Nightmare

It is unusual for me to be aware of having experienced a nightmare. This morning's involved my hiding out in a couple of joined rooms in some kind of large building, avoiding roaming entities. I tried barricading the door with different furniture but the result was so ineffective as to seem futile. Eventually I gave in to what seemed inevitable and just opened the door to the corridor. I saw an entity approaching and shouted in despairing horror as I awoke. For some seconds afterward, I saw the entity in the dark of my bedroom, though at least had the presence of mind to regard it as a hallucination.

I am now reminded of a prior dream, not a nightmare, involving barricading and otherwise preparing defenses in a different building, probably a workplace, involving staircases and office furniture and suchlike. In that case, the threat was rather more distant in both space and time.

The grinding of coffee

I am not an aficionado but I know enough about coffee to wish to buy the appropriate grind for my intended usage: for example, when using a French press, I would avoid anything intended for making espressos. I am therefore surprised to be finding that coffee, even as sold from fancy-looking coffee-vending websites, appears not to be sold with useful reference to or choice of grind. Amazon's slightly better in that the customer questions at least have responses from people who already bought it and try to guess the grind. In general, though, the choice seems to be simply between ground or not, which seems very odd to me, especially as decent coffee is not trivially cheap. I had naively expected to be able to select roast, grind, etc., or at least for packets to mention at least some hint toward fineness or coarseness. In reality, vendors seem to aim for a utility grind which they think mostly works for most things, though I am surprised that this approach is deemed tolerable by those who are not just buying the most popular brands off grocery store shelves. Perhaps I am wrong to think that grind matters.