I read instruction manuals and watched demonstration videos and began to get a handle on how these appliances work.
I'll just say that the most important detail I've learned so far is to make the espresso coffee with the moka's lid open so that as the coffee begins to come out of the chimney of the pot's upper chamber, I can either reduce the medium low heat or take it off the heat completely.
Doing this, as I understand it, helps keep the espresso from either being too bitter or having a burnt taste.
The decision that lies before me with the frother: Do I prefer foamy frothed milk or less foamy heated milk? I could also make unheated frothy milk.
Trial and error lie ahead!
2. I've been referring to him as Timothy McVey.
Blast it!
His last name is McVeigh.
From this point forward, I will be correct . . . .
In my post yesterday, I referred to Timothy McVeigh's life from childhood to high school graduation as his formative years -- but I might have gotten ahead of myself.
A huge shift in McVeigh's life occurred after he graduated from high school.
One part of this shift was actually a continuation.
His grandfather, Ed McVeigh, had introduced Timothy McVeigh to rifles and rifle shooting when McVeigh was a youngster. Firearms excited McVeigh. He enjoyed shooting inanimate objects and the challenge of becoming more and more proficient at hitting targets.
After high school, Timothy McVeigh voraciously read, first of all, gun magazines. He spent much of the money he made working at Burger King on buying more and more firearms, in part because he also absorbed writings on threats to freedom, protecting and defending freedom (especially the 2nd amendment), and survivalism.
He also read books and was especially influenced by The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel written by William Luther Pierce (under the pseudonym of Andrew Macdonald), a white nationalist. The novel is set in 2099 and depicts the violent overthrow of the U. S. federal government, including a truck bombing of the FBI building, and the systematic extermination of non-whites and Jews.
McVeigh worked as an armed driver of an armored car, began to see more of the world outside the small rural western New York area he grew up in, and decided to join the army.
He wanted to be an infantry soldier. The Army's copious supply of weaponry excited him and he became a dedicated, hard working, and ambitious model soldier.
As I put down the book American Terrorist and went to sleep, McVeigh had just arrived in Iraq and I'm about to read about his experience as a soldier in the Gulf War.
I am thinking that yesterday when I referred to McVeigh's life from birth to high school as his formative years, I misused the word "formative". His views of the world and his sense of idealism around freedom, honesty, integrity, and the corrupted state of the world, particularly the USA, really took shape in his late teens and early twenties.
3. I took a break from Italian coffee and Timothy McVeigh this afternoon and tried to create a sufficiently lit environment in the room Copper and I occupy together to possibly shoot some decent photographs of Copper. I thought my success was mixed. Here are a couple of examples. See what you think:
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