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Coffee back on sale
Jul. 3rd, 2025 15:40I buy coffee from a company by the name of Fara. It is an Austin roaster that gets the coffee I like from Nicarauga. For the past few years I've been waiting until they have a sale of 20% and buying 10 pounds of beans at a time. Costs about $80. Free shipping. If Amazon carries it (and now always) it costs $100 for 10 pounds and free shipping.
This is the one area that I can say the tarrifs have screwed us. Coffee has gotten more expensive and they no longer offer 20% off. And today it is not even available on Amazon.
But maybe it is getting a bit better. They had a 15% off offer to celebrate the 4th. Good a reason as any. I bought my usual 10 pounds and was happy to have the choice.
Meanwhile, even as I write this, I'm wondering if I need something different. I don't mind the Chrome but the graphics of this mini are so slow there is a very discernable and annoying lag in loading pages. Enough that I'd rather use my phone for some things. I think the combination of having only 4GB of RAM and running a Celeron means things just run slowly. I opened the diag app and it shows most of my RAM being used and about half of my CPU and I'm not doing much.
Five days until Amazon Prime Days so I'll likely just spend the time looking at choices. I think the Asus is what I want but I need more RAM and a faster processor. The price is a couple of hundred bucks more but will be worth it. We'll see what the prices look like when the sale starts.
Dana had her CT this morning. So nice that things moved fast. The results are already in and she does not seem to have any infection but has some pockets of fluid that might be three different things. They have to aspirate to find out. Pro: No major infection noted. Con: they need to aspirate. And we're still not certain. But it is progress. The doc put in a referral to 'interventional radiology' so they can do the aspiration. And we have a prescription for some high falutin antibiotics. All good and all moving forward.
And ALL BEFORE the long weekend. Typically Dana has some major thing on a Friday late or over the weekend on a long weekend. So this is a plus to have things moving before the weekend.
We have a wonderful doc who finally got, I think, fed up with the emails going back and forth and decided to jump in. So nice.
This is the one area that I can say the tarrifs have screwed us. Coffee has gotten more expensive and they no longer offer 20% off. And today it is not even available on Amazon.
But maybe it is getting a bit better. They had a 15% off offer to celebrate the 4th. Good a reason as any. I bought my usual 10 pounds and was happy to have the choice.
Meanwhile, even as I write this, I'm wondering if I need something different. I don't mind the Chrome but the graphics of this mini are so slow there is a very discernable and annoying lag in loading pages. Enough that I'd rather use my phone for some things. I think the combination of having only 4GB of RAM and running a Celeron means things just run slowly. I opened the diag app and it shows most of my RAM being used and about half of my CPU and I'm not doing much.
Five days until Amazon Prime Days so I'll likely just spend the time looking at choices. I think the Asus is what I want but I need more RAM and a faster processor. The price is a couple of hundred bucks more but will be worth it. We'll see what the prices look like when the sale starts.
Dana had her CT this morning. So nice that things moved fast. The results are already in and she does not seem to have any infection but has some pockets of fluid that might be three different things. They have to aspirate to find out. Pro: No major infection noted. Con: they need to aspirate. And we're still not certain. But it is progress. The doc put in a referral to 'interventional radiology' so they can do the aspiration. And we have a prescription for some high falutin antibiotics. All good and all moving forward.
And ALL BEFORE the long weekend. Typically Dana has some major thing on a Friday late or over the weekend on a long weekend. So this is a plus to have things moving before the weekend.
We have a wonderful doc who finally got, I think, fed up with the emails going back and forth and decided to jump in. So nice.