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i had this bag of coffee, all roasted and ground and it was burning a hole on my counter.
every time i pulled a few shots of espresso, every time i made lunch, every time i did dishes
or made dinner ... it just stared me down. i could hear it whispering to me.
well, tonight in near darkness i loaded the mamiya up with plus x
and i walked around the melted snow.
grass was peeking through in the january thaw
it was muddy and foggy and the street lamp was ...

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My Daddy turned 68 today. He was born on a military base in southern Texas along the Gulf, don't recall where exactly. Grandpa was in the Army.

Dad played football in high school with Mike Gottfried at Crestline High in Ohio. He joined the Navy and served on the USS Orion (AS18) from 61 to 65 after graduating from the GL Naval Training Center. He became a machinist and met my Mom at a kegger at Kent State in 68, the year after she graduated from high school. They got married ...

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Next on the menu is the big 4.1 core forum update which contains over 500 bug fixes and many feature requests. There will also be a gallery update and I think we'll shoot for importing the old links system into the new system.

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this afternoon, i had about 40 minutes to burn, well, roast ... before picking the kids up from their last day
of school for the year. i grabbed the tin and hot plate and green beans and roasted a 4 handfuls of coffee.
slow roasted for a lot of it, the first group was small, about 1 handful ... the beans went from green to brownish, to tan.
the oils came and went ... when they got black i poured them out ...
i put the rest of the green beans in the tin and stirred ...

i took a queue from billh but rather than call it
the generic i went for the varietal

i went for a handful of different lighting, slow film and fast
panf was purchased in 1996 but never used, plus x is expired as well ...

the coffee was roasted and re-roasted until it was black outside and in.
i'm not sure what it would be called ... it was kind of sooty from the pan

then it was ground ... part fine part extra fine, part medium, ...

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