Let's start off by admitting I am an internet shopper. Done and out there. I am an internet banker, bill payer, take out orderer, reservation maker... if I can do it online, I wonder why I would consider doing it any other way.
Now that we have the context out of the way, my sister has introduced me to audiobooks online from the library. Now this combines two of my favorite things: accomplishing daily tasks online and free stuff. (yes, I consider the library free stuff... I have to give it back so it's free borrowed stuff, but still I didn't pay for it). This works by signing into the library website, downloading the mp3 file(s) that comprise the book and playing it on your computer in the next 20 days before the file is "due back" so it dissappears. The marvel that is modern technology. If we tried just a little, we wouldn't ever have to leave our houses. We click-click type-type and bing bam boom (UPS truck that is, what can brown do for you?) there is every daily errand we used to leave the house to accomplish.
Seriously, what (other than associating with the three-dimensional people) can you not do from the comfort of your house in your pj's if you desired?
09 March 2007
01 March 2007
Morning coffee
cof·fee (kôf, kf) n.
1. a. Any of various tropical African shrubs or trees of the genus Coffea, especially C. arabica, widely cultivated in the tropics for their seeds that are dried, roasted, and ground to prepare a stimulating aromatic drink.
b. The beanlike seeds of this plant, enclosed within a pulpy fruit.
c. The beverage prepared from the seeds of this plant.
2. A moderate brown to dark brown or dark grayish brown.
3. An informal social gathering at which coffee and other refreshments are served.
So tons of people wake up in the morning to the beverage prepared from the seeds of any of various tropical African shrubs or trees of the genus Coffea. We buy the seeds that have been roasted, grind them up, run boiling water through them and drink it with sugar and cream. We say we are grouchy without our morning coffee. Some people go so far as to say they are not morning people. Some people will pay four bucks for someone else to prepare their morning coffee. All because of the beanlike seeds of a pulpy fruit from a tropical African shrub?
1. a. Any of various tropical African shrubs or trees of the genus Coffea, especially C. arabica, widely cultivated in the tropics for their seeds that are dried, roasted, and ground to prepare a stimulating aromatic drink.
b. The beanlike seeds of this plant, enclosed within a pulpy fruit.
c. The beverage prepared from the seeds of this plant.
2. A moderate brown to dark brown or dark grayish brown.
3. An informal social gathering at which coffee and other refreshments are served.
So tons of people wake up in the morning to the beverage prepared from the seeds of any of various tropical African shrubs or trees of the genus Coffea. We buy the seeds that have been roasted, grind them up, run boiling water through them and drink it with sugar and cream. We say we are grouchy without our morning coffee. Some people go so far as to say they are not morning people. Some people will pay four bucks for someone else to prepare their morning coffee. All because of the beanlike seeds of a pulpy fruit from a tropical African shrub?
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