Here's how it works in the mornings here:

I get up at least  ninety minutes before my aunts. In that ninety minutes, I typically have 2 mugs of coffee. I have one more as I converse with them while they ready for their day. Then, I stop drinking coffee. This week, my aunts are on vacation. It's hell.

I still get up at four. I drink through my first pot by 5:45 and brew the next. There have been a few days this week wherein I've found need to brew a third so that my aunts might have coffee for whenever it is that they  wake up for the day. I have no stop point. Coffee consumption has been way out of control. I think the whites of my eyes are coffee-stained. I can't wait until vacation is over.