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Eat your heart out, Marcel
Feb. 11th, 2003 09:02 pmAmong the items I looked at while shopping yesterday in Durango was a substitute for caffeinated coffee. Of course, decaf was one of the first things I picked up, but I was disappointed in seeing that of all the different kinds of roasts, the only one available in decaf was Columbian.
I was a little skittish about buying a whole container of decaf, since it's a pain in the butt to make just one or two cups in our coffemaker, and to do that with both the decaf and regular coffees sounded like too much work.
(In retrospect, I find it interesting that I didn't for a moment consider decaf instant coffee. Hmmm.)
My meanderings in front of the coffee section came to an end when I spied a jar of Postum on the shelf.
Postum is not coffee, it's not tea. It's an instant, caffeine-free "hot beverage" made of wheat bran, wheat, molasses, and a little maltodextrin.
I bought it as a silly way, I suppose, of remembering my grandmother, who drank the stuff throughout my childhood. I vaguely remember her preparing cups of it for herself and for me, whenever I would visit, out of a jar that is much smaller than the one I bought yesterday.
Anyway, I made myself a cup this morning. I added some stevia extract as sweetener, and some "Rice Dream" as creamer. I must admit, I don't remember the taste of it from my childhood, but for a moment, I did remember my grandmother.
* * * Parts of the translation I did today went smoothly; other parts required a lot of fooling around on Google to verify chemical names of compounds, although I must admit, the Google searches are now more confirmatory than exploratory. I suppose, if I had to, I could have just rendered the compound names and have been done with them, with very few errors (if any).
I shut down my desktop once it became clear that I have 6 pages of tables left to do, and a couple of paragraphs on the last page. In the worst possible case, there may actually be one more page to translate, one that was omitted from the fax transmittal somewhere along the line.
* * * The daily surf brought news of Iraq's rejection of the fledgling Franco-German plan to beef up inspection teams and send an "occupation" force to help with the inspections. No surprise there.
What was surprising was the news that the leak of the plan really upset the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, who apparently had not been informed of it by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Some sources hint that this slight may be the straw that breaks the back of the German coalition running the country. We'll see.
Cheers...
I was a little skittish about buying a whole container of decaf, since it's a pain in the butt to make just one or two cups in our coffemaker, and to do that with both the decaf and regular coffees sounded like too much work.
(In retrospect, I find it interesting that I didn't for a moment consider decaf instant coffee. Hmmm.)
My meanderings in front of the coffee section came to an end when I spied a jar of Postum on the shelf.
Postum is not coffee, it's not tea. It's an instant, caffeine-free "hot beverage" made of wheat bran, wheat, molasses, and a little maltodextrin.
I bought it as a silly way, I suppose, of remembering my grandmother, who drank the stuff throughout my childhood. I vaguely remember her preparing cups of it for herself and for me, whenever I would visit, out of a jar that is much smaller than the one I bought yesterday.
Anyway, I made myself a cup this morning. I added some stevia extract as sweetener, and some "Rice Dream" as creamer. I must admit, I don't remember the taste of it from my childhood, but for a moment, I did remember my grandmother.
I shut down my desktop once it became clear that I have 6 pages of tables left to do, and a couple of paragraphs on the last page. In the worst possible case, there may actually be one more page to translate, one that was omitted from the fax transmittal somewhere along the line.
What was surprising was the news that the leak of the plan really upset the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, who apparently had not been informed of it by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Some sources hint that this slight may be the straw that breaks the back of the German coalition running the country. We'll see.
Cheers...
