I learnt recently that the reason we are so obsessive and ritualistic about coffee is because it is an addiction. So like any class A drug we become fraught with the detail, whether it's a double shot, extra hot, a little extra hot water it really matters.
As for me it has to be small, don't ever super size my coffee. My preference is for a Hobbs house bakery cafe au lait, half water, half milk on top of a illy double espresso in a small cup of course. The question is how to reiterate this at home. Our well loved francis francis machine has given up on us, so in the meanwhile it's back to the old school stove top Italian espresso pot and milk frothed on the machine for babochinos all round. That's unless Tom's at home and we can enjoy the mastery of chemex coffee as taught to him by the masters themselves colonna and small.