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Last week, one of my espresso machines stopped working. I have a back-up, so we fired that up and I figured that I'd have the money to pay the repair guy next week.

Except that the back-up machine stopped working yesterday.

This morning's marquee:
Oh No! Broken Espresso Machine! All Drip $1

The repair guy got here at 8:30, and a little before 10am, I changed the sign to:

Yea! Espresso Machine is Fixed! Tall Latte $2

Yesterday, staring at the two broken espresso machines, I had a moment of clarity. Well, first, I had a moment of heart-racing panic. Then everything in my head just slowed the fuck down. And it's stayed that way.

A while back, I wrote to a friend I've always been at my best on shifting sands; it's true. When there's an emergency, I have maybe four heart beats of panic, followed by calm clarity. I don't know if it's adrenalin or serotonin -- maybe the adrenalin triggers a cascade of serotonin? Does this mean that my brain has trained me to seek chaos, or has the chaos changed my brain? My childhood was tense but not particularly chaotic -- though maybe I'm not a good judge of that. Or is it something else? How does the chemistry of the mania and the migraines tie in?

East:
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

West:
Grand Latte $3.15

East:
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West:
Tall Chai Latte
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