I have this blog see, well obviously you do otherwise you would either be insane or… well brain dead. I never consider myself verbose in fact quite the contrary so I struggle to find something interesting I want to say that hasn’t been said by someone else and that I truly believe. So instead I will try and write about things a little more mundane but closer to my heart, today you will see 2 such articles, this one pretending to be from last week, in the vein hope you don’t notice. I would say damn but that would just be way too obvious. 

 How to make a good cup of coffee… and then some. 

 Over the years I have been given hellish cups of java, either to weak or so strong the spoon floats ( I am not joking my other half loves to use half and half when it comes to killing me making me a cuppa)In order to reduce the amount of deaths from caffeine overdose ( I reckon i’ve been close a few times, caffeine addiction is no laughing matter)  

 I will provide a simple set of rules on making this drink. 

1.  Don’t use instant. (not unless you like the taste of gravel and tar)
2. When filling your cafétier fill using the bottom by a bout 1 cm or just under half an inch, for you god fearing monarchists.
3. Boil the kettle allow the water to stop bubbling then poor immediatly
4. Make sure the ground beans are mixed well in the water.
5. Leave for at least 5 minutes, I prefer 10/15
6. Push the cafétier plunger down at the rate of 1cm every 2 seconds.
7. Drink.
8. Put the coffee back in the fridge (sealed) otherwise the cupboard goblins will smell it and then piss in it.

I am a big fan of DIY whether it comes to software or buildings. The ability to learn by doing rather than the tedious environment of a lecture theater, or the dry text of a technical book; is something I deeply appreciate.

I have spent the past 15 months redecorating the flat, in the manner only I seem to manage which is somewhat overboard with big plans and big ideas and little appreciation for the time it takes. A trait I have spent several years reigning in.

Why try and muffle this part of me? It is certainly not by choice alone. Dreamers that do are what makes the world great, the people behind every invention, the activists, the progressive liberalists, the spread of atheism. People that will not and can not stay down, refusing to bow heads to religious dogma or bureaucratic unimaginative morons who run our daily lives.

However big ideas are time consuming, they by definition alone are poorly planned and difficult to implement. Agile had a solution, split down this big idea into smaller more manageable ones. The problem is the big idea gets lost in all the detail, the vision goes out the window and the idea is no longer fun for the idealist but fun for the bureaucratic.

Is there a real happy medium? probably not, the 2 sides of humanity will constantly pull and push at each other, even within ourselves, repressing and ridiculing every idea, yawning and rebelling against every decision.

The only antidote is confidence, however that comes with its own problems, bad decisions can lead to the implementation of bad ideas, and bad ideas are brought forward by bad decisions. This is the supposed reason for elections and not referendum, but that stems from the bad idea that people generally make bad decisions.

I have no solution just a dilemma put to the world.