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Dave, I live in SW Michigan. We did have some pretty severe storms come through a while back. I think they got the worst of it around Kalamazoo. I lot of folks lost power for quite a while.
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It was really sweet weather, low humidity and a nice breeze. It was in the 100's when I left Missouri. It was like a vacation, if you don't count the work part.
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gkeese said
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So you ask, what roll does Music play in my life? It is everything to me. It is what gets me up in the morning. It is what gets me through my shower and 9th cup of coffee. (Doc said I should cut back, but...what does he know? Right?)
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If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it ..(William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night)
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I don't drink a ton of coffee, like 4 cups per day but I am super picky on what brand, freshness etc I need! I drink only pressed coffee, it's more a hassle then a coffee machine but the taste is really better. sometimes though I switch my aftrenoon, early evening coffee for tea. Once again usin tea leaves not bags who taste like cardboard lol. 
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
For many years I began my day at work with coffee from a vending machine. The machine had a problem however and also dispensed a shot of the chicken soup into the coffee. The green parsley flakes looked just right floating on the brown background.
I got used to it and now I'm eternally spoiled for anything else.
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4 cups a day is a lot of coffee NV. Don't deny it. LOL
Do you have a grinder? Press coffee is great but a burr grinder is a must for the optimal taste.
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but the one who needs the least."
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"Addict" and "fanatic" are such dramatic words. LOL But I like my coffee. My default would be medium dark roast arabicas. I don't roast my own, but I do prefer to grind my own. Dripulator made is ok for most of the day, but for morning or occasions when one is particularly going to savour the taste, nothing beats the french press. On an average day, I might go through a couple pots of regular coffee in a day/night, and a couple mugs of french pressed for waking up. Not big on sugar or sweetener in my regular coffee anymore. Sometimes a bit of skim milk, but most often just black. Cream, half&half and most non-dairy creamers are just too fatty for my tastes
But when one really needs to wake up a bit, there's espresso. Medaglia d'Oro is my usual espresso choice. About a coffee mug full, straight from the espresso maker, and straight up. That'll get ye going. If one is feeling a bit fancy, make mocha latte.
For special occasions and around the holidays, usually I get in a bit of Sumatran and/or Cafe du Monde. Cafe du Monde has some chicory in it and I like with a bit of molasses, more to deepen the flavor than sweeten.
But the coffee/music connection? Definitely. Always had a pot starting when going into rehearsal so it'd be waiting when we'd stop for a break, and any time I sit down to work on a musical project the first step is "make coffee". There really should be a button for that on every piece of music/sound software. LOL
All that said, I have cut down a bit over the past few years. It wasn't an intentional conscious effort though. I figure it may just be part of getting old, forgetting to drink the stuff as fast. LOL
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
I was a coffee fanatic drinking 3 pots of coffee a day. I have a burr grinder and would grind the coffee fresh for every pot usinf 1 scoop for every 5 oz cup. Now the doctors say only decaf coffee so I got kind of use to it but have 1 or two cups a day. On those special days I still take my Kona beans out of the freezer and make a small pot. Love Kona.
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I buy my beans from the Costco near my home. They have their own roaster on the premises, and I love getting them while they're still warm.
Every morning, the smell of fresh-ground Sumatran dark roast wafts through the house.
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Only tea for me. Coffee makes me too wired.
Also, although I like the taste of coffee, I don't like the aftertaste.
I just visited the only tea plantation in the US. It's near Charleston, SC. Learned that tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Thats almost hard to believe; it seems like a coffee drinkers' world in many ways.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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I love my coffee too. I like the blue mountain coffee beans from Jamaica.
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KindaScratchy said
Only tea for me. Coffee makes me too wired.
Also, although I like the taste of coffee, I don't like the aftertaste.
I just visited the only tea plantation in the US. It's near Charleston, SC. Learned that tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Thats almost hard to believe; it seems like a coffee drinkers' world in many ways.
Kinda,
What's your favorite tea?
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It's a toss up between Darjeeling and Earl Grey. Twinings has a new black tea with pomegranate that I like in the evening.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Fiddlerman said
4 cups a day is a lot of coffee NV. Don't deny it. LOLDo you have a grinder? Press coffee is great but a burr grinder is a must for the optimal taste.
Yes of course! I have one of those manual ones. We have many brûleries (shop when they roast coffee) in Montreal so it's easy to buy fresh roasted beans. I don't have a favorite, I switch all the time to try new flavour but I always buy café équitable, it's my way to help the world a little bit and at the same time make sure I drink something with no pesticide like for my favorite tea: oolong.
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
NV said: I always buy café équitable, it's my way to help the world a little bit and at the same time make sure I drink something with no pesticide like for my favorite tea: oolong.
Agree, NV. What I buy is called Fair Trade or Equal Exchange, so the coffee farmers get paid a fairer price. I always get organic, too. Don't need to be drinking all those pesticides.
My favorite coffee is Newman's Own Organic--Nell's Breakfast Blend or their darker roast. Only one mugful a day though!
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KindaScratchy said
It's a toss up between Darjeeling and Earl Grey. Twinings has a new black tea with pomegranate that I like in the evening.
Hey this is a tea drinking hijack 
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Fiddlerman said
4 cups a day is a lot of coffee NV. Don't deny it. LOLDo you have a grinder? Press coffee is great but a burr grinder is a must for the optimal taste.
Yes of course! I have one of those manual ones. We have many brûleries (shop when they roast coffee) in Montreal so it's easy to buy fresh roasted beans. I don't have a favorite, I switch all the time to try new flavour but I always buy café équitable, it's my way to help the world a little bit and at the same time make sure I drink something with no pesticide like for my favorite tea: oolong.
There goes the tea again..... 
I had a manual grinder for years. A Zassenhaus Coffee Grinder, which is probably the best manual coffee grinder available for just under $100. Makes a big difference.
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This is the way I like mine .
No matter where you go, there you are!
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KindaScratchy said
It's a toss up between Darjeeling and Earl Grey. Twinings has a new black tea with pomegranate that I like in the evening.
You sound like an english lady Kindascratchy. Earl Grey is delightful, and also Broken Orange Pekoe or English Breakfast.
(just so it's not another hijack situation......
It has to be instant coffee for me I'm afraid to feed my habit, but then most English don't know how to make a proper coffee. That's why I love to visit Turkey or Greece for proper strong coffee. But then again, I love Turkish tea.....
I am amazed at how old people of my age are.....
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for the last 5 yrs or so I've been getting my coffee every morning (well almost every morning but like 98% of them) at the local AM/PM convience store and the house brand is what I've been drinking. I have a HUGE 32 oz cup with a snap on lid and it stays hot just about 6 hrs. I also put like 10 tablespoons of sugar in first, then about a 1/2 cup of French Vanilla creamer then top it off with coffee.
Damn, makes me want a cup right now. It's hardly strong coffee at that point.
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