and gave it a good squeeze to get the liquor out of the mush inside. Add water to the pitcher to fill to the brim and voila, amazing cold-brew. You can dilute it 1:1 or even further.

Cleanup was easy: invert the bag over a trashcan or garbage disposal, rinse off the bag, and you’re ready to go.

This produced very, very good coffee concentrate, with only a little grit settled into the bottom 3mm of the pitcher (easy to avoid). It may just be the cheapest and easiest cold-brewing method I’ve yet tried.

Can attest: extremely good coffee concentrate. 

Yo, Cory’s cold brew coffee is the best. And it will wake you the hell up.

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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

- Days ago = 562 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1701.17 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2503.07 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3536 days ago & DAD = 191 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.