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Jan 18th
Coffee is only one of my interests – I’m also an avid fly fisherman and fly tyer, and since getting a new Jeep last year, I’m getting hooked on off-roading! I have a couple web sites dedicated to these interests: Fly fishing and fly tying at www.broken-fish.net, and www.ality.org for Jeeping things! Enjoy!
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Caffè Artigiano
Dec 6th
Spent the past week in Calgary on a training course – and while I didn’t spend much time outside of the classroom or my hotel suite, I did find the Caffè Artigiano. A forum member suggested this cafe as it was close by the hotel I was staying at, and I was further motivated as this cafe serves up 49th Parallel coffee that I have been wanting to try for a while.
I found the place during a 1 hour lunch break, and had large Americano with an extra shot, along with a bowl of very tasty Chicken Curry soup. I also order a half pound of their “Private Reserve” espresso, and had them grind it up for a press (I brought my Aeropress with me, along with some Ethiopian Harrar from Transcend). Very nice place inside – although I didn’t have my soup and coffee there – had to hurry back to class.
The Americano was fabulous – had been 2 days since I last had one. And that evening, I made up a mug of coffee with the Aeropress, and I was very pleased! From the coffee perspective, the Aeropress and the Caffè Artigiano made my trip – the class had coffee provided, but it was lukewarm at best, refilled my mug with it on Monday, and didn’t touch it for the rest of the week. I actually walked back to the hotel during lunch on a couple occassions, and made up a fresh mug in my suite!
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BlueHost.com
Jul 28th
BlueHost is a top rated web host – and for good reason. A comprehensive hosting package provides their customers with a huge amount of space to store files. The control panel simplifies management of domains, databases, and also include tools to perform single click installations of popular blog applications such as WordPress. I’ve used other providers, and even managed hosting myself – and highly recommend BlueHost.com
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Planetary Design
Jan 4th
I’ve had a Big Sky Bistro coffee mug for years – use it for camping. Last year I got a new mug from MEC, a 20oz. thermal stainless steel desk press mug, and I use it daily. Both mugs are from Planetary Design. I didn’t buy them because of that – but after this experience, I’ll definitely make sure that any travel mugs I consider purchasing in future are from these folks!
A couple weeks back one of the small tabs got broken off the lid slider from the mug I bought last year, causing it to fall out all the time.
Over the holiday season, I bought a new mug to replace the old one (same mug, different color), but figured that it would be quite a waste to just get rid of the old mug. I visited the Planetary Design web site to see if parts could be ordered. There was nothing in the way of mug parts, so I used their contact form to see if it was possible to buy replacement parts for their mugs. This was just last week, and I haven’t received an email reply – however, to my surprise, a package arrived from UPS today, containing a couple replacement lids! Now that’s customer service!
I purchased my mugs (the Big Sky Bistro and 20oz. Desk Press) from the Mountain Equipment Co-op here in Edmonton. I’ve also seen the ‘Double-Shot’ mugs at Transcend.
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Navan Latte
Dec 23rd
Here’s something that I tried last night while making some coffee drinks for some friends and family.
- Heat up latte cup with hot water, dry, and then pour 1oz. of Navan into it
- add a double shot of espresso – I used Transcend’s Organic Espresso.
- top off latte cup with steamed milk and serve.
I suspect that the espresso blend definitely played a role in the resulting drink. It was a pleasant surprise… it was like a fine European dark chocolate.
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