I think my morning sunrise is an au lait color.

As good of a deal as it is to buy a half pound of coffee at Peets when I'm dragged out there by the coffee woman, because then I get a free coffee included, there is something deeply satisfying about having the right coffee.

This morning I opened the hermetically sealed bag from Longbottom Coffee and even though this isn't my usual flavor (I try to be adventurous, buying 1 of something else every once in a while.) it's so vastly superior to the Peets that I can't imagine why I bothered buying from anywhere else.

This coffee, even in the not-the-best blend, is rich, smooth, and nuanced. It's got the kind of complexity that goes extraordinarily well with milk and none of the harshness that requires it. I do not have an upset stomach if I drink a whole pot by myself. (I can't always finish my cup of the Peets the same day without Tums.) I'm also using about half as much ground coffee to get the same brewed strength because this is just better coffee.

The friend who turned me on to the Longbottom people has since left my life but I will continue to appreciate that recommendation even though we're no longer close.

If you're a coffee person, and especially if you like your coffee with milk, the Black Gold blend is my favorite. I've talked to some of the people who work there and they have different preferences being the non-milk kinds of coffee-drinkers.

ps. the icon isn't cappuccino art, it's yogurt art, but I did do it myself. Yogurt allows for slower drawing and going back to find a camera because it doesn't fade into the base liquid on its own.

Low Calibre

I have a stupid question about Calibre.

Setting aside the fact that it seems incredibly unstable since it incremented versions twice since I got my first install done like last week.

Setting aside the stuff I didn't know it did, like aggregate news feeds (and um, why? doesn't everyone already have something else that's doing that, and better?)

What is this going to do for me? Ok, sure, I can see that if I run all my k-books through it, I won't have to worry about Amazon coming and taking them away [they're coming to take me away, ha ha]. But eh, most of this stuff I don't care if they took it all back and Amazon did apologize profusely for the problem when it happened. Now they send an email asking if you want an updated copy of something. (Which was a real pain because you have to be able to reply from exactly the address which received the mail and we'd been forwarding copies around.)

But as far as I can tell there's no convenient way to port a fanfic to my Kindle. Sure if it's complete and from Petulant Poetess, I can pick "print whole story" and save that HTML file which would probably not suck to convert. But then I have to port it to the Kindle either via the cord or by emailing it from an approved address. I guess now that Amazon has that cloud shit, I could upload it there but I don't think my Kindle speaks cloud yet. I'll check. Certainly that would have been a worthy Calibre update if it works--- although considering I don't want to give Calibre my email password, it would have to upload just using the regular browser-owned login cookies because I'm surely not giving Calibre my Amazon password.

But corrvin rec'd a gigantic ffn fic (which was LM/HG and mostly non-suck as long as you didn't think too hard). It was 96 chapters. And you know how much dreck fanfiction.net adds to their content framing. I would have much rather read that lying on my bed, via Kindle. But there isn't an obvious way to grab all chapters of a fic, strip out the crud, then convert to mobi, then download to the Kindle.

So... I'm thinking this Calibre stuff isn't going to help me much. I guess if I bought content elsewhere, then I could go through all those machinations in order to get that content onto my Kindle. It seems pretty unlikely that somewhere else would have a price so much better that it would be worth 20 minutes of my time compared to just buying it from Amazon.

But I do read a LOT of fic and I would like to be able to read it somewhere other than at my desk.

I guess Calibre might be useful, but the program is worried about fetching news feeds instead of having something like wget. Stupid people not solving problems only I have.