Happiness is a Five Pound Bag Of Coffee!
We all have our ups and downs, good days and bad, highs and lows. Some of us cope with retail therapy, some meditate, some visit a professional to lay on their couch and talk it all out. Me? I drink coffee. And regardless of the type of morning, afternoon, day I've...
Cortado? Yes please, any time of day.
What is a cortado? It is a delicious, smaller coffee that is delightful on any occasion. You don't want a big mug of black coffee? Fine. Not a full-size latte? Or a cappuccino? Cortado is the way to go. Served in a glass, yes, a glass, it is properly 2 shots of...
2020 Coffee Bonanza Christmas Gift List!
Warning: You're going to want all these things for yourself. And it's just fine if you get them, and then never dole them out to anyone. The choice is yours. 2020 Coffee Bonanza Christmas Gift List (in no order of preference) GO!!! Everybody needs a coffee first thing...
Dirty…Chai!?!?
You ever randomly read one of those articles that suggest something for you based on your Zodiac Sign? "What's a Zodiac? Isn't that some type of boat?" Well, yes, but for these purposes, it is your astrological sign under which your birthday is categorized. I came...
Ho. Lee. Mackerel! 11.23.20 Does anybody realize what today is???
No, it's not Li'l Baby Jesus Day, that's in a month. It's National Espresso Day! That's obviously the BEST day of the year! I mean come on, you can have a coffee every morning, but only one precious day of the year is it actually officially sanctioned to have an...
Caffeine Differences…Nope!
Having been a lifelong caffeine addict, just coffee not any of that "Made By the Man" fakey caffeine (Read: Redbull. Yucko), I start the day with a double espresso and go from there. So when I have recently been taking to the occasional chai as the first cup in the...
Chai…Chai?!?!?
After a lifetime of drinking coffee, I have been introduced to chai. "Introduced?! It's been around forever." Clarity, I have known of its existence, and tried it before. Lots. Every time it was this cloyingly sweet or hyper spicy weird beverage that WASN'T coffee. It...
Pumpkin Spice Everything Tiiiiiiiiiiime!
You know what time of year it is when the pumpkin varieties of absolutely everything become available. Pumpkin soap? Pumpkin aerosol air freshener? Pumpkin flavor trees that hang from your rear-view mirror? Enough! Wait. Oh! pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. PSL for...
2020 National Coffee Day!
September 29th might just be the best day ever. Well, if you're reading this then you might get what I'm saying. How could you not love this day? Do you anxiously flip through the wall calendar and mark the days off waiting all year till today? Of course you do!...
Upgrading the Relay aka: For Those Who Are Lost
So there was a problem. All of a sudden, the espresso machine was not getting the right amount of juice anymore. The water boiler was not...uh...boiling. Within this remarkable espresso apparatus was an electrical relay that told the energy where to go and when, how...
New Home
So I had the new espresso machine. It was time to rehome the old one I had so lovingly cared for all those years. Where should it go? Where could it go? I had to rehome it somewhere I knew it would be cherished and used daily. Still had some life left. You don't take...
The Upgrade
So it was twelve years later. I had used the heck out of my that machine, the Estro Vapore. Given it so much TLC and love. Rebuilt the insides, gone to the local hardware and replaced screws that had sheared off from use and age, but it was at the end of its life. It...