Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ Runuary day fifteen
Very nearly half way through Runuary / Dryanuary then. Yesterday I noticed the not drinking the most. Clare off to bed early because of getting up early, it's her four long days in a row shift right now. I had time to myself and was going to set up and watch more of The Umbrella Academy1 but I just couldn't be bothered. If I'd had a beer or a wine that would have seen me through, but instead I just went to bed too. I slept mostly through too about eleven hours.
This morning only had to take T2 round a friend's house, a last minute organised play date. I got today's 5km in before taking him round, just about. I treadmilled it, and was just sat on the stairs getting my breath back (I did that last 1km at top speed) when he was getting ready to go. "You can't go out out like that, put a top on" he says, which is funny as he's always sat round the house with no top on. T1 is sat here gaming, I'm telling him he will get bored doing that and I'm doing him a favour making him stop soon. He does not believe me.
I'm making big changes in the world of coffee:
| date | ⚙️2 | ⏱ 3 | ⚖️4 | ☕️5 | ⏱6 | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-15 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 60 | 27 | Big old tweak yesterday, increasing express time, made an ultra lungo. Tomorrow grind the coffee smaller. |
| 2023-01-13 | 17 | 8 | 20 | 46 | 20 | Good crema again, good coffee. But should I tweak the timer, and if so how?? |
| 2023-01-13 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 48 | 20 | Good crema, back to the safety of the dual wall filter. |
| 2023-01-13 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 53 | 15 | Disaster, single wall filter, weak looking coffee no crema, poured away. |
| 2023-01-12 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 46 | 23 | Ratio 2.7:1 and Tim7 says between 2 and 3 is actually ok for espresso so I'm ok. |
| 2023-01-11 | 16 | 8 | 17 | 45 | 23 | Coffee in a hurry on the way to work. |
| 2023-01-10 | 16 | 8 | 17.5 | 45 | 22 | No razor again. Still good, but still not 2:1 ratio. |
| 2023-01-10 | 14 | 8 | 17 | 47 | 24 | No razor again. Still good, but still not 2:1 ratio. |
| 2023-01-09 | 14 | 8.5 | 18.5 | 49 | 24 | Did not use the "razor" to scrape off excess coffee, in case I'm losing coffee grounds unneccessarily. Not much difference. |
I have been trying to get to the 2:1 ratio but expert Tim found a thing for me that says between 2:1 and 3:1 is normal for espresso so I'm sticking with that. Today's was 4:1 though, I have gone too far.
Trimming historical results here just keeping a week's worth of data.
Coffee Gator scales1 for weighing.
Today in 1997 I was on tour! Doing tech support for the NME on the NME Brat Bus Tour, helping with live updates on the web in the days before such things were commonplace. Either today was Manchester and tomorrow was Leeds, or vice versa, I can't remember. The bands were not memorable either. I remember who they were but they have not really stood the test of time.
I must try and achieve something with the rest of my day.
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- grind size
- grind time (seconds)
- ground coffee (grammes)
- espresso expressed (grammes)
- express time (seconds)
- Espresso-enthusiasto work buddy.
5k: Five km, just over three miles to you.
dryanuary: Not drinking for the month of January.
runuary: Running at least 5k every day for all of January.