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The one bit I miss was a feature of an older coffee maker. It had a timer, so I could load it the previous night, and the drip cycle began when the timer went off, so I could awaken to fresh brewed coffee.
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OMG, yes. I would give probably some relatively-unused body parts if I could figure out how to make my FP do my coffee automatically. As I rise first nowadays, my former automatic FP coffee maker (Mr. H) is out of commission. |
There's a Dunkin Donuts about a block from me. My SO is early to bed, early to rise (in bed by 10pm, up by 6am) and she's taken to bringing me DD coffee in the morning. I'm perfectly happy to brew my own, but she wants the exercise.
I could probably still find Mr. Coffee style drip unit with a digital clock and timer, but the need isn't pressing.
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A friend is currently in Malta for a vacation, and offered to bring me back some Maltese coffee. Sure. But as I understand it, Maltese coffee as served is much like Turkish coffee, where you get something like coffee syrup as the end result, sipped delicately from tiny cups.
It reminds me of the old Western recipe for chuckwagon style coffee: you put a pound of coffee in a small pot. You add a little water, and boil for an hour. You test by putting in a spoon. If the spoon sinks, you add more coffee.
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I've had real chuckwagon coffee--or as real as it gets, in the last century and this, and it, too, has that thick, gooey, pops your brain into overdrive status.
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One thing I drank in the past was Morning Thunder. It's a Celestial Seasonings brand composed of a mix of black tea and mate, and touts having half again the caffeine of an equivalent cup of coffee. Drink it, and you're
awake! 
A teacher long ago described being a No Doze addict as a kid. She'd scarf No Doze and stay up all night and study. She decided that caffeine addiction was a bad idea, so she quit cold turkey. She took her giant economy bottle of No Doze to the park and fed the tablets to the pigeons. I've since I've had this manic vision of a male pigeon, wide eyed and pacing, and a female saying "Harry, come sleep in the nest and help me keep the eggs warm!" "I dunno what it is, Madge, but I can't sleep! My eyes are wide open! Musta been something I ate..."
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I'm one of those folks who isn't fully functional till after coffee, and I've been known to ask at Starbucks and the like whether I can get it with an IV drip...
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Yeah, me too. I used to be worse--I mean, coffee, morning, noon, night...but as I've, er, seasoned, I've had to cut back. I've been an insomniac since the earliest I can remember, and now, coffee after noon seems to impact my ability to get to sleep, no matter how much I exercise, melatonin, etc. SAD, 'cuz, yes, I love my coffee. Which is why I want my morning coffee to be as perfect as it can be--I pretty much only get one (very large, granted) cup a day, so I want it to be right.
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I've tapered off too. I have a pot in the morning, but drink tea after. The latter is medicinal - I don't need to see a weather report to know a front is moving in. My sinuses let me know, and my SO looks and goes "1, 2..." counting each one she can see bulging. Tea goes a long way toward controlling that.
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Dennis