{"id":74,"date":"2008-01-21T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-01-21T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:42:32","slug":"coffee-some-assorted-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/coffee-some-assorted-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee — some assorted thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Label<\/a>Today, the barometric pressure is very high — higher than yesterday anyway — so the migraine that’s been off and on for a while is back with a vengeance. So, rather than immediately reach for the painkillers which I’ve been trying to avoid (mainly because they’re so hard to get a Doc to give a prescription for them) , I decided on Tylenol and coffee — doesn’t help much but it takes the edge off and then I can usually deal — provided I don’t have to actually make any important decisions. Someday, when I feel I can do it without whinging and whining, I’ll do a post on living with chronic pain.<\/p>\n

Not only do I use coffee medicinally and consciously so, I actually like it. When we lived in Rhode Island, there were lots of coffee shops including the usual Starbucks as well as Ocean Coffee Roasters<\/a>, The Coffee Exchange<\/a>, Cafe Zog and a host of others. When you went grocery shopping the coffee aisle was just that; a full aisle with coffees of various types, flavors, and brands, filling nearly both sides of a full aisle. Then we moved to Maryland. Here the coffee aisle of the grocery store was one shelf carrying Nescafe, Maxwell House, and if you were lucky some of the General Foods International Coffees. Then Starbucks opened up in several communities surrounding us — within a year the urge to buy decent beans didn’t mean Internet shopping or a trip into DC or some far off mall with a specialty shop — I could now get decent beans within an hours drive. Life was good again.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, I do some searches on coffee just to see what comes up and that’s how I found out about Raven’s Brew<\/a>‘s Dead Man’s Reach (see the label above). You’ve got to check out their site, even if it’s just for the coffee labels and descriptions. I got some Dead Man’s Reach, just couldn’t resist the picture on the label, it was certainly strongly flavored and it did get the eyes open in the morning. It was smooth too which I hadn’t really expected but enjoyed with sipping or gulping each cup.<\/p>\n

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