I'm two coffee behind this morning so I have nothing sarcastic to say. It's been a pleasure Tom and I consider it a personal highlight to have met you and many others mentioned above in person two summers ago.

I think, JP, we should allow the others to attend the concert as special guests. Except maybe for Charles. I want him there but I don't want to see him arrested for breaching his restraining order to not be in the same state as Regina. Slurp. Ahhhhh. First sip of coffee of the day.

So we'll never see him in Saskatchewan, eh?

Yeah, I know: state/province. And, it was rotten low lying fruit. Maybe I need more coffee too.

HAH! I have ALL of you beat!!!!!

I registered on 2/19/47. Aaaaaah Ha Ha!!







Oops - that's my birthday.


Looks like I was minted here in 2004.

Not that I want to hijack this thread but since coffee was mentioned, I recently became very interested in brewing a good cup. We are in the middle of kitchen renos (wife's idea, not mine, ha!) so I used it as an excuse to buy good new coffee gear.

This is what I got:

http://www.frcndigital.com/coffee/brazen.html

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/nespresso-pixie-espresso-maker/

http://www.costco.ca/Espressione-Professional-Conical-Burr-Coffee-Grinder.product.10338549.html

I thought that cigar, wine & audio snobs were over the top; however, I found a review of my favourite Nespresso Pixie coffee capsule. I'm almost embarrassed to drink it after reading this:

Ristretto Espresso Capsule (Black):

Sweet-toned, lush aroma, with clear chocolate notes and hints of leather, fruit and flowers. In the small cup heavy body with a creamy though slightly rough mouthfeel, and deep, leather and fir-toned, cocoaish chocolate smoothing and sweetening in a long, rich finish. Good presence and body in two parts milk, but remains rather stolid, not quite fully opening and blooming.

This is about coffee?? I would never have thought, ha!

I make a capucchino every evening as a desert coffee after supper with this wonderful little Pixie machine (made in Switzerland for a change!). It is so quick & easy & turns out like this:



TAM

Ken, do you have my addess?

The supersecret mail doesn't use addresses. You would know that if you were worthy.

It would be no surprise to anyone to find I wasn't worthy.

Damn, I blew the big speech I had planned for the 10K, didn't I?

Yup.

Hey, congrats, Mark!

I always knew you could do 10K!

Cheers, brother. It's only fitting that - for your 10,000th post - you resisted the urge to actually add value.