USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Mertex]

Took me almost a full year after retirement to learn how to sleep through the night without waking up.

I think that saveliberty is correct in that "having things on your mind" can really interfere with sleep.

I used to play games, thought if I stayed up late I would get really sleepy and fall asleep quickly. All it did was wind me up and it would take me longer to go to sleep. Now, if I have serious things going that I think will keep me awake, I take an Alleve right before going to bed....works like a charm.

 

[Mertex]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

 

[Sherry]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

Drinks should be cold. Also, for some reason when I did try coffee, the after taste made me feel very thirsty for water. I do love me some coffee ice cream though.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Among other places, I have lived in Fairbanks, Alaska; Sierra Vista, AZ; Nacogdoches, Center, Jasper, Tx; Many, LA; Oceanside, CA; and Salt Lake City, UT.

I like SLC the best.

While SLC is pretty nice, I prefer Alaska. At least I don't have to join some rinkydink private club to consume a beer outside the house. Oh, wait, I don't drink beer away from home, anyways. I do like SLC, though. I attended a couple of seminars at the University in nearby Provo. It's a clean, decent neighborhood. Liked the people, too.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

The McDonalds I frequent for coffee does a good job. It's usually my first cup of the "morning" and only costs $1. Most of the time, a large coffee lasts me most of the night. The coffee we scrounge of the airplanes is pretty crappy. I feel sorry for the crews trapped with only that coffee for sustenance.

 

[Montrovant]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

Drinks should be cold. Also, for some reason when I did try coffee, the after taste made me feel very thirsty for water. I do love me some coffee ice cream though.

Coffee can dry your mouth out. I don't know if it's just the caffeine or something else is involved. Tea can do the same thing.

 

[Sherry]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

Drinks should be cold. Also, for some reason when I did try coffee, the after taste made me feel very thirsty for water. I do love me some coffee ice cream though.

Coffee can dry your mouth out. I don't know if it's just the caffeine or something else is involved. Tea can do the same thing.

I love iced tea.

 

[bodecea]

Took me almost a full year after retirement to learn how to sleep through the night without waking up.

I think that saveliberty is correct in that "having things on your mind" can really interfere with sleep.

I used to play games, thought if I stayed up late I would get really sleepy and fall asleep quickly. All it did was wind me up and it would take me longer to go to sleep. Now, if I have serious things going that I think will keep me awake, I take an Alleve right before going to bed....works like a charm.

I have nights where I sleep so wonderfully and other nights where I get what I call "antsy legs" and toss and turn for hours. Someone told me to take Tylenol PM but I don't like to take pills unless I have to.

 

[Montrovant]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

Drinks should be cold. Also, for some reason when I did try coffee, the after taste made me feel very thirsty for water. I do love me some coffee ice cream though.

Coffee can dry your mouth out. I don't know if it's just the caffeine or something else is involved. Tea can do the same thing.

I love iced tea.

I drink hot tea most of the day. I'll get iced tea if I'm out somewhere.

 

[Ringel05]

The wife received a call earlier today asking if she was interested in a position, doing what she was doing here, in Albuquerque. If this pans out we're heading south.....

 

[Foxfyre]

I love "podunk towns." I live in one.

Everyone has their like and dislikes. It's not that small towns are really bad, it's just we are not cut out to live in one, or in a rural setting either. I like the fact that I can go 2 minutes down the road to a gas mart or 7-11, 24-7 if there is something I need or want, I like having multiple grocery stores to choose from, tons of restaurants, multiple mom and pop or chain store options, etc.

I hear ya... what I dislike about cities is lots of people and traffic/traffic lights. I need me some elbow room. I lived in Phoenix, Tampa, Las Vegas, Reno... all big cities. Reno was the only one that was even remotely tolerable, but I just got my belly full of cities. I can go downtown here which is like half a mile away, and all I have to go through to get there is two stop signs. There are no traffic lights here, there is no rush hour traffic, and there's nowhere I can't go around here and not say hi to someone I know. They do roll up the sidewalks around here about midnight, but that's the way I like it, nice and quiet.

I don't think Tampa counts as a big city. It's more like an extremely large suburb.

That's true about most big cities. Denver itself isn't that big but Denver metro is huge, same with DC.

When people use the term big city, I think New York, Chicago, LA. I haven't traveled enough to see what most major US cities are like, but Tampa barely seems like a city at all to me.

Tampa is over 350,000 which definitely puts it well out of the small city category. By contrast, Albuquerque is something over 550,000--31st or 32nd largest city in the nation--and the metro area is approaching 1 million--but it doesn't feel like a really big city.

 

[saveliberty]

Took me almost a full year after retirement to learn how to sleep through the night without waking up.

I think that saveliberty is correct in that "having things on your mind" can really interfere with sleep.

I used to play games, thought if I stayed up late I would get really sleepy and fall asleep quickly. All it did was wind me up and it would take me longer to go to sleep. Now, if I have serious things going that I think will keep me awake, I take an Alleve right before going to bed....works like a charm.

I have nights where I sleep so wonderfully and other nights where I get what I call "antsy legs" and toss and turn for hours. Someone told me to take Tylenol PM but I don't like to take pills unless I have to.

That is a good rule regarding pills. I normally sleep on my side, but some nights it seems back, front or side is not quite right.

 

[saveliberty]

The wife received a call earlier today asking if she was interested in a position, doing what she was doing here, in Albuquerque. If this pans out we're heading south.....

