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Jan. 13th, 2011 09:04 amCoffee: Something about nothing / how boring am I
I have seen my 2nd Ikea coffee press, which only cost $10, developing a crack in the carafe. Replacements are generally not internet findable, and on amazon coffee press beakers are $20 or more (a full press itself is $20-30 on avg). I decided not to get the metal coffee press for $30 - but if I break a press every couple of months (or it just breaks due to glass dying in the extreme temperatures?) I'm saving money with a metal unbreakable $30 press. Knowing my luck the filter will break or melt somehow, as the press is metal but the filter plastic. The good thing is the metal press has an air gap - it's sold not for being unbreakable but as keeping coffee warm longer. Since I drink coffee like a sorority girl with a beer bong temperature isn't so important to me.
This coffee shit matters a lot to me, thank you, even if it not worthy of typed discussion.
Speaking of sounding like a coffee snob - I'm not. I mean if I'm stuck up about coffee, it's trying to get good coffee and making sure its fair trade organic. Honestly, I'd be curious if with a blind taste test I really could tell the difference between mine, murky, java shack, starbucks, and 7-11/dunkin donuts/McD. Sure I'm getting the good stuff and I don't mind as I pay less for it overall than starbucks. I think I might like the good stuff, but really - do I know it when I taste it or just when I go through the motions?
I have started to learn about good vs. mainstream liquor, and I learned in college that rail will make a huge hangover difference even if you can't taste the difference when drinking.
I draw the line at being a snob and declaring you can't have the crap because it's just so awful. That type of rant reeks of insecure snobby posturing - I like schaffen, lindt, and decent chocolates but you know what? M&Ms are pretty good. Don't let me cross from enjoying good stuff to using my taste as some sort of validation for my alleged class. An English Prince recently said he cleaned his own toilet...
At work I'm facing a morale crisis. Lots of people are unhappy with how our Director treats them, myself included though currently out of the line of fire, and it's worse as many low performance ratings just came out. One person was "lowered" in an element for having one disagreement with the director...so you argue once, and you can't get a good performance rating!? It's hard not to get down with so many unhappy. I've gotten 2 outstandings in a row, making it highly unlikely I'll get a good score next time unless my major case gets litigated and me credited again this year.
I just saw Dr. specialist salaries in the 3 and 4 hundreds, and already know of real-lawyer salaries. It makes me question my happy employment law practice and wonder if I should find experience or even try to branch out into an OGC position to learn how to practice more general law - and then possibly get the fuck out of gummint and double or more my salary.
Add in the "no fed COLA" and my desire to serve the public is in the toilet. My work ethic is suffering, even if my personal work ethic (or habit?) keeps me pressing on. I'm not sure if, like English royalty, I'm going to enjoy using the scrubber brush.
I have seen my 2nd Ikea coffee press, which only cost $10, developing a crack in the carafe. Replacements are generally not internet findable, and on amazon coffee press beakers are $20 or more (a full press itself is $20-30 on avg). I decided not to get the metal coffee press for $30 - but if I break a press every couple of months (or it just breaks due to glass dying in the extreme temperatures?) I'm saving money with a metal unbreakable $30 press. Knowing my luck the filter will break or melt somehow, as the press is metal but the filter plastic. The good thing is the metal press has an air gap - it's sold not for being unbreakable but as keeping coffee warm longer. Since I drink coffee like a sorority girl with a beer bong temperature isn't so important to me.
This coffee shit matters a lot to me, thank you, even if it not worthy of typed discussion.
Speaking of sounding like a coffee snob - I'm not. I mean if I'm stuck up about coffee, it's trying to get good coffee and making sure its fair trade organic. Honestly, I'd be curious if with a blind taste test I really could tell the difference between mine, murky, java shack, starbucks, and 7-11/dunkin donuts/McD. Sure I'm getting the good stuff and I don't mind as I pay less for it overall than starbucks. I think I might like the good stuff, but really - do I know it when I taste it or just when I go through the motions?
I have started to learn about good vs. mainstream liquor, and I learned in college that rail will make a huge hangover difference even if you can't taste the difference when drinking.
I draw the line at being a snob and declaring you can't have the crap because it's just so awful. That type of rant reeks of insecure snobby posturing - I like schaffen, lindt, and decent chocolates but you know what? M&Ms are pretty good. Don't let me cross from enjoying good stuff to using my taste as some sort of validation for my alleged class. An English Prince recently said he cleaned his own toilet...
At work I'm facing a morale crisis. Lots of people are unhappy with how our Director treats them, myself included though currently out of the line of fire, and it's worse as many low performance ratings just came out. One person was "lowered" in an element for having one disagreement with the director...so you argue once, and you can't get a good performance rating!? It's hard not to get down with so many unhappy. I've gotten 2 outstandings in a row, making it highly unlikely I'll get a good score next time unless my major case gets litigated and me credited again this year.
I just saw Dr. specialist salaries in the 3 and 4 hundreds, and already know of real-lawyer salaries. It makes me question my happy employment law practice and wonder if I should find experience or even try to branch out into an OGC position to learn how to practice more general law - and then possibly get the fuck out of gummint and double or more my salary.
Add in the "no fed COLA" and my desire to serve the public is in the toilet. My work ethic is suffering, even if my personal work ethic (or habit?) keeps me pressing on. I'm not sure if, like English royalty, I'm going to enjoy using the scrubber brush.
