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Letting My Hair Down
And drinking coffee for a change
For some inexplicable reason I decided that I wanted to drink coffee today. Recently, I have been on a kick of mixing things up; of doing and trying new things, of doing things differently, of taking different routes, of changing routines and habits. It’s good to mix things up from time to time. We humans can get in such solidified ruts. Mixing things up keeps life fresh and exciting.
So I got down on my hands and knees on my kitchen floor and dug my coffee maker out of the bottom kitchen cabinet. It’s just a cheap coffee maker that I bought at Wal-Mart six or seven or eight years ago. Despite being hidden in the back of the cabinet it was covered with a significant layer of dust. So I washed and scrubbed that coffee maker until it looked brand new.
Then I went into the refrigerator where I knew that I had a package of ground coffee. After finding it way in the back of the fridge I looked at the ‘Best by’ date on the package. It read, September, 2013!
Apparently, I have not made and consumed coffee since at least then. So as not to incur the wrath of baristas everywhere I decided not to use that old, old coffee. After writing, ‘coffee,’ on my current shopping list I then put on a heavy winter coat and walked to the coffee shop that is three and a half blocks from where I live…
