Decent coffee

Used food stamps money and got some decent coffee. Kind you take from
a container right there in the store and grind yourself. Yum.

I bought this coffee on a trip to the store to rent two movies about
crazy people to show to my landlord, who had never seen either. We had
been having a discussion about who was more Howard Hughes-like, him or
me.

Landlord is a lot like the Howard Hughes as played by Leonardo
DiCaprio in The Aviator. Talks the same, works for Boeing building
airplanes, is a germophobe.

So I convinced him to watch it. It was some effort. He can't even
enjoy a movie, he is so focused on his business stuff.

He only watched part of it.

Also we got A Beautiful Mind, I wanted him to see it but he still
hasn't watched it. Too much business to deal with.

I hadn't seen that one in years. Methinks it is not too realistic and
very hollywood-ized to make the experience understandable for a
general audience. I don't think most people have all the
hallucinations, and those who do, I think they are not the same
recurring hallucinations of the same people.. there must be some out
there like that but I think it is not common... kind of misleading.

I told landlord it is good for his mental health to be able to enjoy a
movie once in a while. He couldn't still, even a movie about a guy
like himself.

On 20 Feb, 15:30, Gelly <Gell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Used food stamps money and got some decent coffee. Kind you take from
> a container right there in the store and grind yourself. Yum.
>
> I bought this coffee on a trip to the store to rent two movies about
> crazy people to show to my landlord, who had never seen either. We had
> been having a discussion about who was more Howard Hughes-like, him or
> me.
>
> Landlord is a lot like the Howard Hughes as played by Leonardo
> DiCaprio in The Aviator. Talks the same, works for Boeing building
> airplanes, is a germophobe.
>
> So I convinced him to watch it. It was some effort. He can't even
> enjoy a movie, he is so focused on his business stuff.
>
> He only watched part of it.
>
> Also we got A Beautiful Mind, I wanted him to see it but he still
> hasn't watched it. Too much business to deal with.
>
> I hadn't seen that one in years. Methinks it is not too realistic and
> very hollywood-ized to make the experience understandable for a
> general audience. I don't think most people have all the
> hallucinations, and those who do, I think they are not the same
> recurring hallucinations of the same people.. there must be some out
> there like that but I think it is not common... kind of misleading.
>
> I told landlord it is good for his mental health to be able to enjoy a
> movie once in a while. He couldn't still, even a movie about a guy
> like himself.


I have heard of food stamps but would like to know more. How much
money are they worth?
Can you spend them on anything in the supermarket or only on food and
drink? Are there certain foods
and drinks you can't buy with them? Chocolate...junk food...alchohol?

I agree about a beautiful mind..it is misleading especially when it
comes to the hacculinations that he had a flat mate etc.. as you say.
Still enjoyed the film though. Game theory is interesting.





I agree about a Beautiful mind

You can buy anything edible or drinkable (nonalcoholic). Oh and no
medicine.
One of the common arguments is that it should pay for diapers, since
WIC and other help out there doesn't either.

Congrats on the coffee, Gelly. Did you buy a grinder or are you using
a blender?

On Feb 20, 1:24 pm, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats on the coffee, Gelly. Did you buy a grinder or are you using
> a blender?


I didn't buy one, there is a grinder in the store.

I called someone over to help me use it the first time, it was a
little intimidating. Didn't want coffee all over the floor. It turned
out to be no big deal, just looked that way.

Using Ronnoco (sp? now)

Good stuff.

Ronnoco isn't bad. I drink it at work sometimes. I believe
Enterprise Rent a Car owns the company. Ofcourse they own alot of
companies nowadays.

On 20 Feb, 11:23, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You can buy anything edible or drinkable (nonalcoholic). *Oh and no
> medicine.
> One of the common arguments is that it should pay for diapers, since
> WIC and other help out there doesn't either.

Can you buy Lockets and Tunes or are they classed as medicine aswell?

On 20 Feb, 11:29, Gelly <Gell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 20, 1:24 pm, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Congrats on the coffee, Gelly. *Did you buy a grinder or are you using
> > a blender?
>
> I didn't buy one, there is a grinder in the store.
>
> I called someone over to help me use it the first time, it was a
> little intimidating. Didn't want coffee all over the floor. It turned
> out to be no big deal, just looked that way.
>
> Using Ronnoco (sp? now)
>
> Good stuff.

I've never heard of grinding coffee in a shop. I think this might come
over to England at some point, that's if there isn't somewhere here
that already does that.

"Gelly" <Gelly.D@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f8adeff1-20a4-4c38-b203-07a56eaf17d4@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

> I hadn't seen that one in years. Methinks it is not too realistic and
> very hollywood-ized to make the experience understandable for a
> general audience. I don't think most people have all the
> hallucinations, and those who do, I think they are not the same
> recurring hallucinations of the same people.. there must be some out
> there like that but I think it is not common... kind of misleading.

I thought it was great. I have 'hallucinations' where I think that what a
person is saying is part of my delusion, and I could spend days doing work
in a shed that was related to that delusion, only to come out of it and see
the unreality of it all.

Totally creating a person who doesn't exist though, is a bit beyond me I
must admit.

Rohan.

On 21 Feb, 10:07, CosmicWatchmaker <derekkeep...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

> I've never heard of grinding coffee in a shop. I think this might come
> over to England at some point, that's if there isn't somewhere here
> that already does that.

We bought coffee beans for a long time from a local herbalist and they
offered to grind them if required.

Also we used to store coffee beans and coffee in the fridge, because
they were supposed to keep fresher there. I don't know if it made any
difference because I'm not a regular coffee drinker.

Judy