First thing in the early morning. An elixir for the soul.

With a healthy dollop of real cream. Preferable enjoyed on the deck while reading a good book. Then it is back to the ever ending yard and garden tasks.

And has gotten me through this quarantine

...coffee wasnt what I reached for...

...I hate when that happens. I've been having anxiety dreams almost every night. Last night I dreamed I swam from New Jersey or some place to the Manhattan shore. I've barely even been in that area. How would I know what shore it was? Or how I somehow ended up there when I was trying to travel from Caldwell, Texas to home? Crazy stuff. Almost every night since this virus. Yes, coffee is real and calming, comforting.

The only place you could come out of the water, after a swim across the Hudson River, is the upper west side - just south of the G.W. Bridge. You can get in the water at Palisades Park and float down just after high tide.

had peed in a corner of the bedroom. I am finally having my coffee.

Dog poo in your robot vac had to have been worse, though.

just turn it on when you want it. I got rid of my robot vac because it gets stuck everywhere and kept bumping into things at odd times making noise.

Reality does not exist before coffee.

drinking that coffee your feet weren't resting in a puddle of water!

Get'jer self a roaster and have some real fun.

I like mine quite light - hard to find pre-roasted. Also, I prefer "La Magnolia" beans from Costa Rica. If you roast 'em just right, they have a very chocolatey flavor.

I mix with some store bought city roast for the gringos in the house.

I drink a lot of it!

It also helps to coax material out of my tube, if you know what I mean.

According to my supposed "genetic traits" at 23andMe, I'm genetically predisposed to drinking it.

And all of those traits have been very accurate EXCEPT my hair. I'm SUPPOSED to have a thick head of hair, damn it! Lol.

I took it, following the directions, and sent it in. They finally wrote me back saying the test had failed.
So they sent me another test. I sent that one in, with the same result--nothing.
They said no more tests for me. I became convinced that I'm not of this world.

I'd think the inner-cheek swabs would be more problematic.

I brushed my teeth and didn't eat anything for about an hour before I spit into the tube, to help reduce other biological material at least to some degree.

I assume they gave you a full refund, right?

and Native American.

I didn't plan to ever take those tests, but my sister's children took the DNA test from MyHeritageDNA (which was the cheapest) and their ethnicity estimates came back as mostly Scandinavian. Then my sister seemed to imply that my previous genealogy research might be wrong, despite how I knew it was rock-solid with original source material. (And the ancestors were almost entirely from the British Isles.)

So I took that test too, and my ethnicity estimate was even more Scandinavian! About 80%, I think.

Then I researched the different tests, and discovered that MyHeritage had the smallest "reference population" (people of known ethnic background) by far! At least at that time. Maybe it's better now?

23andMe had the largest reference population by far, and the ethnicity results from them were MUCH more in agreement with my known ancestry. I bought a test for my sister too, and her results were very similar to mine. (And she was correctly identified as my sister too.)

Later took the Ancestry test as well, and the results "made sense" from them too. They didn't have as big of a reference population as 23andMe either, but much better than MyHeritage. They supplement it with DNA comparisons to other people at Ancestry who submitted their family trees, though, and they have a HUGE database of those people.

Edit: The 23andMe test was helpful for genealogy too. Some "Ashkenazi Jewish" showed up for me and my sister. So I looked through my old research, and realized that I never knew the origin of one of my ancestors with a very unusual surname. German origin? I had no clue. Then I looked through the records from Ellis Island (long after my ancestor had arrived here), and everyone with that surname in those records was listed as Jewish!

Edit2: And I later found out how the Jewish ancestor got here. Found his family among the "Poor Palatines" who arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany, after looking for some variations of how that surname was spelled.

carries Sickle Cell Trait.
The blood bank calls me every time they have a Sickle Cell patient who needs surgery.

So I need to find out where that came from. It is not limited to African populations; it is found all around the Mediterranean. Supposedly it can make malaria less severe.

It's about double the price of the ancestry-only results, but I know that sickle-cell is one of the many genetic conditions they check. (Since you already know that you have it, that particular information wouldn't be very useful to you.)

A cheaper route for health reports, if desired, would be to just order an ancestry-only report, then sending the raw DNA data to a much cheaper site like "Promethease".

I've been most pleased with 23andMe, but different people have different preferences. There's been complaints about privacy in regard to 23andMe in the past, but that wasn't a deal-breaker for me since I was already "putting it out there" by getting tested through anyone. I just think they're the most accurate overall. They will update the results "forever", free-of-charge, as their modeling improves too.

Edit:

ISOGG gives 23andMe the highest rating for accuracy too.
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart

They all have positives and negatives. If genealogy research is the main focus, then Ancestry might be a better choice. It depends on what a person wants.

Funny...the water-running-down-the-wall dream is one I often have during times of high anxiety. I was told it generally has to do with feelings of not being in control--of not being able to keep things at bay. These are definitely times that warrant such a dream. I hope you'll be feeling better...have a good day!

I built my house in stages. First as a crash shack/garage for a young and single bricklayer.
Then added here and there as I gradually had a few more bucks and realized I wasn't leaving
for a while. Then children and three more bedrooms. Sometimes roof leaks seems impossible
to locate. They cause damage and really anger Jeannie.

Now we are members of the Atlas Coffee Club and love it!

So far, single origin beans from Indonesia and Tanzania.

makes getting up worthwhile. I have to get up anyway but having the best treat to start the day is reassurance that I can get through whatever else comes next, even if I can't get through it when it happens.

When we can't get coffee anymore, I'll have to go through withdrawals but I'll find some kind of beverage to make my day I trust.

Right now I have whole beans and some coarse grind for my French Press, and I am planning to get some more next time we shop.

I am also a lover of mild roasted coffee. French Pressed mild roast coffee is very very nice.

which is what I refer to as withdrawals. I have weaned myself off the brew in the past and at this point, I don't know how willing I'll be when the time comes for that reason alone!