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Fractal Manipulation...full view if you are compelled too...if i am completely honest, coffee is my only addiction...if I don't have one within an hour or two of waking up, I generally get a nasty headache...I like mine black, with a big spoonful of turbinado sugar... but demerara or even regular sugar will do in a pinch...I have an expensive coffee maker, and grinder, and I only buy whole beans, kept at room temperature, but in an airtight container...i pre-warm the carafe and mug with hot water, and use only the coldest of water to start with...i don't like it too strong, but I'd rather it be too strong than too weak...I drink two or three in the morning...and maybe one at dinner, if I am out at a restaurant, and I know they have good coffee...for special occasions i will get out one of my french presses (a one-cupper and a two-cupper) and treat myself to an extra lift!
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very nice manip!!!
...mmmmmmm
dark Sumatran roast for me...
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I haven't had Sumatran in a while. Now, you've got me interested....
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I love coffee. My favorite is coffee from Yemen. My ex-husband brought me some from Egypt the first time he went there for business. The vendor in the souk mixed the dark roasted beans and light before anyone could stop him. Serendipitous! The coffee doesn't smell like usual coffee when being ground. (We joked that perhaps the beans passed through camels first ala civet cat.) Anyhow, the coffee tastes like the best coffee smells. I did find it on Amazon.
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Very nice. It's good you kind find the stuff online. There is a place in Toronto i order from every once in a while that gets some great beans - and just like you say, they don't look or smell like typical coffee beans - but oh when they are ground up!! But expensive - that's why it's only a once in a while thing for me!
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So expensive but so good. I wait for very special occasions that coincide with windfalls of cash. It is also on my gift list just so my daughters don't get to say that they don't know what to get me. The good thing is that my older daughter likes it as much as I do. ..Or is that a bad thing? No, it tastes even better shared though it goes twice as fast. Sigh.
I hope you gig went well.
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Haha. Thanks for asking. The gig went extremely well. Not a huge crowd, but no one left, and the bar wants us back asap!!
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Hopefully that means an income doing what you really love doing. Plus, let's hear it for word of mouth so crowds get bigger but not so big as to ruin the interaction between you and the audience. If that matters. Hmm. I would think it does from and audience member point of view. I never had the shoe on the other foot.
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Bigger crowds are better. Yes. Hopefully the word gets around when we go back. The energy is amazing when the audience is into what you are doing. You ride a high all night long, and then, the long ride home is just awful. Ears ringing from loud amps. And your whole body is tired - even your ears! Yes. Ears. I know of no other job (and i have done many) where you have to use your ears so much, and on that ride home, you want nothing but silence! Weird, eh?
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Not weird at all. I started using earplugs years ago to filter out the people sounds from the music. Actually, it was at a Beatles concert at Red Rocks, Colorado. I was having a hard time hearing the music (or myself think) with everyone screaming so I put my fingers in my ears and could hear the music. I used earplugs at swim meets so I could hear the announcements. As for tired ears, it is like when your young children talk at you nonstop for hours and you think your ears will start bleeding. Even though you love them, you just want to sit in the velvety quiet. I fully understand.
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I couldn't survive without coffee, although my palate is not very discerning - freeze-dried will do, but it has to be a decent brand like Nescafe etc.
I do have a weird habit, though. I make a cup just before I go to bed, put it on the bedside table and drink it cold when I wake up in the morning. Sets me up for the day, that
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OK, yeah, that is just plain weird...but like some many other things, you cannot argue someones tastes and likes and dislikes. I absolutely hate cold coffee or coffee that has sat, even in an airtight carafe, for more than 30 mins or so. But to each their own i say! Thanks for sharing this habit of yours, Helena!
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You are definitely into coffee! I still enjoy the taste of a well-made espresso (black, no sugar) occasionally, but get most of my caffeine from green tea these days (gunpowder and Sencha preferred...).
Lovely fractal to celebrate your "addiction", by the way.
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Nice. I don't much go for the 'fancy' coffees (a french press is as fancy as i get). I found espresso a little bitter for my liking, even made with good beans.
For tea, it is orange pekoe all the way - PG Tips, or we have a local grocery (Loblaws), that makes a great orange pekoe. The green teas are to 'grassy' tasting for me.
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Oh yes, I remember good old PG tips from my life in England. Nice tea with a shot of milk to pick you up after a cold few hours outside!
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Unluckily I can't drink anything with caffeine in it, neither tea nor coffee, so the delicate perfumes are a forgotten pleasure.
It's a clever manip.
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Aw. I know a few that have had to give up coffee/tea - generally for health reasons. I feel so sorry for them, especially when they enjoyed it so much!
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I miss tea more as I think it used to flow in my veins.
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LOL. You're secret is safe with me...and, well, all the others who are reading this thread...
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh love your background story!
I like it not to strong . smooth at the end .. extra mild and a bit on the sweeter side !
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A sweet tooth, eh? I guess i do too.
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Yes me .. I have to have something sweet after lunch and dinner . 
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