I used to be a Breville man, pressing the tamper, admiring the crema, steaming the milk, even roasted my own beans there for a while. All that gear went with my ex. I’m more a tea drinker now.

Back in the day, a C program to handle estimating procurement costs for complex government contracts. We had to figure out the code and write in in a different language. It was just one giant loop, no functions, with variables named V1, V2, V3, etc. Hundreds and hundreds of them. I still shudder at the horror of it all.