Coffee Achiever

This is how my day needs to begin - with coffee of some sort. It doesn't have to be fancy, either.


If you don't know what a Coffee Achiever is, you are under 40 and can just hush about it. Go watch the commercial on YouTube and try to figure out how ELO, Cicely Tyson, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Bowie made sense to the casting director.

Anyway -

• A soy mocha with a little bit of whip isn't an everyday thing - that's for Payday Friday.


• The RedEye is for when the ideas won't shut up and let me sleep. I still have to be functional the Morning After, though.


• The everyday drink is good, old-fashioned drip coffee for which I pay D.C. prices (10% tax?) because it's better than the stuff in the breakroom.