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@memento_mori said:
Today…🤬🤬🤬

First workout in three weeks, if you could count it as such. Only flat bench work to protect my back. I only used #20 and #25 dumbbells. Felt good to do something even if it wasn’t much. Still unable to do anything standing or requires core stability. 😖😞

Sounds like Larry bought coffee beans from the guy selling "Cuban cigars" from a knapsack on the street corner. Tell him that he got ripped off, they sold him baked pinto beans and just told him it was coffee.

Spent the past 5 days with all my kids in one place together…first time in 2 years.

In '06, I was enrolled in an associate's degree program in culinary arts, and the class for the semester, 'Institutional Cooking', was at Mount Mary Women's College. It was fun and close to home, so it was a great time. During a break one day, I decided to go explore the old building's architecture, when I spotted a fella about my age doing the same thing. Turns out he was taking a class in nutrition for his job as a dietician. I had started roasting coffee a couple of years earlier and was trying to build a small clientele, so I asked him what was in the tumbler he was holding. When he said coffee, I told him what I was up to and gave him my business card.

Much to my surprise, Larry called me a short while later and said he wanted to give my beans a whirl. He's been buying coffee ever since, as my longest-running customer. We've become friends of sorts - a little bit of him goes a long way - having lunch, etc., I've been to his house for dinner parties, and his crazy wife sends me silly little gifts at Christmas.

Larry was here picking up yesterday, and gave me a 4oz sample bag of some 'special' beans he brought back from Costa Rica recently, a geisha coffee no less. The beans looked promising - wrinkles on the bean surface indicate a lighter roast - so I thanked him and said I'd report back. This morning, I went against my better judgment and brewed a cup. Man alive, it was bad; one slurp was all it took, and down the drain it went. I should know better, but my curiosity got the best of me, I suppose. What a waste of water and my time.

So, now I have to come up with something to tell Larry...

Today was the first day back to the gym in almost 8 months and damn did it feel good but I’m gonna be sore as hell this week.

Lol