A word, here, about the positive but difficult choice. Today is day one without caffeine, and that’s going about as well as you’d think. When I saw my psychiatrist a few weeks ago and we talked about ADHD meds, one of the things he asked me was, “do you drink a lot of coffee?” “I […]
A word, here, about high points. Yesterday was a good day. Nick got an espresso machine, so at some point I had to go over there and try his latte/flat white/whatever. I enjoy milk-and-espresso-based drinks, but honestly if you told me a latte and a flat white and a cappuccino were all the same thing […]
A word, here, about learning from mistakes. My inability to make coffee is becoming a serious problem. You may recall that back at the start of Coronaworld I switched over to fresh ground French press coffee for my caffeination needs, and this worked well for a long time. I’m not one of THOSE coffee people […]
A word, here, about predicting the future. I talked earlier about my coffee consumption and how it has increased. The trouble with that, really the only trouble, is that moving to fresh ground coffee meant I was doing, frankly, a lot of manual labor. Grinding coffee by hand is not work for the faint of […]
A word, here, about coffee. My relationship with caffeine – which has been primarily prosecuted through coffee over the years – is complex. I am not addicted to caffeine; I am dependent on it. There’s an important distinction there that is not semantic. I require regular ingestion of caffeine in order to maintain normal functioning, […]
A word, here, about boredom. Truly being “bored,” I think, is going to be pretty rare in our current situation, at least as we are classically defining it. In pre-smartphone days there were times when you’d just be standing in line wherever and you couldn’t do anything but just stare off into space. Those days […]