Ceiling fans don't start clicking because something is loose. They start clicking because your brain has officially run out of reasonable things to think about and decided to assign meaning to random household sounds at the worst possible hour.
There you are, dead tired, staring at the ceiling at 2 AM, and suddenly your fan sounds like it's sending morse code. Your brain, running on fumes and whatever sad excuse for coffee you had six hours ago, starts building an entire mystery around it. Was it always doing that? Is something wrong? Should you Google it? And now you're forty minutes deep into a ceiling fan forum from 2009 and no closer to sleep.
A properly caffeinated brain is basically a really good editor. It reads the room, cuts the nonsense, and keeps you focused on what actually matters. A tired, under-caffeinated brain though? That thing is a conspiracy theorist with a whiteboard and too much free time. It connects dots that don't exist and turns a slightly wobbly fan blade into an episode of something paranormal.
Coffee doesn't just wake you up. It sharpens the filter between what's real and what your exhausted imagination invented at an unreasonable hour.
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Roaster Notes:
Moja Coffee (https://www.mojacoffee.com/ )
Vancouver, BC
In their own words: “Our company was largely influenced by the coffee scenes in San Francisco and Milan. Our humble beginnings however were about as far away from those places as you can get. It all started in the basement of our home in North Vancouver. This is where Doug Finley and Andrew Wentzel started the long journey of what is now Moja Coffee.
In the first few months before the company started, we lived, ate and breathed everything coffee. We travelled to Africa to visit coffee plantations and also spent time in San Francisco to train on Probat roasters. We attended coffee shows and probably walked into every major cafe from here to Seattle.
In the spring of 2004, we decided to name the company Moja, which is the Swahili word for “one”. The name represented what we believed was the best way to showcase coffee and it honoured family roots (Andrew’s father was born in Moshi Tanzania).”
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Staying sane one cup at a time,
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