For months we have suffered through 100 degree summer days. These days were even a part of September. It is now October, and yes it is nice and chilly, I mean 80 degrees.... wow. The other day I saw a woman in Harps wearing a puffy winter jacket and earmuffs, I'm not making this up, you just can't make this stuff up. I just got back from an evening bikeride out in this chilly weather, and on my way back I saw a white guy wearing Timberlands. Even though I be cycling fast, I was scared for my life in the moment. A white male in Timberlands is not a force to be reckoned with. You could say this is psychotic fashion sense for a caucasion man, or you could say it's an inconsistent fashion sense.

A lot of things in life are very inconsistent, and I feel like as humans we strive for consistancy. I'm talking the workout routine, the healthy eating, the strong mindset, everything we usually end up dropping the ball on. Am I consistent in any of the previously mentioned? No. But you would be crazy to claim that I don't have any consistency. In fact for years there's been one thing I've done every single morning, and that's play videogames and drink coffee.

There's something about the combination that I have always loved. You can't go wrong with combining two things that are great alone, together. It's like in Seinfeld when George combined food and love-making. A great game with a great cup of coffee is my Costanza combo. I'm already excited by the opportunity to sit down and play a game, but then I have this medium-hot dark colombian liquid brewed from fresh Himalayan waters hit my taste buds, sending earthy, acidic, and caramel notes to my gustatory cortex. Pair this with the enjoyment of progressing through a game and it's like a double dopamine death punch.

I can tell a substantial difference between a day without this legendary combo and a day with it. It's hard to explain, but days without it just feel very dull, whereas days with it feel more energetic, grounding, and lighthearted. I have done this for years and I have no plans on stopping! Here recently (despite my frustrations), I beat Super Metroid for the first time. This was done just by playing an hour a day before work with a hot brew in hand. This is a beautiful SNES game, and I see why it's held up there as one of the greats (I will say it again, despite my raging frustrations with it). I enjoyed learning the unique mechanics the game had to offer and enjoyed how nothing about it was linear (I shouted the f-word so many times during the Ridley boss fight, it echoed loudly and my neighbors definitely heard me). Oh yeah, great soundtrack too.

Anyways, I love coffee and games and I think it's cool that I haven't lost the identity I developed as a child. The end.