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Category: Morning Coffee

  • Morning Coffee: The Big Game?

    Morning Coffee: The Big Game?

    Anyone watch the big game? If you’re checking the calendar or the weekend’s scores and getting ready to ask, “What big game?” I don’t know.

  • Morning Coffee: Coffee Badging

    Morning Coffee: Coffee Badging

    “Coffee badging” warms my heart. It emphasizes the innate desire for flexibility and the obstacles people will overcome (or work around) to undermine a foolish policy.

  • Morning Coffee: Novel Sounds

    Morning Coffee: Novel Sounds

    I enjoy listening to music whilst reading, like creating a soundtrack for the images playing in my head. The music doesn’t distract much, if at all, from the words, especially if I find the perfect musical accompaniment.

  • Morning Coffee: Everything Is A Subscription

    Morning Coffee: Everything Is A Subscription

    Everything has a “subscribe and save” or membership attached to it, and if you’re paying for it, you need to pay more for the actual convenience of having a paid service. At some point, abstaining from ubiquitous conveniences no longer feels worth the hassle. It’s too much of a fight.

  • Morning Coffee: Chill

    Morning Coffee: Chill

    I’ve always considered myself easygoing and calm. That mindset usually serves me well – no fuss, no muss. While thinking I’m this laid back, calm operator, however, I missed the changes. Chill was no longer my foundational modus operandi.

  • Morning Coffee: Summer’s Setting Days

    Morning Coffee: Summer’s Setting Days

    May and June hold the promise of forthcoming months of freedom, fun, and opportunity. School is out and summer break begins. July is the main event where summer activities hit their stride. The previous school year is a memory and the upcoming year is not yet a thought. August can be cruel. Summer is still…

  • Morning Coffee: Cassette Dreams

    Morning Coffee: Cassette Dreams

    Set between vinyl and compact disc, the beautiful cassette tape, in any of its iterations, may hold special memories for certain generations. Whether recording or listening, the cassette provided an accessible medium for creating and collecting music.

  • Morning Coffee: Languishing LEGO

    Morning Coffee: Languishing LEGO

    Once upon a time, LEGO inspired magnificent and limitless imaginative world building. Today, LEGO markets those sets to adults and collectors, only offering them if they are voted into existence by nostalgic fans. LEGO has strayed from offering the tools to create worlds and instead sells sets tied to IPs and targeted at fandom economies.

  • Morning Coffee: The Dark Dreams of an Apt Pupil

    Morning Coffee: The Dark Dreams of an Apt Pupil

    Several weeks ago I wrote about my reading goal for the year, which is to read 15 books. Since then, I’ve completed two more (seven to go), with the most recent being Apt Pupil by Stephen King. In this case, Apt Pupil was entertaining, but wow, I don’t know if that was the one to…

  • Morning Coffee: Volume Up

    Morning Coffee: Volume Up

    At some point during my years, I stopped listening to music at a high volume. I’m not talking “ear-splitting permanent damage” levels, just high enough to drown out the world and take over your senses. That’s when you can really feel and connect with the music. For whatever reason, I stopped doing that until just…