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Caffeine, Sweet Nector of Life

Posted by Mark | Filed under Food

As usual, I stayed up later than I really should have last night and it was mak­ing it hard to con­cen­trate on the defects I’ve been test­ing this morn­ing. I checked my IM list and all my break-buddies* are out of the office today. I said to hell heck with this and trot­ted over to the Ter­rapin. I knew they’d been doing good busi­ness but usu­ally my tim­ing it bet­ter and all the cus­tomers already have their cof­fee and are sit­ting down drink­ing it, rather than stand­ing 10 deep in line wait­ing to get served. I finally get up the counter and order my reg­u­lar, the Grand Canyon (2 shots of espresso, steamed milk, a dash of choco­late syrup and a a dash of mango syrup). I had to wait a few min­utes to get my drink and as I’m stand­ing there; I can feel myself relax as I’m inhal­ing that won­der­ful frager­ence of fresh cof­fee. Ahhhh, life (with caf­feine) is good. :)

After a few min­utes, –mostly spent avoid­ing the 3 year old run­ning around play­ing with a straw while her mom was yakking away on the phone– my Grand Canyon was ready and I went back to work. At first I was slowly sip­ping the cof­fee, try­ing to make it last, but before I knew it I was tak­ing full swal­lows and now I’m reduced to lick­ing the remains out of the cup. *sigh*

Oh well, at least I no longer feel like I’m going to fall asleep over my key­board and should be able to get some real work done. Speak­ing of which, it’s time I got back to it.

* Break-Buddy –ies: (noun) A co-worker who you are will­ing to spend time talk­ing to or just hang­ing around with dur­ing your cof­fee and/or smoke breaks.

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