Tuesday, August 16, 2005
So here’s the plan: I currently drink maybe four coffees a week from one or other of the cafes within walking distance of the office. I rotate my choices, based on a range of factors. If I also need a breakfast burrito, then it’s the Meridien (where they wisely offer a cyclists’ discount if you’ve come on the bike).
If I riding, but have already breakfasted, then I’ll swing by the Holy Spirit coffee stand round the corner from the Eldorado Hotel, and carefully ride through the Plaza with my coffee stuck in the bottle cage.
If I’m on foot, it’ll maybe be Sage’s coffee stand on Marcy, and now the new Caffe e Gelato place near the library (although I haven’t made up my mind about the quality there).
At each place, I’ll drop $2.50 – $3.00 maybe on the coffee, which got me thinking. If I cut it down to one or two coffees a week and put the difference in David’s Gaggia Fund, then pretty soon I’ll be on the way to something nice for the kitchen at home (plus a burr grinder which my new friends at coffeegeek.com assure me is almost as important as the espresso machine itself).
Of course I could just go out and buy the damn machine, stop drinking coffee out altogether, and have recouped my outlay even quicker, but the saving up somehow seems more moral, especially as your own espresso machine is such a ridiculous luxury anyway. I have to earn it somehow.