I am also a fan of Costa Rican coffee. An online site called the
The Coffee Fool sells good Costa Rican Tarrazu, which is a good mellow and earthy coffee and incidentally the only coffee my SO enjoys. I also really dig the Bold coffee from Krispy Kreme, though I have little use for their doughnuts...
I tend to buy whole bean and grind it a few times a week. I just know better than to think I will actually grind coffee (and make that much noise) every morning.
If you like your coffee strong, you might try a french press. You need to have a coarse grind for those, since they use a metal mesh as their filter; and you will definitely have some 'sludge' in the bottom. But about 1 1/2 tbsp coarse ground coffee per cup of hot water, steeped for about 15 minutes, and you've got a good cuppa joe. (Yeah, I like it strong) The only real gripe I have with presses is that I'm too lazy to really clean them properly every day -- therefore, it's drip coffee for me.
Presses, since they don't have a heating element, don't tend to make coffee as bitter as it will get when it's cooked on the drip pot's hot plate. I'd rather have fresh, bad coffee than stale, burnt, good coffee any day.