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edenfallingHe told our parents last night. Dad took it well. Mom is much more ??? about it, but they were both very loving and supportive. :)
I will probably end up talking to Mom about stuff within the next few days. I'm not sure how that conversation will go. A lot of processing, probably.
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Anyway! On to the shitposting segment of this post. Today's random word pulled from the February Shitposting topic list is coffee.
I don't drink coffee. I am, however, pretty good at brewing coffee. I can also grind coffee, talk semi-knowledgeably about coffee varieties, and recommend coffee blends based on people's expressed likes and dislikes. This is because the smoke shop, where I worked for 8.5 years, was also a low-rent coffee shop -- by which I mean we sold coffee (both beans and brewed), but we didn't have tables and chairs for people to sit and drink it. We were strictly a to-go place.
I have also brewed coffee as an unpaid teenage usher at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey for a couple summers in the 90s, as food service staff at an assisted living home (my college summer job), and at Not the IRS. But I still don't drink it.
When I was a kid I figured I'd have to learn to drink coffee when I grew up, but it turns out that actually tea has become more readily available so I never needed to bother. Nonetheless, coffee is something that I could teach myself to drink... unlike beer. I don't know what it is about some unpleasant flavors that makes me think, "This is nasty but I could get accustomed to it if I wanted to bother," versus, "This is nasty and I will never think otherwise." But there IS a difference, and for me coffee and beer exemplify the two sides of that divide.
So those are my thoughts on coffee.
I will probably end up talking to Mom about stuff within the next few days. I'm not sure how that conversation will go. A lot of processing, probably.
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Anyway! On to the shitposting segment of this post. Today's random word pulled from the February Shitposting topic list is coffee.
I don't drink coffee. I am, however, pretty good at brewing coffee. I can also grind coffee, talk semi-knowledgeably about coffee varieties, and recommend coffee blends based on people's expressed likes and dislikes. This is because the smoke shop, where I worked for 8.5 years, was also a low-rent coffee shop -- by which I mean we sold coffee (both beans and brewed), but we didn't have tables and chairs for people to sit and drink it. We were strictly a to-go place.
I have also brewed coffee as an unpaid teenage usher at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey for a couple summers in the 90s, as food service staff at an assisted living home (my college summer job), and at Not the IRS. But I still don't drink it.
When I was a kid I figured I'd have to learn to drink coffee when I grew up, but it turns out that actually tea has become more readily available so I never needed to bother. Nonetheless, coffee is something that I could teach myself to drink... unlike beer. I don't know what it is about some unpleasant flavors that makes me think, "This is nasty but I could get accustomed to it if I wanted to bother," versus, "This is nasty and I will never think otherwise." But there IS a difference, and for me coffee and beer exemplify the two sides of that divide.
So those are my thoughts on coffee.
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Date: 2019-02-04 01:49 pm (UTC)I'm in the same "I could learn to like this, but why bother?" boat regarding coffee. Perfectly delightful teas exist; why teach myself to drink something else that (going on the example of my parents) I'll probably have to stop drinking a couple decades later?
I do not know how to make coffee at all, because my parents had an automatic coffee maker and I don't live with anyone who likes coffee. I was oddly pleased when I randomly ran across a diagram of how a coffeemaker works, though; it's a pretty nifty and compact mechanism!
(Beer is also disgusting and definitely not on the 'could learn to drink this' list. It smells like unneutered-dog urine, ugh.)
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Date: 2019-02-04 02:56 pm (UTC)I am sort of distantly fascinated by the sheer variety of coffee brewing methods people have come up with over the years. Conversely, I think there are really only two teamaking methods -- steep leaves or whisk powder -- and neither of those mechanizes nearly as well.