Ryan’s Place

Due to the massive amount of feedback I received for my last blog, I’ve decided to write a follow up.

I also wanted to spite Danny by including a photo of where I’m currently sitting.

Please see the attached.

On a more serious note, while I was sitting here and nearly accosted by 20 exercising momas with strollers, my piegion friends and I have been silently discussing the meaning of life and considering my options. As well as my use of run on sentences.

For the past month or so I’ve been thinking about my current situation, maybe a little too much. By now, most of you might already know that I made it to the second round of interviews for an apple genius position. Only to be bested by one of my senior co-workers. All in all, it was more of a learning experience than a disapointment, and I’m happy for my friend.

So what does this have to do with the current situation? Well my pigeon friends asked me the same question. I didn’t have an answer for them either. Maybe they were just hungry.

All in all, the opportunity I had could have been lucrative to the point of exceeding what any of us may have expected graduating from what we did. And now I’m not any further ahead of anywhere I’ve been, and hunting for opportunities regardless of field.

So what to do? Well that’s the thing, I don’t know yet, and some of it is fueled by plotting opportunities where I am now, and finding that there could be something there, something just as, if not more valuable than what I could had. The issue? Making it work.

So I will keep making the best out of what I’ve got, to such point that I will end up doing what I did best in school, make friends, work it out, and try my damnedest not to screw it all up.

Alright, so, in an effort to cut down my costs, and since I didn’t feel like actually going to starbucks this morning, I decided to make my own coffee again. Now some of you might remember that I did normally do this, but somewhere down the line I stopped and decided to get starbucks instead.

My answer to this is; Well, my coffee isn’t all that good….

Now, I could go on a rant about how the corporate world has tainted my taste buds, and how I can’t have possibly made the same kind of coffee as I could have, had I not bought their hideously overpriced, over-modified, over-preserved, and over-everything products.

That’s not my issue (kinda), my issue has been narrowed down to two things (I think).

I’ve tried all sorts of blends, and roasts, all of which imparting their varying flavors, all of which, from bold to mild, and the shitty. Yes that’s right, shitty. In general I have a thing for organic coffee, but I still don’t get that bold, rich, strong flavor that I want when I make it at home. So, either I’m not getting the right coffee, which is entirely possible, I haven’t gone to granville, or agro lately enough to grab some good organic coffee. Or, my expresso machine, isn’t doing so good of a job, namely, maybe it’s watering all of my coffee down.

I’m more inclined to believe it is the latter, since my expresso does taste, and feel, watered down. Yes my coffee has a feel. The only way I know of fixing this is to get a new one, but that, due to other, currently undisclosed reasons (ihaznomonies), is not possible. So any ideas?

The culprit in question, (my expresso machine) is…. Apparently non-existent according to google….

Oook, so, It’s a Krups, and it looks a lot like their Gusto line, minus the large water basin in the back.

Ideas?