Slow roll.
In the first five minutes of wakeness, I don’t have much to offer in the way of basic human coordination. Let’s just say I can’t handle large, round items without dropping them. A child’s easy to grab toy would wind up on the floor without doubt.
About five minutes on, I have come around enough to perform the four-minute manual labor of brewing a pot of coffee, for which I am thankful.
Before I even get the coffee, I’ll be running at nearly full steam, though my fingertips will still be a little bit dull and fumbling.
Which is why I hope that I will get the coffee *before* I’m quite awake enough to notice that I ran out of beans a scoop or two too early.
Nothing worse than a weak brew to get you off on the wrong foot.
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I’m gathering that the act of brewing the coffee is itself an activity that helps to wake you up, thus rendering this tip moot – but I find having a coffee maker with a timer tremendously helpful. I’m able to set it all up the night before, while I’m actually awake and functional, so when I wake up I can just stumble over and get some lovely ready coffee.
It’s not entirely simple like that… because we do have the auto coffee maker and when I’ve used it in the past I have deeply, deeply loved it. But we don’t make coffee every day because back in the days when we made a full pot every morning, either I’d be in the jitters all day or half of it would be poured down the drain. So it’s only made on an as-needed basis, and need is evaluated in medias res.
But you’re right, the making of the coffee does, in fact, help to wake me up.