Got Caffeine?

While my thoughts get themselves a bit more organized, I'll redeploy the odd useful morsel(s) as they occur to me....

Here's a fun rant from a few hundred years ago.

"Certainly our Countrymen's pallates are become as Fanatical as their Brains - how else is't possible they should Apostatize from the good old primitive way of ale-drinking, to run a Whoreing after such variety of destructive Foreign Liquors, to trifle away their time, scald their Chops, and spend their Money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty bitter stinking, nauseous Puddle water Yet (as all Witches have their Charms) so this ugly Turkish Enchantress by certain Invisible Wyres attracts both Rich and Poor..."

-excerpt from the Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674

-L.

Ex Cinere Ignis Exsuscitatur

Greetings. Today is the first day of the rest of this blog. Eventually I will add photo galleries and links and all that, to partly make up for my poor senile (all right, vegetative) and languishing website. But, I also like having my own private domain space at spoobles.net, so hopefully that feeble beginning and this feeble resuscitation will help regenerate momentum and ultimately result in something better there, too.