On Thu, February 5, 2015 12:45 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Valeri Galtsev wrote:

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On Thu, February 5, 2015 10:08 am, Always Learning wrote:

<snip> >>> I know, I know, everybody is reasonable, it is just I didn't have my >>> coffee yet... >> >> Your logic is amazingly good for a coffee drinker. >> > No, I wasn't born here though I live here, so I don't take to my heart > any > jokes about people living in one of the colonies you lost ;-) Just > stealing it from some movie I like. Still didn't have chance for my > morning coffee yet (which I deserve: I was working hard all morning). > Don't take me too seriously too, just get nice cup of tea (or wait till > morning for it) ;-)

Get in, 09:00: tea, British-strength*, w/ milk Noon, ditto, w/ lunch. Mid-afternoon, *strong* (not "office") coffee (Cafe Bustelo), vs. the mid-afternoon sleepiness.

Yes. Using my brother's joke, whole life is struggle: before lunch with hunger, after lunch with sleepiness...

Valeri

First full-time job, I went from 6 or so cups of office coffee to my own mint tea in six months.... USan-born.

    mark

• Per George Orwell's mid-forties essay: at least 4-5 min of brewing with

boiling water.**

** From an article in the Guardian a few months ago: "Sorry, Americans, the teabag has to actually be *in* the mug, not merely in the room."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++