u/cruzorlose

I am pregnant and have become obsessed with cold brew. I’ve been buying from the store to know the caffeine content but would love to save some money and likely get a better brew making it at home. Obviously, I am very limited in caffeine content (max 200mg per day) but would still like to have a small amount of caffeine (maybe 120-150mg per 16oz serving if that’s even possible) bc I’m exhausted enough without forcing myself to only have decaf coffee. I have a 40oz cold brew making container, food scale, and happy to buy my own bean grinder or source from my local health food store that allows you to grind beans in the store to buy.

Any advice for ratios, steeping times, and what types of coffee beans to get?

I have a VA appeal that was open for evidence submission until June 9th following my hearing. I mailed in my evidence a month ago and it shows as delivered but I’ve called the main VA number twice in the past week and both times they told me that they do not see my evidence. I verified the address and verified it was delivered to the correct location with my tracking number on May 11th.

Both times I called the VA, they’ve told me two completely different things. The first time, they told me to call back to check again next week (this week) and that if it was still not received that they could assist me with requesting an extension to allow time to mail it again. Made it sound like it wasn’t a huge deal, easy for them to help, and I just needed to follow up with them. They also told me I could upload evidence to quick submit and it would “probably” be routed correctly. The second time, they acted like I was stupid, told me they didn’t see anything and they couldn’t help me at all, then told me to email the appeals board customer service email bc “that’s how you’re supposed to send evidence for your appeal” (news to me) and I’d have to wait for them to respond to tell me what to do.

I am absolutely freaking out and trying not to have a mental breakdown over this because it’s a HUGE deal and I sent my evidence as soon as I possibly could given that it wasn’t all available until a couple days before I mailed it out. I thought I was playing it fairly safe by mailing over a month in advance of my evidence due date but I guess not. Has anyone ever dealt with this and knows if they’ll still accept evidence that was mailed and post marked prior to the evidence submission window closing or if it needs to be received and uploaded before the due date?? Or will they work with me to figure out a way to send this electronically? I can try to fax it but I have no idea how to do so and if it would be uploaded within a couple of days from being faxed. I’m at the point of getting ready to try to send this through mail, fax, quick submit, and emailing the customer service but I’m so worried that no matter what, I’m too late at this point because there’s no electronic option.

Any insight is greatly appreciated!