Coffee break: lattes are $4 but tech support is free
I’m working on one of my secret projects at the Quakertown Starbucks this afternoon; one of these days I’ll have to spill the secrets. Of course, that’s better than the coffee I saw spilled earlier that was oh-so-close to somebody else’s laptop. Coffee is of course expensive here, but today the tech support was free. Not for me, I was the tech-supporter.See, a few weeks back I hit my high school twentieth reunion and had a blast. So much so, that I decided to start a Facebook group for my class of 281 peers. About 10% have joined this group in the first week and it’s evident that not everyone is computer- or web-savvy. Not a problem and I’m here to help; after all, these were some of my closest friends! All I’m saying is that somebody owes me a coffee because I just talked her though uploading a Flickr photo to Facebook so that she’s no longer a “question mark” in our group. ;)By the way: most of my classmates had no idea of what Facebook is. I think there were about half a dozen that were already on it, but we can’t let the youngsters have all the fun. Besides, it’s been a great way to catch up with folks I haven’t seen in 20 years.
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Coffee puts the system under the strain of metabolizing a deadly acid-forming drug, depositing its insoluble cellulose, which cements the wall of the liver, causing this vital organ to swell to twice its proper size. In addition, coffee is heavily sprayed. (Ninety-two pesticides are applied to its leaves.) Diuretic properties of caffeine cause potassium and other minerals to be flushed from the body.
All this fear went away when I quit, and it was a book that inspired me to do it called The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner. There are five things I liked about this book:
1) It details–thoroughly–the ways in which caffeine may damage your health.
2) It reveals the damage that coffee does to the environment. Specifically, coffee was once grown in the shade, so that trees were left in place. Then sun coffee was introduced, allowing greater yields but contributing to the destruction of rain forests. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else.
3) It explains how best to go off coffee. This is important. If you try cold turkey, as most people probably do, the withdrawal symptoms will likely drive you right back to coffee.
4) Helped me find a great resource for the latest studies at CaffeineAwareness.org
5) Also, if you drink decaf you won’t want to miss this special free report on the dangers of decaf available at http://www.soyfee.com