Coffee, ice cream, and wine

From a Yahoo! News story: "NEW YORK – Starbucks Corp. said Thursday it is wiping its name from one of its Seattle-area stores and adding alcohol to the menu. The Seattle-based gourmet coffee chain said it is changing the name of one of its existing stores in its hometown to a name that reflects the neighborhood location. The store will be called 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea. It will open next week and will serve coffee and tea as well as wine and beer." If it's not terribly expensive, I'll stop in regularly. I will let them know Canadian beer is my favorite. They should also hire waitresses like this wholesome young woman, no?

Impulse buying

I have this advertisement from something called Green Mountain Coffee. It's one of those gourmet coffee distributors. Nothing wrong with that, of course. They offer a Keurig brand coffeemaker that brews one cup of coffee at $99.95. The coffeemaker is specially designed to accept one-cup packets. The company offers to send you $23.00 worth of packets provided you purchase the brewer. Shipping is free. I already have two brewers (one is still new), but my buying impulses still tell me I should buy. That's not the brewer, of course - it's the Hammer Stradivarius. You can't buy that on impulse unless you've got $3,853,211.00 cash.