I must have won a contest….
Things like this don’t normally happen to me. Yesterday all of my dominoes were lined up. It was beautiful.
First off, I had the rare pleasure of reading the paper this morning and there was a recommendation in the Pioneer Press for a coffee shop that I had never heard of, so I went there. It’s called Kopplin’s Coffee and it’s on the corner of Hamline and Randolph. I watched them make the coffee and noticed that the coffee machine was uber but I didn’t get a chance to figure out exactly what it was doing, their website says it’s a Clover 1s and it’s the only one in Minnesota. The Clover 1s apparently IS uber and utilizes techniques from both Vac Pots and Press Pots. It’s the best cup of coffee that I have ever had. And the owner Andrew Kopplin is an avid blogger. Yippy!
What’s next? Oh yeah, the article about me :) This is one of the better articles about yo-yoing that I have seen. The writer, Mike Morgan, really captured the sport in the article and he really got what I was saying. And the photographer, Paul Dols, was fantastic. He really took the time to get great looking shots that make me look awesome. I’m pretty sure the main picture is manipulated though, what do you think?
And we got a house. What’s that you say? A house? That’s right. On Tuesday night we looked at a house in North Saint Paul, we liked it so we put in an offer. Then yesterday (Wednesday), we got a counteroffer from them, and we gave them a counteroffer and it went on like that for most of the day until we arrived at terms that we both could agree with. It was simply amazing. After our last offer, which took two weeks to hear anything, it was really invigorating to have things go so quickly. We have an inspection tomorrow morning from 9am until 12. I’m feeling anxious, but it’s a good kind of anxious, not the type that makes me throw up and stuff.
-Josh
Posted on March 29th, 2007 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants
Congrats man!
About the Clover, those are really freakin’ good, but Ritual (my fave local shop) sells some of their Clover coffee for $6. That’s cool and all, but it was a bit of a shock. Most of the other clover cofees are only $3 though.
Here’s what I think: You should probably throw up a little bit, just to be sure.
Firstly: I saw the house. Josh invited me out to see it today while the inspector was there for a couple hours. It’s amazing. I’m no house inspector, but for what it may be worth: I really liked the old place. Front porch, back porch, real nice back yard with a brick patio, beautiful master bedroom, and a workshop in the basement to boot.
Following that: Josh directed me over to that Coffee house, Kopplin’s Coffee. Holy cow is that place neat. I think the most eye catching thing about it is the attention to detail in the decorating inside. It’s a small shop on what seems like a busy corner for that neighborhood (not far from the Grand/Selby areas). It was 12:30pm Friday afternoon when we showed up. Not terribly busy inside, but for the time of day I guess I wasn’t surprised. Josh got some coffee from the neat and expensive looking machine he mentioned, and I got a cup of some organic tea that I assumed would not be very caffeinated, if at all.
Boy was I wrong. I have not had any caffeine for well over a month, as well as several other changes in my diet to clean myself out, and as I sat here typing this reply, my hands shook, my heart pounded in my chest, and a severe case of ADHD went into overdrive. It couldn’t have been more than 8 to 10 ounces I had, and on the way home it kicked in and my body redlined.
Wow.
Thanks for the great morning Josh, have a nice impromptu day at work.
-Joe