Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in the Car Getting Coffee is a show I'd never seen until a couple weeks ago. It is a fun show! More importantly, it solidified my license to drink coffee all day long like Jerry and his friends.

No need for this artificial stop time for my coffee-drinking.

Plus, drinking coffee is a genetic disposition. On occasion, I'll have a tea. But then half the time or more I just become sad. Not from the drinking of the tea, but from the decision I made not to drink a coffee.

It's not like I really have anything against tea. In fact I kind of like it, but when push comes to shove, I should have just had another coffee. I like it more.

Over the last few years, however, I've only bought about 5 coffees from a coffee shop. Hard to give them business when they wouldn't let you into their stores for fear of being killed by my breath or something.

Pretty rich for a coffee shop when you put it in perspective.

Many such cases with other restaurants and stores.

Looking back on it, I never liked making coffee all that much. Something I did on occasion, but if I were to get coffee, I'd have someone make it for me and that someone was usually at the place where I bought my joe.

For many years, I'd be on the road early and it was simply part of the routine to go through the take away line and get my cuppa.

I now make 99.5%⁺ of the coffee I drink. I enjoy the experience and the coffee much more than I ever thought possible. We have nearly every device and machine to make coffee so I'm never stuck on just one way to do it.

Having spent an ungodly sum on take-out coffee over the years—but only around 4 bits to 4 bucks at a time—I reasonably justify any coffee device purchase these days. But we're simple folk. We like our routines ... and our coffee.

My espresso habit needs to be nurtured several times per week and the drip coffee...well, it's more palatable than faucet water (because I no longer have the bounty of the Bull Run Watershed at my fingertips). Coffee is a friend.

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As always,

Brian