Nate RFB posted:

I wish there was a local roaster, I'd love to dabble in more serious takes on coffee, like chemex, but it feels rather pointless to try that without stuff that has actually been roasted fresh. As it is I usually settle for just grinding whole beans from Trader Joes.

I could not live without coffee in the morning, skipping it for any appreciable amount of time is a bad scene. Even bad tasting coffee (of which I have certainly inoculated myself upon over the years) is preferred over nothing.