Thursday, December 21, 2006

Seven Coffee Roasters

Cogratulations to my good friend Sean Lee on opening his new coffee house and soon to be roasting company. Today was his first full day of business. He has a awesome looking new coffee house that I think will be very successfull.
I first met Sean when he bought a coffee stand that was owned by a Zoka wholesale customer. I gave him is initial training. He actually became a great barista in spite of that. He sold his coffee stand and worked with me at Hotwire for awhile. He also competed in a NW reginal competition and maybe the US in Seattle.
The name of his coffee house is Seven Coffee Roasters and it is in the greenwood neiborhood in Seattle 153 N. 78th St. Good luck and may your espresso run thick.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

This Crazy Life

Well I don't know about you but, life has been crazy for me. My camera was stolen from my car right before Thanksgiving. I'm still upset about that. I'm not sure when I will get a new one and when I do it will be a lesser camera. The weather here in the Seattle area has been crazy. November was a record breaking month of rain. Mt. Baker which holds the world record for snow fall expects to break that record again this year. Then we had a abnormal amount of snow and cold weather for this area. Then last week we had a huge wind storm that blew roofs of knocked down tree's and power lines. Some people will have been without power for over a week by the time they get power back. Both of our Hotwire coffee houses are busier then ever.

We are still trying to get Borogove Coffee of the ground. Borgove is our roasting company. Hopefully our web site will be up and running soon. As soon as the coffees are available Borogove will have some of the Brazil coffees that I went down to Brazil to judge. I found the web site of Christian Wolthers who was with us in Brazil. http://www.blaserwolthers.com/news01.htm He does a great job describing what we did in Brazil.

I have been thinking about my crazy life lately and at times have gotten alittle down but, I remind myself how good I have it. I have great family, a nice house, food to eat and much more. I have the potential to do even much better then my dad ever did. Growing up we were poor by American standards. So, I have allot to be Thankfull for. I really can't complain but, I do. It gives me something to talk about.

On a funny side note I found myself on Utube. Mark Prince put some footage he had of me from the USBC competition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eta7CvtsqhM

Happy Holidays and I hope to see you all in the new year.