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Today I did my first 250g peaberry roast.  Working in a new bowl, with a lot larger volume, and a bean that I am unfamiliar with.  I’ll taste it in the morning, curious of the results.  I was probably 80-90% even in roast. It just had it’s first crack at a very slow pace which […]

I’ve been absent, lost in New York. No not really, it was Robin’s 27th birthday and we were there for her grandmothers 85th. This was our best trip to New York yet. While we hammed it up on Long Island (Hicksville) with the family half the time, the other half was spent travelling for good […]

  This weekend Robin and I traveled to Chapel Hill for the finals in the South Eastern Barista Competition. We arrived about 11:30a, enough time to say hello to friends and colleagues before the two hour competitive marathon. Peter, Daryn, Tim, Cindy, and many more faces from [CCC](http://www.counterculturecoffee.com “Counter Culture Coffee”) working hard to pull […]

The kitchen job went bust.. long story short the people who we paid to insure proper measurements measured wrong. This caused a 6” gap in the counter which basically shut down forward progress on installing a kitchen. Of course the old counter had been removed prior to learning this therefore finagling was involved. In the […]

Oye Vey.. Thats a rather approximate summation of the events of late. Not quite good at penning short hand so this long ranting will have to do. In the housing market you deal with subjectivity. Subjectivity which can work for or against you. Subjectivity built upon human rational crossed with math of the moment. To […]