Posts made by tenuin

This months progress pics.. I find myself in a bit of a slump and kinda looking forward to January and "getting" to wear something else.. i miss the feeling of a nice soft flannel

@Denimhead-0 I love the cap!

Been feeling rather heavy today..

Oh neat, i didn't know you carried these. They are damn near indestructible.

@Giles might sound weird, but i've had success opening a caseback with a big fat ball of duct tape, or a rubber ball. Salt water is pretty corrosive, getting the moisture out sooner would be better than later. In case the movement fails, a replacement movement (ref V175) should be about a hundred quid or so and can be done by pretty much any watchmaker. No idea about the solar cells in the dial, and how well they hold up to water..

@havingmysay said in Wake Up and Coffee:

@tenuin I had the Fermentation Kit from Hex Roasters out of Charlotte, NC. My order of preference was 3 2 4 1.

I got mine through a roaster local to me in Berlin. Apparently they messed up a bunch of orders, as on the day I received the kit, i also got an email that I would be refunded because the package could not be delivered.. reached out to them to let them know I did indeed receive it. And just today I got another email saying they are going to have a re-run because of some technical problems...

Order of preference 2 3 4 1, but it was really pretty close. I think my expectation was also a little different. I have been really into Ombligon by Jhoan Vergara, and natural and honey processed coffees in general for a while. The Ombligon has undergone some crazy 80 hour fermentation process that genuinely makes it taste like cherry cola. I was kinda expecting that they would pick some wildly different processes to really make the effects processing has apparent. I did not expect things to be this subtle and similar.

But then, the point they raised about repeatability and sustainable business practices make a lot of sense too, and from what I can tell, James is not the type to chase the latest trends..

wash 3 done, i think this will be the last before the finale. Its been getting daily wear again since it cooled down and it shows i think.

I need to get better at taking pictures.

There was a yt-online-live-coffee-tasting thing on this weekend run on James Hoffman's channel. First time I've done a proper cupping, and I have to say it was really really hard. Much harder than expected. Still enjoyable but not quite what I had been hoping for in terms of "flavour experience".

My A-A watch cap and scarf are top notch. I still want to get a quarter zip eventually, but probably not this year. I need a new winter jacket and that'll do some decent damage to the clothing fund.

@WhiskeySandwich

Look into directional freezing. You'll need a fair bit of freezer space for this. Basically get a cooler that's insulated from 5 sides and open on top, fill it with water and freeze. It'll freeze from the top down (the " directional" part of directional freezing) and push impurities to the bottom as it does. Once you take out the whole block of ice, you'll have a clear top half and a cloudy bottom half

I have just been searching for a vest for layering. Nothing fancy, canvas, maybe waxed, ideally with a bit of a lining for warmth. And I noticed how some shops and "influencers" edit the absolute bejeesus out of their pictures so that it becomes almost impossible to tell what color the garment you are looking at even is.

In this case, the same exact item. In one guys instagram outfit post it appeared to be a nice warm golden brown similar to the Iron Heart 17oz duck canvas. And in the store listing the photos were so desaturated that the vest looked more beige than brown. It took forever to find a normal image that showed what I can reasonably expect the vest to look like

Its not the first time I noticed it but this time it was really driving me up the wall.. I like to search for stuff via image search as it tends to give a broad range of styles and fits from a bunch of different shops. But I also have a list of places where, if I see their pictures in the results, I will just ignore them because I know the pictures are about as far removed from reality as they can get away with. I don't even get the end game. If I order something that is being advertised as vibrant bottle green but I receive something in a muted olive tone that I am not looking for, everybody in this transaction loses. I can kind of get why influencers do it, even if it is disingenuous, but why a shop trying to make a sale and a satisfied customer does this is beyond me..

In any case, I ordered that vest because it was only one of two articles that more or less fit what I was looking for. But I am still not sure what color I will actually receive in the end.

Not much progress to report this month. It's been cooling off significantly so my 33 has been getting much more wear time again

The one vest I would cop immediately would be an over engineered Carhartt Montana-alike.

Picture off the Internet of someone more handsome, rugged and stylish than myself.

@Giles said in Random Announcements:

@forum - Looking at you (well, us).....

hmm, coffee, watches, denim... its like the first 30 seconds are based on my personal life in particular..

@Bridger I once (i want to say somewhere around 2009-2011 or so) went to Edinburgh at the end of October for a Cannibal Corpse show with Dying Fetus opening. Mostly went for Fetus as I had seen CC a load of times before but never Fetus..

Halloween is not a thing in Germany so it wasn't at all on my radar, but it very much is in Scotland. The show was great, but it was made extra memorable because more than half of the audience was in costume. Super fun night.

Oh, and bad names.. Song 5 on Killing on Adrenaline is particularly disturbing..

Long time since I checked in here. I've not worn my 33-T as much in the past 2 months or so, its been often way too warm. Still the only layer piece I am wearing in the evening or when weather permits.

Had the second wash about a month ago after it soaked up some pork juice during a supply run for a BBQ. The packaging ripped and sept into the backpack, shirt and t-shirt I was wearing. Luckily, didn't leave any stains..

Day 98 on my 33-T. I was aiming for 100 days before the first wash, but the submission deadline for the next check if of the Redline Rally is coming up and I wanted to get in a wash before that

Pre wash:

I went with my usual approach. 50C hand wash followed by a 30c / 30 min / no spin machine cycle. I have literally never seen a garment lose so much indigo on first soak or wash.. absolutely crazy...



Luckily the weather was nice today, and I was able to hang it to dry on the balcony and wear it again in the afternoon. I love how its evolved, and how the wash has brought out the highlights that were starting to show

The hot hand wash has brought the shirt in exactly as I had hoped. It was a bit baggy on me before but feels absolutely perfect now.

cross post from RR Y4

https://forum.ironheart.co.uk//post/956313

Not exactly metal, but one of my favourite albums, and has been covered many many times by metal bands, so by some degree of separation, i still think this belongs here. Outsider, psych rock legend and tragic figure.

33-T and a 260somethingorother tee