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Assorted Ramblings, Caffeine

Losing my Superpowers

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If you’ve ever read a Superman comic book, then you know his great weakness. Expose him to kryptonite and his powers are gone. It’s all he can do to just stand up.

I know how he feels. By the end of the day Thursday, it was all I could do to stand up.

There weren’t any glowing rocks from outer space. What did me in was a lack of caffeine.

When I got to the office on Thursday, I had 50 cents with me. That took care of the morning caffeine, but I didn’t get a chance to stop by the supermarket during lunch. I spent the afternoon with thirty pennies, several $20 bills, and a soda machine that would take neither.

Fortunately for Superman, once the kryptonite is taken away, his powers return. I stopped at the store on my way home and bought soda for Friday. 🙂

Assorted Ramblings, Caffeine

Free Coffee

I can’t confirm it on their corporate site, but Starbucks is supposedly giving away coffee tomorrow for Earth Day. To get the free coffee, you just have to show up with your own to-go mug.

They gave it away a few weeks ago too during their “Great American Coffee Break” promotion.

My theory is that Starbucks is about to start following Google’s example. Sometime in the next few weeks they’ll announce that they’re going to start giving the coffee away for free and they’ll pay for it by putting ads on the side of the cup tailored to your personal coffee drinking habits.

(That sort of idea makes me glad I don’t drink coffee!!!)

Assorted Ramblings, Caffeine

Coffee – bleah

I’ve run across a few mentions recently about Starbucks’ plan to give away free coffee today and passed it along to a few friends who are coffee drinkers – or so I thought.

It turns out that I was wrong about at least one of them. Foo Foo’s response to the entire thing was summed up by line, “Plain coffee tastes nasty!”

And here I thought I was the only freak who felt that way about coffee. I tried drinking coffee back in college (after all, isn’t college supposed to be all about experimentation?), but just plain didn’t like it.

So, sorry Starbucks, I won’t be coming by for the “National Coffee Break.”

But I’m definitely looking forward to the next Ben & Jerry’s free scoop day!