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It’s late, and I’m tired, but I really don’t want to break the chain of daily posts.

So here’s me, from a few mornings ago, in the early stages of my daily bootup sequence.

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  1. Wesley Crusher, Traveler, having helped the Enterprise reunite Data (TNG trilogy The Body Electric David Mack) and subsequently save the Galaxy, once again (Q arching an eyebrow) discovers that extreme exhaustion and coffee is a terrible combination, despite being quasi entity of other planar ability…even in the future, you need sleep, man 😊🖖

  3. Hey, on the subject of coffee that can stand your hair up, I recently started reducing my roasting time and increasing the early level of heat and it has done a couple of things:

    1.) More water loss for an equal level of physical bean darkness yielding more mouth-feel and baking-chocolate type characteristics.
    2.) No more of that bitter aftertaste. Not sure how to put it other than – sort of like the aftertaste of a cheap jammy merlot only less pronounced.

    I used to do a full pound with 1.5 minutes of preheat and then starting a 23:30 roast cycle for a total of 25 minutes bringing the heat up slowly using a P3 profile and controlling things manually starting with ~6 to ~8 minutes remaining.

    Now I’m starting with a 1.5 minute preheat and beginning with a 20:30 minute roast cycle on P1 which is a faster ramp. After about 6 minutes I kick it up to P5 manually and increase the drums speed and have hit first crack as early as 8 minutes to go. Once first crack begins to roll, I kick it back to p3 or even p2, leaving the drum speed fast, and just let it roll till it’s done with 1st crack and then decide whether to carry it further. I did a 17 minute roast the other day. I think that was a bit too short.

    The reason I started trying to shorten my roast time was that I read an article (forgot where) Some roasting competition and the winner was talking about his … jeez I think it was Kenya Nyeri… how he got it so clean and sweet while still bringing out the earthy elements and he said: I could see from the video that he dumped to the cooler at 19 minutes, which was about two or three minutes earlier than most of the competitors and a lightbulb went on. I’ve heard of people unwittingly “cooking” the bean during the early stage of the roast by bringing the temp up too slowly. Instead of drying the bean and then moving directly to roast temperatures as you’re supposed to, the bean spends too much time under 212F and it cooks/steams a little. It gives the bean a bit of a winey / stewed fruit taste, but it doesn’t seem to be looked upon as good so I guessed that this might be the bitter cheap merlot thing I was occasionally getting, particularly with fresher beans and more dense (African etc.) beans. After three shortened roasts – I’m guessing that I was indeed “cooking” the beans a little in the early roast. Really happy with the difference now that I’ve shortened my roast time to ~18 minutes (after a 1.5minute preheat) and am ramping early heat more aggressively with a P1 profile.

    OK. Had to tell someone 😉 Thanks for letting me rant on coffee. LOL.

  11. Swap your mug with a Wonder Woman mug, and that’s me in the morning. Time to go trim my beard. (Keep the streak up, Wil! You’re an inspiration!)

  12. Cool picture. Why not rock a red shirt, though? Nothing like living on the edge. Your hair makes you look like the lead singer of a punk band.

  15. I wish I had hair (I’ve been sporting a “Captain Picard” do for the past decade or so), so I could have epic bed head days like you. I do have a beard, so I get some epic bed beard though 😉

  18. DUDE! your hair is amazeballs!!! coupled with the starfleet jammies i don’t know how anne keeps her hands off you EVER!

  20. Daily posts (from me) were a complete bore, so I gave it up. Daily posts from YOU, Sir, are amazeballs. THIS post, with so few words, says so much, to so many. And brings tears of laughter in a time of real grief. Thank you.

  21. This needs to be done! Hollywood Blockbuster. HBO high-budget mini-series. Lifetime made-for-TV-movie. Local dinner theater? Who cares! An epic like this must be shared with the world at large!

  22. applause
    The eye squint is really A+. It’s probably an automatic touch for an actor, but it’s one of those 20/20 hindsight things that makes me appreciate the quality difference in photos.

  25. What everyone else said… plus, the page loaded, I barked out a guffaw and high fived the screen. You, ensign, are absolutely too much. Keep doing what you do cuz you do it best!!!!

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