So it has been left to me to organize this year Xmas party, I am so surprised to have been give a rather nice budget. In comparison to last year we’re going to be living the high life. But then I think, work nights out always end up feeling so formal, when all people really want to do is have something to fill them up and then have a jolly old drink followed by some embarrassing shape throwing on the dance floor. I then remember watching come dine with me on the tv where a couple of people had hog roasts and it didn’t half look tasty so I booked one of them and threw the party in my garden (i of course got a hosting fee) then we went into town and spent the lot on drinks. Easy peesy lemon squeezy. I did of course make sure everyone was severely liquored up at my house before going into town, as I thought and I was right that no one would ask to see the receipts, worked out as quite a lucrative night for me!
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The other day I took a trip downtown to see an old friend from Big Rapids. She was coming back from Wyoming and due at Union station at 3:30 Pm for a layover before transferring to a bus to Michigan.
I had set out early in order to visit Harold Washington library and to borrow a couple of books. I then walked the rest of the way to Union Station and sat and read for awhile at the place where we were to meet. After some time I needed to use the restroom, so I went across the street to the main lobby of Union Station.
When I came back a policeman asked me what I was waiting on. I told him I was waiting on a friend. Next he told me there was no loitering and I had to move it along. If he saw me back there he would arrest me. I was forced to just head back home without seeing my friend Anna. I tried to call her but all I had in my pocket were a few nickels and a few subway coupons.
I wonder why he thought I was a loiterer. I don’t look like I’m homeless or anything.
Every morning, I wake up and drive to the local coffee shop to have a morning coffee, or ten! Paper coffee cups fill the garbage cans at the shop. But why? Paper coffee cups are meant to be “to-go” cups, so why are there so many used cups being thrown away at the coffee shop itself? Why don’t coffee shops use ceramic mugs that are reusable for “stay-in” customers? All coffee shops are equipped with sinks and materials to wash them. It only makes sense, that even if paper coffee cups are environmentally friendly, even if they are PLA cups and completely compostable, that to have a better environmental impact, no disposable cups should be used. Contact your local coffee shop and try to change this. You won’t likely see any big name companies changing based on customers complaints, but perhaps you can make a difference in smaller, more local coffee shops. Doing this could save thousands, even millions of cups per year!
It may well be said at the start of this our 21st century that what contemporary commercial coffee makers do may in fact be justly called precision coffee brewing. In the old days, brewing a cup of coffee was largely a random process with many unknowns, including brewing time and physical parameters. The process of boiling coffee ground in hot water is indeed no rocket science. While today we have elaborate machines often called coffee systems, which combine grinding, brewing and heating, all wrapped into a single elegance appliance. There are satellite brewers that churn out hundreds of coffee cups per hour. We have air pots that keep coffee hot forever. In a word, we have really come a long way! A cup of coffee can be brewed according to precise specifications by an automatic coffee maker programmed by the user. If this technological trend toward sophistication continues, these machines will soon be flying us to Mars while filling us with coffee.
