{"id":8044,"date":"2026-02-15T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:15:58","slug":"caffeinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=8044","title":{"rendered":"Caffeinated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5590.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5590.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5590-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Coffee roasting, oui, oui!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lovely French ambassador, his wife, and an old friend of theirs came for a coffee roasting demo and breakfast yesterday morning. We had a good time visiting with them, and folks always seem to enjoy watching a roasting session and then drinking really good coffee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week was pretty low key. I watched some of the Olympics, mostly ice skating and some hockey (who knew I liked hockey?). I took time out from sports to watch the House DHS Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday, and to make a couple of runs to the grocery store. There\u2019s only one kind of fresh pasteurized milk here, and it\u2019s a mystery to me (and the grocery store, apparently) when it gets restocked. I don\u2019t mind using \u201cshelf milk\u201d (UHT milk) for daily coffee and yogurt-making, but you really need fresh milk to make a good latte for the weekend. The fresh milk comes in glass, recyclable bottles, which is nice. It\u2019s super-expensive (like most things here), but worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and I finished Ken Burns\u2019 \u201cThe American Revolution\u201d (we won!) and really enjoyed it \u2014 and we learned so much that we never learned in school (or learned and forgot?). We also have kept up with episodes of \u201cShrinking\u201d and  \u201cHijacked,\u201d and we watched the original Kurt Russell version of \u201cMiracle,\u201d about the 1980s US men\u2019s hockey Olympic team. We have started a sort of hokey but sweet police show set in Ireland called \u201cHope Street.\u201d (If anyone has TV recommendations, please let us know!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mom would have been 101 this past Friday. I can\u2019t believe she\u2019s been gone 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"228\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Laura-by-menos-room-door-2_Original.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Laura-by-menos-room-door-2_Original.jpeg 228w, https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Laura-by-menos-room-door-2_Original-214x300.jpeg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely French ambassador, his wife, and an old friend of theirs came for a coffee roasting demo and breakfast yesterday morning. We had a good time visiting with them, and folks always seem to enjoy watching a roasting session and then drinking really good coffee! This week was pretty low key. I watched some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}