Belgians, my mother has always assured me, drink a lot of coffee

[conuly]

And so she does drink a lot of coffee (especially at bedtime), but I've never liked it. It amuses my sister to see me taste a sip of my mother's coffee after heating it, only to make a face and go "Yup, that's sure coffee all right!" But as I explained to her, I want to know it's the right temperature and I don't want to stick a pinky in it, so... not so many options there. (Which she understood, but if I asked her I bet she'd say she still thinks it's funny.)

Now, we don't have a coffee maker. We have a coffee filter cone, and we have a French press, and we boil water to pour over the grounds.

Recently, Jenn has started drinking tea when I boil the water rather than having a cup of coffee. I wouldn't make a cup of tea just for me, but as long as I'm busy boiling the water and all already, might as well! Consequently, my tea consumption has gone way up, and we now have three tea strainers - a dippy one, a froggy that floats on top of the water (!!!), and one that nestles into the cup and is open at the top, which I use because no lid means I can put more leaves in and have a stronger cup of tea.

Turns out the froggy detaches. Nobody told me this. When it fell on the floor one day, I thought I'd killed it.

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Comments

[siderea]

The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn't Get Enough Sleep

Then why the hell am I still so hungry, answer me that.

[conuly]

Because you're a zombie?

[fred_mouse]

That was the one that caught my eye as well. Because I might get enough sleep tonight, but unless I can succeed in retraining my sleep cycle (two chances: Buckley's, and none) I'm going to continue to get no more than two good nights in a standard week for the short to medium future. :{

I wish you many good nights sleep, starting ASAP.

[thewayne]

I'm not a coffee drinker per se, but there are times, like when I'm on a road trip, that I'll be picking up a Starbucks Frappucino. I call this Rocket Fuel. In '16 when I was driving to Omaha solo, I decided on an experiment with breakfast at the Holiday Inn. I put a hot chocolate mix in a cup and added coffee and creamer to it. It was almost good! Yes, it's a mocha, but with the exception of a now non-existent bagel shop in Phoenix in the '90s, I've never found a mocha that I actually considered good. So I was on to something....

I started my new job on the base at the beginning of December. And getting up at 4:15 sucked. So I stopped at the base's minimart. They had hot chocolate. And the same machine dispensed french vanilla cappuccino! So my morning 'wake up' when I get to the base is a quarter to half cappuccino + hot cocoa in a vacuum steel mug that keeps it hot until I finish it. But we don't make coffee at home. My wife occasionally imbibes at the observatory, but considering she'll be leaving today at about 3pm and not getting home until about 8am, she needs it.