I'm about ready to suggest throwing a dart at a US map and have you just go there.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Albuquerque is a good city.

 

[bodecea]

I think you guys would be very proud of this non-coffee drinker. We had a management meeting last week and the big boss was asking for suggestions. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking, but I brought up the idea of a coffee station. She loved it, and of course then volunteered me to be in charge of it.Who wants the person who never drinks coffee to be making the coffee?? I've never made coffee, and all week I've been getting compliments on how good my coffee tastes. I guess I'm just a natural, and coffee drinkers obviously love me.

But how come you don't drink da coffee, Sherry? Than's so un-American, tsk, tsk .....I've only had bad coffee once......it was at a McDonalds in Virginia. The owner was meticulously clean, was in there early in the morning sweeping and mopping the floor, but his coffee sucked. I've never had that bad a coffee anywhere else. If you're making good coffee, you need to drink it...it's good for what ails ya.

Drinks should be cold. Also, for some reason when I did try coffee, the after taste made me feel very thirsty for water. I do love me some coffee ice cream though.

Cold Stone Coffee Lovers Only....yum!

 

[Ringel05]

The wife received a call earlier today asking if she was interested in a position, doing what she was doing here, in Albuquerque. If this pans out we're heading south.....

I'm about ready to suggest throwing a dart at a US map and have you just go there.

Honestly we would like to stay in the southwest, preferably Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona or even Nevada, we'd even consider west Texas...... maybe.......

 

[Tresha91203]

I prefer rural to city life myself. Where we are is a compromise since Mrs Te would probably divorce me if I suggested that we live in the boonies. We are surrounded by preserved farmlands but can be in NYC or Philly within an hour or so.

I'm in the boonies in that I'm the last house on a dead end road. Convenience store a mile and a half one way, a small grocery, hardware. farmer's Co-op 2 miles the other way. 5 miles to Win-Dixie 6 to Wall mart and 9 to the Gulf.
If I need more, Pensacola is 25 miles east and Mobile 40 miles to the west. If I get hungry, New Orleans is 2 hours away. If I want a casino, Biloxi is 90 miles.

My twin lives in Fairhope by Daphne, AL. You sound like you're neighbors. We venture that way often. Lovely area.

 

[Mertex]

Took me almost a full year after retirement to learn how to sleep through the night without waking up.

I think that saveliberty is correct in that "having things on your mind" can really interfere with sleep.

I used to play games, thought if I stayed up late I would get really sleepy and fall asleep quickly. All it did was wind me up and it would take me longer to go to sleep. Now, if I have serious things going that I think will keep me awake, I take an Alleve right before going to bed....works like a charm.

I have nights where I sleep so wonderfully and other nights where I get what I call "antsy legs" and toss and turn for hours. Someone told me to take Tylenol PM but I don't like to take pills unless I have to.

I don't like to take pills unless I have to, either, and thankfully I don't have to very often. But, some time back, (before I finally realized that coffee in the afternoon or evening was messing up my sleep) someone told me that Advil before going to bed would help me sleep. Well, it was working great until I went for my annual check up and blood test. My doctor asked me if I was taking some kind of aspirin on a regular basis and I told him, "yes, I take an Advil every night to help me sleep" - he told me to stop. Apparently it was doing something to my kidneys....he told me to take Alleve, instead. I only take it when I know I'm all worked up, and ever since I quit drinking coffee or tea past 3:00 pm, I haven't had much trouble sleeping.

 

[Ernie S.]

I prefer rural to city life myself. Where we are is a compromise since Mrs Te would probably divorce me if I suggested that we live in the boonies. We are surrounded by preserved farmlands but can be in NYC or Philly within an hour or so.

I'm in the boonies in that I'm the last house on a dead end road. Convenience store a mile and a half one way, a small grocery, hardware. farmer's Co-op 2 miles the other way. 5 miles to Win-Dixie 6 to Wall mart and 9 to the Gulf.
If I need more, Pensacola is 25 miles east and Mobile 40 miles to the west. If I get hungry, New Orleans is 2 hours away. If I want a casino, Biloxi is 90 miles.

My twin lives in Fairhope by Daphne, AL. You sound like you're neighbors. We venture that way often. Lovely area.

I get to Fairhope often. I buy my coffee in Malbis, just to the north. This time of the year, I'll stop for pecans along the way They should be dropping soon.

 

[Tresha91203]

I prefer rural to city life myself. Where we are is a compromise since Mrs Te would probably divorce me if I suggested that we live in the boonies. We are surrounded by preserved farmlands but can be in NYC or Philly within an hour or so.

I'm in the boonies in that I'm the last house on a dead end road. Convenience store a mile and a half one way, a small grocery, hardware. farmer's Co-op 2 miles the other way. 5 miles to Win-Dixie 6 to Wall mart and 9 to the Gulf.
If I need more, Pensacola is 25 miles east and Mobile 40 miles to the west. If I get hungry, New Orleans is 2 hours away. If I want a casino, Biloxi is 90 miles.

My twin lives in Fairhope by Daphne, AL. You sound like you're neighbors. We venture that way often. Lovely area.

I get to Fairhope often. I buy my coffee in Malbis, just to the north. This time of the year, I'll stop for pecans along the way They should be dropping soon.

Yes, that's the place! We will be out there next month for Thanksgiving. His wife is a great cook and she usually pickles some okra for me to take back with me. Yumm!