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The thought has crossed my mind I will say.

Imagine this crawling across your foot at night while you sit in the dark on your computer. 20220421_185046.mp4

Happy Birthday!

Tried teaching my neighbor's dog not to poop on my lawn. It did not go well. The second one hiding at 9 o'clock was much larger and totally unafraid of me. We parted company acknowledging it would be better not to test each other.

All types. Cucumber Bok Choi... Baechu, Baek, Chonggak, Oi Sabagi... Yum Yum!

Goes great with wine...obviously.

Try your hand at Kimchi and I will be your friend for life.

Me too!

I am guessing that Nate's ride today was cooler than mine.

Happy birthday!

Doug has kitty visitors, we have coyote visitors. At noon no less.

Happy Birthday Doug!

Actually, I like his version better.

I am trying my best to avoid the rabbit hole of sampling different beans from every source that is out there. The choices are endless and way too varied.

Great idea Nate, I thought about that a while back but forgot along the way with all the other things going on here. Seems to me it was a software issue but I can't imagine why just the apps disappeared. I tried reloading Win 10 multiple times which should have yielded some progress but not so. I will pull the HD's later this week and try to see if any data can be recovered. I have not had any success finding anyone with a similar issue due to updates.

Getting better by the day. Niche grind setting dialed in at least for the Marmot beans and the pull protocol is getting refined and better by the day. If nothing else the pucks are coming out picture perfect so there's that. Between the guidance from this thread and Hoffman the Flair learning curve has been quite steep. The only drawback is that I get so excited with my progress that I keep making new cups of espresso back to back and get such a caffeine buzz I would swear someone spiked my morning oat milk with amphetamines. Another drawback is that my 250 Mbps fiber optic speeds are too slow and I am now searching for a provider who can provide Teraflop downloads. I can now attest that I am three times more productive than I was before my Flair 58 purchase.

https://youtu.be/viQx4KDivPY

Looking more like it as I try too trouble shoot. Time to shop for new hardware.

Unable to boot from disk. Tried the sfc/scannow but nothing happened. It appears all apps disappeared from HD. I think I am fooked, probably some hardware issue.

What it's your birthday? Happy Birthday Al!

@Grawk, HemiSam, Covered_Ears, thanks guys. Yes, problem was I changed too many variables at once. Grind was set waaay too fine, overcompensated when changing from pour over to espresso. Did the pre infusion but did not give enough time. Changes will be implemented after my upcoming wine break.

Well it seems microsoft has done it again to me. For years off and on I have had problems whenever microsoft has done an update and it would screw up everything. This time in early February there was some type of update that FUBARed my whole computer. First I suspected it was the NORD vpn update but I deactivated it and there was no difference. The problems are- I cannot access any apps. The startup icon and search bar do not work, When I hit startup button+R, I can see the HDs with some documents but no apps, MS Office, Windows Accessories etc do not appear on the HD tree, When attempting to pull up saved docs I get error messages which makes me think that somehow the links to the apps were corrupted or vanished, What "fixes" I have attempted so far- Since my computer skills are as limited as my woodworking and amp building skills I have just stayed with the basics. Restated the computer, shut the computer down and turned it on, attempted reloading Win 10 Pro from disk. I cannot roll back the computer updates because I am unable to access any apps which limits options for further trouble shooting. Screen shot of error messages - When attempting to pull up old jpgs from my desktop I get this error message causing me to suspect the link to my apps was corrupted. Any ideas or suggestions? Hopefully there is a solution other than doing a complete wipe of the main drive and reinstalling Win 10. BTW when I searched MS they stated that my system was not compatible with Win 11. Thanks for any advice.

OK, starting to dial in the Flair 58 and running into two learning curve issues. First, when pulling shots it is taking way too long 1.3 minutes and way too much force 10psi, to pull a full shot. I think I need to work on the grind setting, perhaps the setting is dialed in too fine. I am trying to figure out the settings as I move the Niche back and forth between pour over and espresso. Second, once I have finished the shot, I still have a puddle of water on the top of the 54mm portafilter's screen. Oddly enough the puck seems to be relatively solid so it must mean I am getting most of the water through the grounds. Any suggestions?

Happy Birthday!