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jhiggins

jhiggins

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Three weeks ago I quit drinking coffee, which was my only source of caffeine. The first three days was sort of my own little Hell. I was so sleepy in the mornings I almost feel asleep on my way into work. My days were a struggle to get through. I couldn't stand the thought of people approaching me with their problems, much less adressing my own. My knifemaking endeavors were in a downward spiral, hopelessly flat-spinning to the bottom. My mind was all drippy and runny and I crashed like a zombie each night for 3 weeks.

Last Friday I broke down and bought a cup of coffee on my way into work. The effects were amazing. I could actually THINK again. My brain felt like a fresh breeze had blown through it. I had energy. I laughed. I had spark.

So do you think I'm addicted? :D
 
Coffee is one of the few true pleasures there are in life! And don't ever drink cheap coffee...life is too short.

The coffee supplied at work used to say on the label "combines flavor with value".....well, any coffee that makes that claim is not good coffee. Might as well say "the beans are raised on the banks of the Rio De CaCa"

I want scores of peasants to die just in the picking of my beans...as they scales the cliffs of some misty Columbian mountaintop!

Yes....I make a helluva cup of coffee.

Don't let the doctors and naysayers tell you it is bad.......going thru life without enjoyment is BAD!!! :barf: :eek:
 
jhiggins said:
Three weeks ago I quit drinking coffee, which was my only source of caffeine. The first three days was sort of my own little Hell. I was so sleepy in the mornings I almost feel asleep on my way into work. My days were a struggle to get through. I couldn't stand the thought of people approaching me with their problems, much less adressing my own. My knifemaking endeavors were in a downward spiral, hopelessly flat-spinning to the bottom. My mind was all drippy and runny and I crashed like a zombie each night for 3 weeks.

Last Friday I broke down and bought a cup of coffee on my way into work. The effects were amazing. I could actually THINK again. My brain felt like a fresh breeze had blown through it. I had energy. I laughed. I had spark.

So do you think I'm addicted? :D
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DUDE; That breeze that went thought your head ear to ear caused one hellava whistle down here. :eek: :eek:
 
Good one, IG! I gotta have my java, or virgins will be sacrificed! I drink it when I get up and got to have it all day until I turn in. Folks in my line of work have a craving for doughnuts and coffee, anyhow. If my thermos runs dry while on patrol, my Lt. always has a good pot of strong coffee brewing at HQ.
 
LOL! IG you definitely are the insult king! It's kind of like you are the Portugese Don Rickles, heehee!

Yeah I got to have my coffee. Hey Greg, I'll holler if we are passing through Ohio. Someday I got to experience your coffee. Sounds delicious!

I remember when I was in the service. I was stationed on this little God-forsaken rock in the middle of the Mediterranean. Some of you may know it as Sardinia. I called it a rock with a seagull terd on it. Argh! Don't get me started... Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. There was this little cafe the Italians ran over at the flightline. We'd launch the planes and while they were in the air for an hour or so we'd go to that little shop and get coffee and pastries. Real good.

They were amazed by us Americans. We'd ask for triple shots of espresso in a big cup with just some milk in it. I'd get that and when I went up for another cup, they'd look at me like I was a crazy-man. Nothing like a few thousand Lyre flashing in their faces to snap them out of it.

Yep, I needs me caffeine, to be sure. I usually only drink Starbucks these days. The Missus gets it at the supermarket.
 
We drink some cheap stuff, McDaniels brand for the sav-a-lot grocery store. It's less than $3 fot the 2lb 2oz can. I cant tell the differance between it and the more xpensive brands. But then again look at who's making the comparison. I like's me coffee
 
If Ben Franklin is correct, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Than coffee can't be that far behind. I raise my mug in tribute.
 
"We'd ask for triple shots of espresso in a big cup with just some milk in it. I'd get that and when I went up for another cup, they'd look at me like I was a crazy-man."

That reminds me of when I was helping to get a cafe opened in Boston. 18 -20 hour days and the only thing functioning properly was the espresso machine. I decided I had a problem when my idea of a cup of coffee was a pint glass of espresso.
 
I'm a coffee nut...I drink it all day long. I especially have a thing for cappucinos..but only if they're well made and use good espresso (otherwise you wind up with a nasty tasting cup of foamy, hot milk).

Well, last weekend I drove down to Blade with Ron Nott (engraver extraordinaire) and Bob Eggerling (no intro needed). The three of us shared a room with Dr. David Darom (Professor, photograper, high art knife collector, and author of the extraordinary High Art Custom Folding Knives "coffee table" book...the fixed blade version is due on press in January). Every morning we had breakfast downstairs in the Sheraton's restaurant...and every morning Bob and I complained about the terrible coffee (Ron drinks de-caf...yukk, and David drinks tea...of popular in Israel).

Seemed like wherever we went, the coffee was pretty crappy all weekend...must be Atlanta's water. :)

On Monday we left on our drive back North to Ron's house in Pennsylvania. Bob and I were so desperate for a decent cup of coffee at the point, we finally convinced Ron to pull off in Harrisonburg, VA. I had remembered from the last Shenendoah Valley Knife Show in Harrisonburg, that there was a Barnes & Noble just off one of the exits...and they serve Starbucks coffee...

Aaaahhh finally... blessed relief! A good cup of java!!! Well worth the time lost on the road.

Blade was great...but it's so nice to be back home with my own coffee maker (we grind the beans fresh every morning). ;)


Dennis Greenbaum

Yeah Baby! :cool:


PS. Did you guys hear about the recent study? According to the study, people who drink coffee all day are supposedly smarter (I'm not making this up!). :D
 
Hey Dennis, good to see you posting here. I usually have to slide on over to CKD for my daily dose of Greenbaum! :D
 
Hey Jeff!

You're right...I really need to come by here more often.

Especially as one of the forums' moderators, I spend so much time over at the CKDF that by the time I log off, it's typically quite late and I'm either dead tired or anxious to get into the shop and spend at least some quality time there.

For the future, I'm gonna make a point of swinging by here more frequently. :)


Dennis Greenbaum

Yeah Baby! :cool:
 
Jeff...stop on in and have a cup.


Mark....here is what you'd look like after a cup of my coffee!
 

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Got to have my coffee in the morning, and anytime I'm in the shop. Doesn't matter if it's 90 degrees out. I don't like fancy-pants stuff, I'm a straight Folgers man.

I know some of you folks have had some of the military coffee that came in a big green can -- that stuff would grow hair on your chest!
 
With a Starbucks located less than two minutes from my house, I'm in there at least once a day...either on the way to the office or on the way home. A few years back, just for the hell of it I tried one of their "fancy-pants" drinks...It was a capuccino...I've been hooked ever since. I still drink several cups of "regular" coffee every day, but I start going through DT's if I go for more than a day or two w/o my capuccino. :)


Dennis Greenbaum

Yeah Baby! :cool:
 
Greg Covington said:
Jeff...stop on in and have a cup.


Mark....here is what you'd look like after a cup of my coffee!
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Greg, how did you know my eyeballs were square?
 
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