A lot of cyclists like their coffee since they tend to get up very early to beat the heat. My internal clock is kinda messed up so I'm usually in a stupor until around 9 am. However, I have mastered the art of stupored (stuporous? stuporen?) cycling. One of my friends who works at a local shop suggested I start drinking coffee before rides. The suggestion finally registered in my head, and I made a conscious decision to increase my dependency/addition to caffeine. If you could pick something to be addicted to, this one's not so bad, right? I'd rather be hooked on caffeine than sugar.

I bought a french press for work and my coworker gave me some Starbucks Caffe Verona. Then Farmboy scoffed at my support of the corporate entity that is trying to put Lucy's (a local shop) out of business. Thus, Starbucks no more. (Though I would buy SBUX, but the gains have already been made from their 40,000 store growth plan.)

He ground up some beans for my press and I drank it this morning and it was very good. I'm certainly not a connoisseur, but the good stuff (aka "Kind Bean") from Peet's makes me want to drink a lot of coffee.