the cooler weather encourages frankness
I bought some Russian hot cocoa mix a while ago and discovered it mixes well when brewed with Starbucks’ Pike Place roast. Pike Place is already a reasonably good brew, but with a thin layer of this cocoa mix on the bottom of the filter, the resulting drink is quite fulfilling. The taste is hard to describe but, when compared to most other coffees, this tastes deeper. It’s similar to your first time trying out 9-grain sliced bread when, all your life, you’ve been unknowingly suffering along with Sunbeam’s white bread—the first try may be overwhelming but then the realization hits that you should have tried this years ago. So, if your local, friendly Russian is making another trip back to his motherland for some Stoli’s and kalashnikovs, hand him a few Benjamins for his trouble in swiping you some packages of hot cocoa mix. The chocolate mix is cheap, but he’s going to need the rest of the cash to bribe that type of cargo out of the country.
It occurred to me today that I demand my shoes be tied at the same time so as to avoid any significant difference in tightness or slackness of string. And this occurred to me when I removed a stone from my left shoe but also untied my right shoe so as to be able to re-tie them at the same time. I’m left confused by this realization but also confident in my self-explanation for such behavior.
Finally, it’s remarkably easy to give things away for free on craigslist. Within 3 minutes of posting a listing, I had 1 reply. Within 5 minutes, I had 3 replies. Problem solved.