I drink less and wish I could drink more.

My body can't handle more than one double a day.

Once or twice a week I can have an extra double without regrets - maybe

When I get too edgy and don't sleep well, I have to lay off for a day or two.

It makes it a little hard experimenting and learning - hard to remember from day to day.

More. I didn't really ever drink coffee or espresso before. I still don't like most brewed coffee. I used to carpool with a guy who would make us stop at SB for a quad espresso every morning. It was 5:30 in the morning so I started to drink these too just to help wake up. I'd add a few packs of brown sugar to make it drinkable, (this was before the superautos at least). Later I was working with a studio that had a 3rd wave roaster across the street so a few of us would make daily trips there for espresso. This is where I caught the bug and decided I should be making this at home. Now I even find that particular 3rd wave place to be 2.5wave at best

I can handle 2 doubles in the morning and then one in the afternoon.

Besides being the occasional guest coffee drinker at some one's house (always drip), to a restaurant coffee drinker with dinner, and finally occasional coffee house customer, I decided to brew at home. I began with a 8 Tasse French press and would brew a full beaker twice a day. So, starting off I drank much more coffee. But after getting into espresso I now only have two to three doubles a day with the occasional fourth.