I'm
beanbrain.
I love coffee.
When I grind my beans and drink them,
they go straight to my brain,
hence the name.
Adel,
I think you and I like our coffee similar ways!
I almost always drink it black, Turkish,
although recently,
I've been really enjoying it with just a small dallop of creamed honey.
No sugar, no milk.
Light roast is my favorite,
but a shop near me sells a dark that's very rich.
How did you find this place?
I was dumpster diving for samples on the Internet Archive,
when I came across the 90s CDs Sample Pack.
That was 2 years ago, thereabouts.
I have been a habitual lurker of the most extreme,
but I learned through trial and error
that family and community is actually a wonderful thing when it's healthy,
so I've made socializing as my self-improvement homework,
and decided to post and talk to people and touch grass and stuff.
Hobbies and other things you enjoy?
I enjoy coffee.
I also enjoy making music
(it was how I found this place, after all)
but I haven't produced anything in a long while.
I've been performing live a lot.
I sang in 4 concerts
with a semi-professional choir from my local college
over the past year,
and at mass on about 40 weeks out of the year with my local church.
And a community theater production of Ragtime, as well.
When I get tired of music,
I will work on software,
which is part autodidactic exercise,
and part creative endeavour.
Sometimes, I think I learn more about myself from writing code,
than I do about the computer.
Right now,
it feels like I've written more lines of bash and tcl than anything else,
just in the last few months since I distrohopped to void
and changed my wm to openbox.
That's probably not a fact;
I'm just sick of bash :/
I've been using linux exclusively
for well over 10 years now,
and ricing,
and periodically redefining
how I interact with my computer
are perennial hobbies of mine.
Besides music and software,
I like to read and write stories and poetry.
I like ghosts and paranormal, vampires, science fiction.
I set a goal for this week
of writing some flash fiction
or short story to be published by the end of the week
(actually, this post is a healthy diversion from that).
Writing has always been a visual game for me,
and besides making words,
I also make character and landscape sketches.
A few years ago,
I scripted, thumbed, and roughed my own comic for print,
but I out-paced myself and burned out bad.
I still haven't gathered the courage to return to comics.
I am also learning Russian.
The goal is to become fluent enough
to read one author in particular,
Александр Тюрин (Alexander Tyurin).
I found him through a deep dive on cyberpunk.ru one night,
around the time I first found comfybox.
I don't remember exactly what led me there,
but the English translation of his page
(
www.rusf.ru/english/tyurin)
and the synopses of his books
really piqued my interest.
Once I can read though,
I see no reason to stop with him,
and the language will be useful besides.
Coffee （ꉺ౪ꉺ）
...and the little cakes that go with it.
Tea is nice, too;
my favorite tea is jasmine.
My favorite real food-food is probably ramen.
I once spent a whole year learning to make my own.
I will cook spicy beans,
and use the excess, cooked water
as the base for a broth,
pan sear some peanuts,
then sautée garlic and ginger
in a wok with a splash of sesame oil,
add mushrooms, vegetables,
then the rest of the kitchen sink.
Finally, the broth,
simmer until everything's happy and warm together.
Add the noodles,
and a soft-boiled egg,
sliced in half,
and some green onions as garnish.
I've now started making my own noodles, too.
It's not that difficult;
just flour, salt, egg, oil, water,
beat together,
and pull into a long rope,
fold over,
rinse and repeat until it's elastic,
boil, and serve.
It's a lot of work to make though,
so I don't have it that often.
Usually, I just make a stir-fry of whatever's in the fridge
and/or pantry,
sometimes a black bean or portabella burger,
or just plain 'ol oatmeal,
if I'm feeling very lazy.
Savory oatmeal's the best:
salt and pepper and crack an egg on top.
Or grits.
With butter.
I'm hungry now.
current rice & what I'm listening to as I write this
dirty
a random page from my notebook
