Well…when I was searching for some cheap whole coffee beans, I went into the comments for the Hills Brothers beans that I did buy and it made me laugh…I mean what did they expect? Some of the criticism would fit any whole beans that sit around for a while like “the aroma goes away after a couple of weeks” or “not as smooth as I hoped it would be”…I guess I have the luxury of history when I saw these…that my mother used to drink Hills Brothers, making it in her percolater that she put on the burner on the stove…and I can still remember the noise it made and watching the coffee splashing in the little glass window on the top of it…I know it’s difficult for us drinkers when coffee beans that used to be 13 bucks are now 39 but I look on the search for affordable beans to be a little fun and I do anticipate getting the beans in a couple of weeks and trying them…I know me losing my sense of taste is both a blessing and a curse…I can’t taste the things I want to but I also can’t taste the bitterness that comes with cheap coffee…after all, it’s just a CDS (caffeine delivery system) to me anyway…I do feel for people trying to deal with the stupid inflation of coffee caused by idiot boy’s tariffs…but I think they need to temper their expectations…after all, brisket in Texas is up to 49 bucks a pound and they could be paying that…
Monthly Archives: June 2026
June 1st
Well…another month starts and I’m starting this without coffee as I wait for the pour over to finish…I did a little looking and last month was the most prolific I’ve been here since I started doing this years ago…does that have any significance? Nope…just had stuff to say last month that I’m not sure will continue in June…we’ll see…okay, I need to go pour coffee…that’s better…I did sleep okay last night and I had dreams about house fires and trying to save my house from it…weird…is dreaming worth it? Yep, it means I got into REM sleep that I very seldom accomplish anymore as I get older…it’s only 51 again here this morning so I will be waiting a while to go out on the bike and that still sucks no matter how many times it happens…I will get to the first 1,000 miles on the bike outdoors this morning and I feel like such a slug that it took so long..still over 1,000 miles behind where I was last year at this time and I’m still going to blame the crappy cold weather…I am still stressed out about having to renew my driver’s license in person tomorrow and take an eye test that I’m not sure I’m going to pass…my eyesight has gotten much better since I stopped drinking but it’s not what it used to be as is everything with this almost 73 year old body…and it doesn’t help that the inflammation in my eyelids has flared and I had to use the ointment on them…oh, well…the thing that pisses me off is the SOS lying and saying that I need to go there in person to get a “new photo” since the last one is 8 years old…no one really likes old people…not much to do today…just need to activate the new Capital One card if it comes…and hope my exhaustion doesn’t come back today…oh, and I need to run out to Aldis to get a loaf of bread to replace the one that went moldy…not having bread here is kind of strange…more later