140 Degree Coffee

Today's blog is long and boring... but then again, I don't care.

Fatty Vanilla Cafe Latte... i tried you for the first time yesterday. You tasted very smooth and kept me warm in the below freezing weather in Dallas. The caffeine kick you provided also helped with my alertness and made me have to pee half way through church. Thank you very much for your help and i expect that kind of help every time i drink you.

This was probably only my 3rd or 4th time in my life to actually drink coffee (first time ever was when i was 19 at a McDonald's in Paris). Unfortunatly, the stuff was very good... hopefully my addictive personality will not cause me to become addicted.

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This past weekend went very well. Friday night i had a work happy hour/planning event where we worked to plan out the entire year's events. Got stood up later that night... but then again, it wasn't intentional, so no worries :).

Saturday I was hooked to my favorite channel... MTV and wasted a lot of my day watching that. Went for a pathetic run where i continued to realize that in order to be in shape, you have to run more. Saturday night went to a new place called Times Ten with a new cool friend which was shorter period of time than i wanted, but the time was fun. If you've never been to Times Ten, think of it as a wine bar in a rich person's living room, pretty nice and comfy if you ask me. Later that night, I progressed to O bar and limited my drinking very well.

Sunday morning consisted of a fabulous breakfast at Cafe Brazil followed by Church. Yes I went to Church and it was probably the first time in at least 7 years that I've been. Wow has church changed. The beginning was like a rock concert and the people that played were really good. I was impressed and actually felt like i could get into the music as opposed to when i was a kid and we sang hymns that sounded like enya or something. Ed was a very interesting and insightful speaker, i guess it's just interesting to hear what he has to say. We'll have to see if i continue this streak of going, a new series starts next week, and it is supposed to be good if you can catch them all.


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Just got a call from that recruiter guy who sent me the email last week. Talked for a little bit about what I've done and where i want to go (I'm not 100% sure of this... but then again, who really is). Informed him that I'm very happy where I am and am not looking for anything really at the moment.

I'm sure that if i did pursue this, i could "cash in" my consulting experience value. But i had this conversation once a while back with our Managing Director about how basically you can leave a consulting place at just about any time in your career and probably make 10 -25% more. He called this cashing in your experience. Which i completely agree. But if i were to leave, i really feel that my learning would be capped and my career path would be flawed. Does that make me crazy? I guess that in my eyes I had planned to stay where I'm at now for at least 5 years prior to leaving. Money can't be everything in life, because in the short term, yes, I could probably make a lot more than i make now. But in the long term, would i be able to have the same opportunities that i have now and the great fun smart people i work with now. I don't think so. So I'm going to have to tell the guy no, which has never been something I'm good at, but then again, it's good practice for me.

You tired yet... because i am?

I think I'll make a Starbucks run shortly and pick myself up a cafe latte. sounds almost peachy. I'm pretty sure my latte wasn't 140 degrees, but supposedly that is when coffee is at it's best according to an expert in the field.