(Joseph Kubera) wrote in message ...
When I am working at the computer or reading a book, I always
have a mug of tea close.


This reminds me -- tea can be an effective measure of one's accomplishment.

I'm a pianist, and often take a cup or mug to the piano when I'm practicing. I
can tell how hard I've been working by how cool the tea has gotten when I take
the next sip.

Joe

Zephyrus replied:
I don't trust myself around porcelain tea cups when I'm at the piano. :-)

I get the feeling that Joe knows his way around a piano. Although in my
case, even though I am pretty familiar with a computer keyboard I have still
managed to slosh some tea onto it which caused a short which in turn caused
such a long string (of "g"s, if I remember) to be fed into my computer that
it brought it down. Impressed my sysadmins, who previously thought that it
was impossible to do in that manner.

But piano playing involves grace in a way that computer hacking does not
(or, based on personal experience, forbids)? His tea cup is probably safe.

Right now I just brewed a pot of Pouchong (Bao Zhong) from Taiwan's
redoubtable and blessed Wen Shan region, grown by a colleague's father's
friend. It's a year and a half old and fading, but still not bad. Ten
Ren sells something like it. It is kind of pricy (even when bought through
the grapevine, like I did). But, you get your money's worth with multiple
infusions.

Good health to you all. Winter just snickered at us in Madison. I look out
my window on the 7th floor and see a whirlwind of leaves.

Rick.

Rick wrote,

I get the feeling that Joe knows his way around a piano.

Well, when it comes to tea, the cup sits on a small table next to the piano. I
wouldn't dare put it ON the piano (having paid $6K to get the piano refinished
2 years ago).

Joe

(Joseph Kubera) wrote in message ...
Rick wrote,

I get the feeling that Joe knows his way around a piano.

Well, when it comes to tea, the cup sits on a small table next to the piano. I
wouldn't dare put it ON the piano (having paid $6K to get the piano refinished
2 years ago).

Joe

I was referring to the safety of the cups from me. :-) There are times
and composers (Samuel Barber leaps to mind) that make me feel like
breaking/dropping something . . .

I am yet but a student, so please excuse my silliness . . .

Z

Took a side trip to the Grand Canyon on my way out to the kitchen
to drink that pot of tea.

I've been told that the best way to make a long story short is
not to tell it in the first place. Seems I've passed that point
already, but I'll try to keep the rest of the story short.

The woman I visited all those years ago took a tin of tea from
one of the dresser drawers and spooned long wiry leaves into a
thin-walled cobalt-and-gold teapot. She added boiling water and
let the tea steep for about six minutes. The she poured the tea
into tall glasses, added big dollops of cherry jam and handed one
of the glasses to me. It was the first whole leaf tea I'd ever
had and was what started me down the path toward my tea
addiction. She called it caravan tea, so I'm guessing it was a
Russian caravan blend. It was so full of exotic (to me at the
time) flavors and wonderful aroma.

I've had all kinds of teas since then, including several
different Russian Caravan blends, but I've never been able to
duplicate the flavors of that first real tea.

Despite youthful forays into the underworld of soft drinks and
going the herbal tisane route during my hippy years, I've never
gotten over my love of teas...nor do I wish to, either.

(c)2003 Martha McLemore

On 9 Oct 2003 22:51:20 -0700, (Eric) wrote:


What do find your consuming on a daily basis? Your max?

4 cups a day. 2 is my minimum amount in hot or cold weather.