Entries from November 2007

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Coffee Fest Seattle

Guess who scored a free pass to Coffee Fest this weekend? Of course it was me. I’ve only been in a town a few months and I had more than few people offer me a pass to this weekend’s big event.

I sat in on the Basic Barista Techniques class. There I learned an additional [...]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Sluggish in Seattle

A little over a month ago I decided to leave the glitter gym and work out from home. On paper it seemed like a brilliant idea. My weights are in my office. I work from home. Why I could knock out reps all day long!
My plan failed.
I lifted weights a couple of times each week [...]

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Insane Amount of Coffee Sunday in Seattle

Woke up Sunday at 5:50 AM. Forgetting it was really 4:50 AM due to the end of Daylight Savings, I proceeded directly to my espresso machine. Last week I started a 3 week coffee cupping program at Victrola that takes place Sunday mornings. Since I had an extra hour to kill, I had my [...]

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

The Most Dangerous Places in the World

Over a month ago I stumbled upon the most interesting travel book I’ve ever seen. This book isn’t about places to snorkel in Hawaii or New England bed and breakfast locations. This was a book on traveling to the most dangerous locations in the world.

Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition was [...]

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

High School Reunion Update

Turns out the planners of my high school reunion came to the same conclusion I did in my High School Reunion Dilemma post. In that post I stated:
My 20 year high school reunion is scheduled on the same day as the Ohio State - Michigan game. You could not have a picked a worse [...]