[Seriously, anything this big really should come with a lifeguard. – KM]
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[Seriously, anything this big really should come with a lifeguard. – KM]
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I just spotted a woman at the coffeehouse pull out an 8-inch long propane grill lighter to torch her cigarette. … And I think perhaps her eyebrows.
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I am still recovering from the anguish that was yesterday’s game. The Jets team that was expected a month and half ago finally showed up in Foxborough … to play the Foxborough Community College Patriots. The Pats were awful yesterday – Brady throwing behind everyone and an INT, two dropped TD passes, fumbles, poor special teams play – and the team did not deserve to win. I will drown my sorrows in coffee! … When does spring training being?
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That Dave Brubeck Quartet is just right for the coffeehouse. Oh, yeah!
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Just went into my backup coffeehouse – Exotic Java on Ben Holt in Stockton – after being away for two months or so and the barista says to me: “Hey, there, how ya doin’? Still drinking the usual?” Yes, yes, I am. She even walked it over to my table as I was setting up my laptop. Cool! … Oh, and it’s right next door to a tattoo parlor. You can get hyped up on a Red Eye and get a tattoo all in one visit!
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[I was scanning the job postings hosted by www.treehugger.com when I spotted several blog postings about greening coffee production and coffeehouses. Here are links to those posts. – KM]
Green Suggestions for coffee shops | www.treehugger.com
How to go green: Coffee and tea | planetgreen.com
Birch Coffee: A sustainable community hangout | www.treehugger.com
Growing oyster mushrooms in coffee grounds | www.treehugger.com
Starbucks shareholders reject recycling initiative | www.treehugger.com
Interview: Tony Gale, corporate architect at Starbucks | www.treehugger.com
Green mood lighting for Starbucks! Switching 8,000 stores to LEDs | www.treehugger.com
Starbucks’ farmers discuss the impact of fair trade | www.treehugger.com
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The guy sitting next to me in the coffeehouse either has the worst cold known to man — and woman — or he is attempting the mating call of the Mongolian yak! … I am now showering in Purell.
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If the guy sitting at the next table is going to make up a song in real time, shouldn’t he at least do it in tune?
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Coffee on a rainy morning and watching the Pats. Not a bad way to start a Sunday. I’ve been a Pats fan since I was 8. … And, yes, there was football when I was 8. … I started being a fan just about the time the Pats drafted Jim Plunkett.
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You gotta love a coffeehouse open on New Year’s Day! That makes me caffeinated from Day 1 of 2011. Happy Caffeinated New Year!
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It seems a bit early, but college students are meandering back to Stockton … and the coffeehouse. (For those of you who do not know, Stockton not only is home to vast home foreclosures, high rates of poverty, crime, and other things not good for you, and the annual Asparagus Festival, but also home to the University of the Pacific, San Joaquin Delta College, a California State University, Stanislaus satellite campus, a private law school, and several business and vocational schools. So there are quite a few college students to go around.)
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OK, should I be freaked out? Two — one, two — Seussian Christmas hats in the coffeehouse. And they are between me and the door. I’m dooooooomed! … I wonder if it’s some sort of lodge hat. And if they’ll slip and do the secret handshake in public.
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Smoldering jazz inside the coffeehouse and a man standing outside in a fedora and trench coat. … I think I just sat down into a pulp detective novel. And that’s OK with me as long as no one starts shooting up the place with a gat.
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Watching the Patriots stomp the Chicago Bears. I would not have thought the first half would have gone quite like this.
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OK, it appears as if the coffeehouse staff is going through Pandora’s entire disco collection. And it’s rather large. Rather large. “… Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight …”
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There’s an eclectic music selection at the coffeehouse today. “Peaches” by the Presidents of the U.S.A. was followed by Johnny Cash’s “Will the Circle be Unbroken.” Now, some disco song is playing. See, eclectic.
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Decided to hang out at the library today instead of the coffeehouse and now I’m really missing the caffeine and the peace and quiet. Yes, missing the peace and quiet – two kids plopped down at the desk next to me and have been noisy every since. And a guy at another nearby table is talking loudly in his cell phone. The guard is now cutting him off. I had to turn up Green Day’s “Nimrod” just so I can think.
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The guy with the Seussian Christmas hat is back!
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Crap! Just spilled coffee on myself. That’s like — like — well, it’s like spilling beer. It’s just not done!
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I just submitted two applications online during the halftime of the Monday Night Football game. That’s multitasking! … By the way, GO PATS!
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My name is Keith Michaud and this is “Letters From Away,” a blog written by a Mainer living outside the comfortable and sane confines of New England. The blog is intended for Mainers, whether they live in the Pine Tree State or beyond, and for anyone who has loved ’em, been baffled by ’em or both. Ayuh, I am “from away.” Worse still, I live on the Left Coast – in California. Enjoy! Or not. Your choice.
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