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Re: Whatcha smokin tonight?

@Yakster said:

@peter4jc said:

How's it smoking, Peter? Does it need more rest or is it smoking good?

Each of my 5'er got better. This was my last one, and I enjoyed it. If my buying freeze expires, I may get more.

peter4jc

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Re: What is in your pipe?

@Yakster said:
Sweet Cavicchi, George, beautiful flame grain and I'm a sucker for metal accent pieces.

Enjoying some C&D OJK (Old Joe Krantz) in my Kriswill Bernadotte Chimney, paired with a shot of Sumatra Arisarina Mandheling Wet-Hulled pulled at a 1:2.5 ratio (20 grams ground coffee, 50 grams output espresso) on my Robot. The tasting notes for this coffee from Bodhi Leaf are Tobacco, Roasted Almond, Dark Chocolate but this morning's pot of brewed coffee reminded me of that Colombia Edinson Argote Gesha from Be Bright with some slight peach notes and some earthy tobacco notes that reminded me of the dank weed notes from that Gesha. I didn't find that in the espresso shot, it was a bit sour, with some fruity and strong notes, I'll have to try increasing the temperature next time I pull this coffee as espresso.

I had trouble uploading the photos this morning. I compressed them both and the espresso cup uploaded but not the pipe photo so I redid the compression with different parameters and finally got the pipe photo to upload on the third try.

You articulate everything much better than some movie producers do. Really enjoy the thought you put into coffee , pipe tobacco,and cigars. It makes one think of all the time , work and labor it takes to produce them.

edz

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Re: What's for dinner?

@CalvinAndHobo said:
Roasted veggies with chorizo gravy. Not as good as just regular sausage gravy, but good enough and a fun experiment.

Chorizo is so different , much like breakfast or hot. I love a good chorizo sausage or gravy.

edz

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Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread

I finished charging my solar generators / power banks today, but it took me several days to charge the large one because of weather and the fact that the sun is lower in the sky now and there's fences and trees blocking the path. The sawhorses and boards helped get it done. I also got the apps installed for my two power banks and was able to set limits for charging / discharging which should help with long-term battery life.

Yakster

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Re: Political Discussions

@edz said:

@Itsfine said:

@edz said:
As far as Argentina , according to AI 20 Million is about .000029% of the federal budget. That's split between currency exchange and a loan.

I've never heard of a country paying back a loan that we gave them. But I'm probably wrong.

In all respect you are wrong. Finland, UK, Heck wasn't that many years ago that Germany finished its debt to us from world war 2. The cash swap isn't a loan

Fair. With all due respect back, Argentina is no Finland or UK or even Germany. Although we don't really annotate anything by numbering worlds anymore, memory serves me correctly, it was a second world nation when I was studying such things.