Coffees
This was a light week for coffee because I was working pretty hard at home and mostly brewed Chemex.
- Sweet Bloom Coffee - Arvada, CO - Despite their reluctance to produce more natural coffees, this place is just awesome. I was able to get a 1:1 with the Gesha from weeks past at the Arvada location, even though it’s no longer available on the website.
- Olympia Coffee Roasters - Doing their Little Buddy as a Chemex. I’ve found that I use a 1:16 ratio for hot coffee and a 1:10 ratio when pouring it over ice. This remains my most consistent coffee over the past two years.
- Coffee Ride - Pouring over some of their coffees. I finished the Nicaragua La Bastilla Natural, and as I got to the end of the bag, it really began to grow on me. I have a little bit left of Colombia Finca Villa Betulia Honey Caturron, which still isn’t my favorite. It is a little too funky, even for me.
- Blue Sparrow - RiNo - I love this place because they do a bunch of different cold brews, including a Japanese-style flash brew, which is really nice. Got a cortado that was okay. It was with their house. Am I the only one who wishes more shops would always have a backup espresso for trying?
Life Updates
- Finally got my Subaru back with the replacement charge port cover. Now I can do that again. I’m excited to save a little more on gas.
- Got to do brunch with my good friend Tim, who was in the area skiing on vacation. Tim and I have a very antagonistic relationship, which I thoroughly appreciate, and he hasn’t gotten rid of me yet. It’s good to have friends that you can joke around with.
- Finally did some sewing with the Sailrite on this trip. I made a grocery bag with my friends, but it was too big, so I had to make a smaller one. I learned a bit about sewing binding with the needle position on the LSZ Sailrite.
- Made 3 dinners last week; one was California burritos, but the challenge is not overfilling them. I failed at that. Another note, chicken thighs marinated in Bachans overnight are really great with rice and broccoli.
Tech Updates
- Continue working on the laser cutting program. There will be some pretty cool updates to that soon. Working with Qt and Python is a challenge, but we are pushing through.
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- Side note: I hate that Python doesn’t support true visibility and protects private variables and methods until I start writing tests, and then I like that I can take shortcuts to manipulate objects quickly to test exactly the part I want.
- Sacred Space is starting to fill out as a site with some real events. Last week was a little blower in use because of Envision, a major festival at which we are most prevalent.
- I’m playing around with Plausible.io instead of Google Analytics, and loving it. It shows me traffic across all my websites on a single page, with a better dashboard.
- Continued work on Authentic Auctions has resulted in the listing and selling of several cars in the past couple of weeks. I’ve also been working on a new format for van information as we move further into that market.
- Continued working on my research around the CNContact from Apple and running into some interesting notes. I will be posting more notes on it here over the next couple of weeks as I investigate doing something significant here.
- Incredibly custom web project coming online soon.
Moments
Brunch at Blackbird in Evergreen with Tim:
Sewn bag for Evan, its too big:
Sweet Bloom Cortado:
Blue Sparrow Cortado:
