An update on the previous post: After three cups of coffee and despite having had lunch, my ears are ringing and I’ve got a squeezing headache. Does 8 O’Clock Coffee carry more than the average dose of caffeine? The beans look less roasted than those I typically use, and less roasting typically leaves more caffeine …
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8 O’Clock Coffee
I drink a goodly amount of coffee — between half a pot and a full pot a day. I don’t get headaches if I miss a day, and I can drink a double espresso at night and still fall asleep. It’s a reassuring constant in my otherwise topsy-turvy days. I’m particular about coffee, prefering to …
Dessert in a glass
This is the second installment in the Spirited Cuisine series from Sri Bala (Shaman) and me. Each week or so I select a liquor or spirit, and Sri creates a dessert recipe incorporating it. Find Sri’s posts at his blog and mine here within the Lush Life category. In the summer of 1997, I traveled …
Drawing after midnight
Potato masher Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey. Boy, it’s hard fitting everything into a day. Websites to design, computers to fix, emails to answer, bills to pay, cocktails to drink … it just keeps coming. And in the end, it’s you, Faithful Blog Reader, who gets the short straw. Did I tell you how November ended, …
Spirited cuisine: Frangelico
Sri Bala has come up with a delightful adventure that combines cooking and drinking, photography and blogging. Each week, I’ll suggest a liqueur or alcoholic beverage, and Sri will create a dish that uses it as an ingredient. He’ll be blogging about the food part over at his fine blog, with photographs and recipes and …
My day with the Human Baton
Things have been so crazybusy that I haven’t had the chance to udpate you on my Human Baton experience last week. Here’s the lowdown: I met up with Luke (aka the Human Baton) and his transporters from Baltimore very late thursday evening, around 1:30am, at the Eat ‘n Park in Somerset. We had a bit …
You may call me “Cynthia the Winsome”
My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Royal Highness Cynthia the Winsome of Frogging over Womble Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title If Bono is disappointed at not gaining a title when he is knighted, he could get one online. And it would be quite fancy.
What a fool believes
UPDATED: Just got a call — it’s on! Tonight I’m scheduled to rendezvous with Luke Vaughn — the Running Fool, the Human Baton — and his Baltimore-to-Hidden-Valley driver, some time around 11pm. I last heard from him on 12/8, and we haven’t actually confirmed the location for the handoff. I just heard from Luke, and …
Gonna make you sweat
You wouldn’t guess it to look at me, but I enjoy exercising. No, honest, it’s true. Especially weight training or heading out for a little jog at the end of the day. I can still get bored though, so I keep an eye out for new twists: a funky pair of socks, new equipment, and …
Have lunch with the Human Baton
Things are busy here at My Brilliant Mistakes HQ, and I apologize for the even-lighter-than-usual posting. Given that I’m very busy, it’s about time for me to cram something strange and needlessly time-consuming into the schedule. Right on schedule: I’ve signed up to help transport the Human Baton for a leg of his cross country …