Barista Action Figure
Barista Action Figure: “Barista Action Figure
Meet Nico. She’s the barista who pulls your morning espresso. No other barista in town makes a latte like Nico. Her beans are always freshly ground, she never tamps the filter basket too tight and her foam is perfect: thick and decadent, like a pillow of edible clouds. Each 5-1/4′ tall hard plastic Barista Action Figure has moveable arms and legs and comes with two interchangeable heads and two different sized cups (tall and grande) that she can hold in her hand. Comes on an illustrated blistercard with Nico’s history and other valuable information on the back.”
We decided to have poker night…
…and I’m providing the cards…hee hee
Nude Male Playing Cards: “A deck of 54 playing cards with naked men on them. By naked men, we mean really naked men. These are not dudes with their penises under a towel, these are some naked dudes.”
Here is a deck of cards that are a must-have for a bachelor party. There are 54 of them if you count the two jokers and each one has a naked woman on them. Most of the naked women are actually attractive in this deck.
These cards can be fun to have at a bachelor party because instead of saying deuces are wild you can say “women wearing shoes” are wild or something much filthier.
Cool stuff.
stump the phlebotomist
I don’t have any veins… it took 3 people 40 minutes to finally get blood out of me for bloodwork at my dr.’s appointment today.
…and they think I have an ulcer.
I don’t know that its that simple of a diagnosis. But we’ll see how their ideas pan out for a while.
I need a nap. I’m wrung out.
Starbucks Gossip: Tipping debate: How much should you tip for a cup of coffee?
Starbucks Gossip: Tipping debate: How much should you tip for a cup of coffee?
I love these people telling baristas that all we ever did was pour a cup of coffee and that any booger-picking moron can do that.
Sure.
That’s all it was.
Its not like I learned 90% of my regulars’ drinks (and I can still walk around town and point out people and know their drinks-I don’t remember their names anymore, but I could tell you how much white mocha they like in their latte.), its not like I closed the store one night and then opened the next and made over 400 drinks in an hour.
Its not like I mopped the store every day, stacked cups, sorted the weekly order of coffee and supplies, grind all the coffee for the drip coffee, specialty grind for customers, talk people through figuring out what they would probably like when they had no clue. I didn’t lug 60 gallons of milk over a 5 hour period or run the milk pitchers back to the sterilizer because they were ooky mid morning rush and replace them with clean ones before we normally did it. I didn’t re-steam your milk because I didn’t think it was perfect and still get you out the door in under 4 minutes.
I’m obviously not smart enough for that.
…and most of all, what really counts is that I let you live when I made all that coffee BEFORE I had my own at 6 in the freakin’ morning (I usually didn’t even get a break until 11 a.m.)
You didn’t care that I was a technical writer who was making only marginally more than I would have made on unemployment where I could have sat on my ass and sucked up the tax money you paid in to the system. You don’t care that I did this cheerfully (well, as cheerfully as I can be that early in the morning pre-caffeination). I’m obviously not smart enough to speak 4 languages (and be able to swear in 7). You don’t care that I lived on 5 hours a sleep in general even when I had the flu.
I wasn’t concerned with tips (though I appreciated them) but these people who are telling me that as a barista I was just a stupid coffee pouring imbecile and I did nothing to earn a tip…
Well, there’s a ring of hell for them all. And it don’t include coffee either.
Yes, there are some schmucks out there, but there are also a bunch of good people, too.
(And just FYI-one of the languages I speak is italian.
Grande means big.
Venti means 20, as in “there are 20 oz. of liquid in a venti cup”.
We didn’t just make that up you assbite. Get a clue to the fact that there are other cultures.)
Oh and as for the cleanliness of the bathroom… when there’s only one and people yell at you when you keep them out of it to clean it (even for 5 minutes)… you are officially on your own.
So stop pissing on the floors you animals. I CERTAINLY was not paid enough for that.
and Kramer weighs in on the debate…
better… but….
I’m fully expecting more curveballs from the universe.
Its sense of humor, as I have mentioned before, is perverse.
So, I have food and I’m not at work and the commute is over… I will be cautiously relaxed… for now.
Recent Earthquakes – Map for 122-38
Perhaps I’m just being pessimistic… but I think we are due for an earthquake that is noteworthy fairly soon.
CNN.com – Eat more whole grains, exercise more – Aug 27, 2004
CNN.com – Eat more whole grains, exercise more – Aug 27, 2004: “Unlike the current guidelines, issued in 2000, the new recommendations do not specifically tell people to be moderate in their use of added sugars, such as regular sodas. Sugar provides energy, the report noted.”
No, simple sugars provide QUICK energy. Slow release sugars, such as WHOLE GRAINS and PROTEIN are what you want. Most people don’t distinguish between sugars generated by meat and sugars generated by Snickers bars.
Quit puckering up and smooching the ass of the grain and soda lobby, you puerile pansy ass-monkeys.
Don’t make my hungry, cranky and PMS’ing butt come over there and kick your butt til it bleeds.
I’m such a pleasant person to be around tday.
waiting for godot, searching for feces.
oh look, 2 people found my site by searching on the word “feces”.
That really makes my day, I just can’t tell you…
(I know, it was because of that Bushism urban legend, but still.)
I have to keep reminding myself…
that it is UNETHICAL to cast a spell that gives the pox and many papercuts to those bastards who threw out my yogurt from the company fridge…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!
(yesterday. I would have posted earlier, but I had a mood on…)
oh goodie.
if you hadn’t noticed I’m not happy.
..and now, I’ve been informed that the yogurt that I had in the fridge at work was dumped (without notice) last weekend… and I have nothing to eat.
I can’t go get food (they closed the local grocery store) and no one else has the yogurt that I had here… now I’m upset, hungry and suffering through a Monday all at the same time.
Fuck everything.
for those of you keeping score…
Universe: 50 Fredlet:0
New York Post Online Edition: gossip
New York Post Online Edition: gossip: “LONGTIME Republican operative Roger Stone is missing his first Republican National Convention since 1968 because he’s ‘fed up with the negativity of American politics.’ ‘It’s pathetic that we are fighting over John Kerry’s war record in Vietnam and George W. Bush’s service in the National Guard given that there are a bunch of Islamic maniacs who want to wipe us off the face of the earth,’ Stone explained. ‘I’ll be on a beach in Barcelona.’”
I fully understand his disgust…
…and ew. Yet another reason not to like Stephen Baldwin.
“‘ THE dearth of A-list celebrities attending the Republican National Convention has unleashed a bevy of B-listers on the town, including former liberal Stephen Baldwin.
Though he doesn’t admit to being a Republican, the actor is throwing his support to the team of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney under the banner of his new, born-again Christianity.
“I’m there to support the man I believe has the most faith. That’s who I’m voting for,” Baldwin told PAGE SIX’s Lisa Marsh. “I believe the next president should be a guy w’ho is being led by God. I believe there is one guy, and that’s the guy I want to vote for.”
I’m NOT voting for someone who says that god told him to do this.
That’s pretty presumptuous to say you have a direct line to your personal big guy.
…and yes, my weekend was possibly the worst weekend I’ve had in about 5 years.
Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
Latest Business News and Financial Information | Reuters.com
“The average U.S. retail price of gasoline rose slightly over the last two weeks to almost $1.88 a gallon — the first increase reported since late May, according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 8,000 gas stations.”
…and I’ve been paying over 2 bucks a gallon for a couple of years now.
