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as this is my first real post (after matt tagged me), i thought i’d do a very quick post on something completely unrelated to RSS. so, here it is…my first experience with coffee roasting…

about a year ago I commuted with someone at Yahoo! who roasted his own coffee beans. while i’m an addict, i thought this guy was crazy. but then one day, he brought over a little baggie filled with some beans from costa rica…they were amazing. of course, i still thought he was a bit nuts…

fast forward 12 months and I discovered that some close friends in Berkeley had started to roast their own beans as well. After two or three lbs of “pushed” beans i was hooked. so, for my 3?th birthday last week, i got a coffee roaster - the iRoast2.

while, the iRoast2 doesn’t handle enough beans (4-5 oz at a time), it’s pretty amazing. the coffee is far superior to peets, sbux, whatever. the flavors are subtle / nuanced. it’s become my version of wine collecting / tasting.

for more information about roasting, machines, beans, etc go to Sweet Maria’s

Matt M tagged me on thursday -> goading me into writing my first post…so, here goes nothing:

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. Tennis instructor (at the age of 16)
2. House painter
3. Valet parker (not for country clubs, but on the streets of san francisco - “flying dutchman”)
4. Health care policy analyst (covering a diverse set of issues/topics: tribal self-determination, migrant workers, home health care fraud and abuse, etc.)

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Godfather (I and II - of course)
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Airplane
4. Young Frankenstein

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Frontline
2. Survivor
3. Bachelor
4. Elimidate (Matt, since you admitted it, i will too - but, to be honest, it’s been a while)

Four places I’ve been on vacation:
1. Turkey
2. Aruba
3. Ireland
4. Alaska

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Potstickers or anything from Great China
2. Pizza from Cheeseboard
3. Nearly any burrito
4. Silver dollar pancakes from Jimmy Beans

Four websites I visit daily:
1. My Yahoo
2. Paidcontent
3. Searchblog
4. del.icio.us

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Monterey/Carmel
2. Tahoe
3. Arizona
4. Hawaii

Four bloggers I am tagging (as in “you’re it”…?):
1. Scott Gatz
2. Russell Beattie
3. Steve Olechowski
4. Shanan Delp

so, i’m just testing my blog to see how it looks…of course, to take up space, let me say a few words about the Cal vs. Stanford game - no wait, i don’t want to talk about that. ben, thanks for the invite, but i’m GLAD i didn’t go :)

hmmm…this seems like a long enough post to get the hang of it…

stay tuned - i’m almost done formatting my blog…then, i’ll actually start writing something of interest!