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Coffee Coffee Coffee

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited June 2012
It's so good!!!!!
Oh lord
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  • MatthewMatthew
    Yeah! I'm drinking hot hot coffee in my ac cold office while outside it is reaching that 100° high. I feel totally juiced.
  • MatthewMatthew
    My brain is aeropressed
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    It makes me feel as powerful as the Lord
  • 12341234
    I made some coffee at home this morning and thought I was being effecient when I turned on the electric kettle when I jumped into the shower. Fast forward to end of the shower... the water was no longer boiling hot... but the kettle was still in "COOL DOWN" mode so it wouldn't reheat yet. So I made coffee that wasn't quite hot enough. AND IT STILL RULED SO HARD. I'm drinking this coffee that Alex brought me from England (no, it's not tea).
  • curtcurt
    I got one of these for my birthday a while back: http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-CPK-17-PerfecTemp-1-7-Liter-Stainless/dp/B003KYSLNQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1340299013&sr=8-3&keywords=electric+kettle

    Heats the water to specified temp (several settings for different teas and french press, plus boil), then keeps it there. It's perfect for heating water and showering at the same time.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    This morning I noticed that people seemed extra rascally. The sun solstice seems to bring the ego to its own peak, resulting in a diffuse rascallyness/edginess/orneriness of the populace.

    Has anyone else noticed this?
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Haven't interacted with any people yet today.
  • 12341234
    I think our celebration last night helped with rascalness. (Also, we were all talking today about the fire-making skills of Ms. Owlface.)
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    haha, secret pyromaniac?
  • NickNick
    you guys i am ready for more coffee!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    today
    2 cups coffee (8 oz Stumptown, 8 oz office cafe)
    2 cups green tea
    feel the burn*





    *Sally's motto
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    One beautifully hand-crafted 12 oz. Americano from Fresh Pot to gird my loins for the commute.

    Upon arrival at the spice mines: one decent shot from the office coffee stand to stiffen the dregs.

    A cup of sludge from the break room pot to rouse a sleepy post-lunch brain.

    Just now: Another cup o' sludge with a bit of sugar to slay the afternoon nap dragon.

    Might try a cup of iced as an aperitif if Tara has any left in the fridge when I get home.

    Finally, a digestif from the french press to keep the evening mind sharp.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    7:45am - 8oz Americano at Sterling Coffee Roasters
    12pm - PG Tips English tea with a splash of milk
    3pm - 10oz (or so) Americano, self-made at work
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    you late-day coffee drinkers! I am in awe. How do you sleep?

    If I have coffee post noon I am a WRECK

    I wish I could have it
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Building a fire is all about oxygen and architecture, and thinking several steps ahead to where the wood is going to settle once the smaller pieces underneath crumble.

    It's my best pagan engineering skill!
    I got soot on my face like a little old urchin.
    Drank no coffee today, I am almost totally off of it because it gives me the heebie jeebies.
    :(
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I can't do it after 5pm, or I can't sleep until 2 or 3am. 4pm is iffy. I usually try not to drink it later than 4pm, unless I wanna party all night.
  • 12341234
    PARTY ALL NIGHT!
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Just drank some coffee at 9pm.

    I feel great and I promise I could fall asleep in the next hour.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    FaceTweet really showed his true Merrill spirit with his post. Could have been written by Mike.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Now that I think of it, I actually had a small iced coffee in the late afternoon before I transformed into FireStarter... I think it helped my singular, dog-like focus on the task.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    OK FINE

    I JUST GOT AN AMERICANO

    THIS IS PEER PRESSURE, YOU GUYS
  • 12341234
    Watch out! She's gonna start burning stuff!
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Please give me a pile of sticks, thank you.
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    It didn't work- did not feel like a powerful firestarter.

    Felt jittery skittery and tired.

    My coffee was broken!
  • NickNick
    Coffee + Doughnut late last night.
    no jitters. fell right asleep.
    BUT
    had to pee twice!
  • 12341234
    Woke up late, drank coffee too fast. But it felt great.
  • LelandLeland
    Early evening Mr. Coffee. Family weekend. It is different, right? 20 minutes in and I'm feeling caffeine burn in my wrists and face. I can do this without becoming violent.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Honestly, tea is finally not working at all for me. I'm probably going to relapse. There are a lot of side effects I don't like with coffee, but I hate feeling like I never get "above the clouds" in my brain every day.
  • LelandLeland
    If you have a health plan, I say go for 10mgs of amphetamine salts once or twice a day.
  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    It is so cool our brains have receptors for stuffs we seek.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I do not have a health plan and no one ever has any spare salts. :(
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I had a latte today. Four hours later I feel dizzy even after a snack. This stuff is poison!
  • 12341234
    edited June 2012
    I just made an evening cup. So tired today!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Big ups to my Salt Fairy who has given me an opportunity to experience a different life for a few days. I'll report back after I start the experiment.
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    ZUCKERBURG DONT TURN INTO A FLESH EATING ZOMBIE WITH DEM SALTS, MANG
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    SO STOKED whenever an avowed "oh I switched to tea it's so much better blah blah blah" person publicly admits it's not actually working!!!!!!!

    I've seen it happen so many times and each time I am filled with self-righteous glee. Oh yeah, you think it's not working, really? Huh, maybe that's because TEA IS DUMB.

    GET BACK IN THE CLUB ZUCKERBURG
    YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    This morning I was nodding off on the bus and nearly falling in to seats next to me
    COF me
  • 12341234
    Who all works downtown? We should all meet up for coffee some morning... like Toastmasters. Who has to be at work the earliest?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I would love that if we could gang up so early!!

    I have to catch the 8 at NW 5th and Davis at 8:10am : - )
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I get to work at NW 8th and Glisan at 8:15am, could meet for coffee at 7:30 or even 7?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Speaking of coffee, I'm drinking my yearly mocha - a triple 12oz mocha - that I got for free because of my Nuvrei loyalty punch card!
  • 12341234
    Don't get tricked into changing your routine Alex. That mocha will destroy you!
  • 12341234
    What about a 7:30 coffee at Barista? is there good coffee closer to that bus stop?

    Where is Owlface? She should be getting in on this. Also, those of you without summer jobs... GET UP AND JOIN IN.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Barista might be kind of hard for me to hoof it to. What about Spella on 5th and Alder, or Public Domain on Alder & Broadway?
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Alex, what do you get at Nuvrei? It is the best bakery!! I love marzipan croissant and chewie salty chocolate cookie with walnut.
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    I get coffee at Nuvrei because they have Coava there!

    In terms of food - sometimes bagels, sometimes bagels with salmon, and sometimes that insane salmon/smoked cheddar pretzel.

    I don't know what the coffee is like at Bowery, but that might be a cool place to meet? http://bowerybagels.com/
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    The Bowery looks awesome!!!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    FEEL THE DEW!

    In yr pits
    Cuz yr sweatn
    Cuz caffein make u feel good
  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Owlface does not get to work until 9, and it would take a TSUNAMI to get me downtown at 7 am!!!

    It almost sounds really fun.... until, it doesn't.

    PS- I am one of those people who prefers tea to coffee and I'll never go back on it, so eat my tea-leaf dust, Sharky!!!!!!!!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited June 2012
    Yeah they are apples and oranges. I decree that YT is ignorant of tea.

    The first cup moistens my lips and throat;

    The second cup breaks my loneliness;

    The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs;

    The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified;

    The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.

    The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.

    Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

    ~Lu T’ung

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