Virtual Reality
17 December 2007
A few bags of high quality 100% Kona Coffee direct from the farm in
Hawaii makes an excellent Christmas gift. Our coffee makes an
excellent gift any time of year but it is especially popular during the
holiday season. That is great because, of course, we love selling a
lot of coffee. On the other hand, it sure has been keeping us busy.
I would take a picture of all the piles of coffee we've been roasting,
packaging and mailing except my camera broke so you will just have to
use your imagination. Imagine the entire house smelling like freshly
roasted coffee. Imagine stacks of boxes everywhere and extra trips to the
post office. Imagine finally finishing a pile of orders just to find
several more waiting to be filled. It's great to have so many orders, if
only the farm work wasn't piling up while we're busy shipping coffee. I
tried to imagine the farm work doing itself but that didn't help, maybe I need
to imagine harder.
Life on the farm isn't all work, we still find time for friends, family
and visitors. We recently spent the day in our
cartoon outfits
while giving a farm tour to our friends the Simpsons. It was quite fun until
Bart broke the tractor (Doh!) and Homer drank all the coffee (Woohoo!).
Lisa and our girls spend some time playing the saxamaphone then training the
chickens how to pick coffee (eeexcellent) while Marge and Valerie went to town
for some shopping and new hairdos (HA-ha!).
Overall the Simpsons had a good time and said they'd recommend Kona Earth coffee
to their friends. We're looking forward to visits from the Hills and the
Griffins. We also plan to add international shipping support to our website
which is good because we've had repeated coffee requests from someone named Cartman
from Canada. He was a bit rude though which is unusual because most of our
Canadian customers are very friendly.
When not working on the farm, shipping coffee or entertaining guests, I
occasionally spend some time in cyber space. My favorite hang out is on
the Tichondrius server where some Horde friends and I like to hunt
dwarves, elves and other unsuspecting allies. I just made level 70 and
recently purchased a flying mount. I don't have much epic equipment
yet so I'm still gank-bait but I don't let that stop me. Maybe some
day I'll get good enough to be invited on a 20-man raid.
I apologize if none of that made sense to the reality-bound readers.
I'm talking about the computer game "World of Warcraft" (WoW). It is
more than just a computer game, it is pretty much virtual reality. I
find it far more entertaining than watching television. The world of
Azeroth is unbelievable huge and complex. The game has even experienced
things such as unexpected cyber-epidemics,
sparking interest and publications
from real-life scientists. Farm work keeps me from spending too much
time in cyberspace but I definitely would not recommend WoW to anybody with
addiction issues.
Anyways, I sent my camera off to Canon for repairs and the holiday shopping rush
should be over soon. That means we should get back to normal farm life
posts soon. In the mean time I have a few boxes of coffee to ship
then maybe I'll get online. It is the Feast of Winter Veil (i.e. Christmas)
in the world of Azeroth and I want to go to Ogrimmar to get a Mechanotoy pet.
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