And my new enormous $9 coffee mug

Jan 15, 2007 at 8:48 AM
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It is pretty darned huge.

The cycle is always the same. I start by drinking lots of tea for a few weeks then have a cup of coffee for old time's sake. Then I'm back on the coffee. Intake increases over time, gradually becoming so huge that I'm dragging one of the brew urns to my desk and drinking directly from the tap, peeing raw undigested coffee 12 times a day, bouncing off the walls during meetings and unable to sit still for more than a fraction of a second. Then I go cold turkey and back to massive amounts of green tea and the cycle repeats.

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This is the only thing that was ever able to make me break my massive coffee addiction. I justify my 4 cups a day by explaining away that TEA IS FILLED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS.

I kind of avoid black tea because I prefer the taste of green and because black has more caffeine than green tea. I prefer Dragonwell Green Special Grade or Gunpowder Green Temple of Heaven from Stash, loose teas. With me and breakfast drinks it's always one extreme or the other.

Turns out Green Tea is really really good for you:

Green tea has a high content of vitamins and minerals. It contains ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in amounts comparable to a lemon. Green tea also contains several B vitamins which are water soluble and quickly released into a cup of tea. Five cups of green tea a day will provide 5-10% of the daily requirement of riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, and pantothenic acid. The same five cups of green tea also provide approximately 5% of the daily requirement of magnesium, 25% of potassium, and 45% of the requirement for manganese. Green tea is also high in fluoride. A cup of green tea provides approximately 0.1 mg of fluoride, which is higher than in fluorinated water. Scientific studies have shown strong evidence that green tea may help reduce the risk of strokes and heart disease, and may also prevent some cancers.

careful with all that 'caf' - if you recall, a certain incident of one business development dork whipping another business development dork with a network cable, at our previous workplace....well, that was completely fueled by massive amounts of coffee (and maybe a redbull or three).

And my new enormous $9 coffee mug

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