Oct 01 2008
Contributing school
Well here I am trying to be funny on a gorgeous sunny fall day in Denver that still feels like summer . Its been great to be out and about, having my weekly cup of coffee x 3 with some really lovely people. I was reading last night about coffee inhibiting some kind of beta type brain waves BUT today life seemed better, the future manageable and the mountains a little less obstacle like. OF COURSE this all could have been due to the fact that I had been wearing my orange biking sun glasses and thinking I was BONO walking thru K Mart with a beautiful women.
ORANGE could just do that to my brain waves and maybe my thinking it was coffee is not right @ all.
I have come to love copy opps! I mean coffee, BUt I don’t drink it daily, only on special occasions. TWAS funny though, last week Susan and I went to have coffee @ Starbucks, we ordered a couple of HazelNut lattes. Well part way thru sitting outside in the sun discussing sugar and the ills it has added to society WE realised we weren’t drinking HAZELNUT lattes @ all but iced lattes. Being a couple of onto it Da Vinci’s that kind of oblivious may seem hard to believe. After a brief discussion, me wussing out not to bother BUT Susan being the up front consumer she is , inside she went in to the guy and pointed this out. We hadn’t ordered iced coffee. They laughed together as you do around Susan, (otherwise known as The ‘Q’. Q for qwerky, Qute (very), Qwackers and Qwarazy and very to all those too). Afer laughing the guy gave us 2 MORE coffees PLUS our old ones BACK for good PR saying they only cost the company 6 cents. I thought MATE !! you shouldn’t tell us that kind of info. This was before the 700 billion dollar package of course!. So now we are FOUR coffees (and 24 cents real cost) but wait there’s MORE.
See what ORANGE has done to me today. Here’s a photo to prove it.

AND NOW back to the story.
We are outside in the sun again, listening to Russian being spoken at a table next to us WHEN sipping away and still thinking about sugar and Susan says “HazelNut lattes are sweet enough anyway”. I think or taste and go hmmmmmmm……………we realise THESE R NOT hazelnut lattes either. WELL Susan can’t resist and off she goes again to take on daddy Starbucks.
Again she returns with two more real HazelNut lattes PLUS our old ones. SO now we are SIX. We have them in a nice tray holding 4 cups. So off we go. We had paid around 7 buks for the TWO coffees, we cost the company, 36cents and we walked away with SIX cups of coffee, two of which we had drunk of course.
Not bad, especially since we drunk them all that day and managed to sleep that night.
So that’s the coffee story.
MY THINKING I WAS FUNNY in my blog title today had nothing to do with coffee BUT was becoz I am using Adobe Contribute to update my blog now…..which while its a learning curve, I am finding it is quite a bit easier………
Hence Contributing School…………….ha ha hee hhe…..Does anyone else get my word plays or am I in a class of my own???? Not the top class either. I am sure it is healthy to find yourself funny…..but some people when they find out you think you are funny suddenly become serious and you aren’t FUNNY@ALL. TODAY I am funny……I can laugh at myself………and may it continue. The DOWs falling, I am 7,000 miles from my family and home…..I am ON TOUR In AMERICA, which could be depressing if you listened to the news all day, BUT I can laugh today………..that’s gotta be good.
So I think this Contributing School is great. Makes updating my blog and schpeeling easier. I need to schpeel, there’s so much to think about here. THANKS Adobe, I am glad I am in your class.

Hey thanks for reading this. Please leave a comment or register. Feeling like you are talking to yourself may be practice for my solitary confinement one day but don’t be shy…………. why am I the only loudmouth in the world.
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Coffee!! and having a great day. How could you cope with all that coffee inside you. Not a coffee drinker myself except for when I was younger and when we use to go into the bush I always took my tin of ‘Nestles Coffee and Milk’. I got addicted to the ’stuff’. Couldn’t do with out it. Was always of a nice creamy texture and when you were tired out from tramping all day or wet through to the skin, this ‘coffee and milk’ from the tin with hot water from the billy on the fire, was ‘bliss’ for the body as we rambled over the events of the day. You’ve got me reminising now so I’ll get off that and head back to my first thoughts from your story and that is this.
Why is it that women are able to acheive more easily than men in these sort sanarios like your Susan did? You sat back and enjoyed you maleness while your lady succeeded in getting free replacement coffees and still got to keep the ‘bootie’ as well. You enjoyed her ‘femininity’ winning this guy over. You read the situation well and brought credit to us blokes in being able to sit still and allowing your lady to acheive in this one. Cheers to hazelnut lattes.