Are you a Peetnik?

[jobob]

speaking of bad habits to pick up

Been to McMenamin's Grand Lodge yet, GLC?

[GLC1968]

speaking of bad habits to pick up

Been to McMenamin's Grand Lodge yet, GLC?

We were planning on this weekend, but I'm making the trip to Seattle for the Knot/Wahine bike fitting party instead. Maybe next weekend? I'll have to write it in PEN. I've been dying to go since you all first told me about it in December!!

[boy in a kilt]

speaking of bad habits to pick up

Been to McMenamin's Grand Lodge yet, GLC?

I used to drill with a Guard unit in Forest Grove. When the option presented itself, I used to head over to the Grand Lodge for beer and dinner. As far as that goes, it's pretty standard McMenamin's fare. Good food, good beer.

One of the coolest things is sitting outside in the summer sipping beer and watching people play frisbee. Or just sitting outside sipping beer.

One of these days, I hope to we can get a chance to stay the night there, get the full Spa treatment, etc.

[jobob]

OK, that was kind of rude of me to cause the thread to drift to another one of my favorite things beer.

So, back to Peet's:

Peet's changed my life. Seriously.

When I was finishing grad school, I got accepted into 3 different labs for a postdoc. One was in College Park MD, one was in Ann Arbor MI, and the third was in Berkeley CA.

Since I was attending the Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco around that time, a friend & I went over to Berkeley to stay a couple of days with a friend of hers. I went to visit the lab, meet the people, did a little sightseeing.

The following morning, friend's friend told us, "I have to take you to this coffee shop before you leave."

So we trooped over to this little coffee shop called Peet's in Walnut Square*, just before it opened. There were a bunch of people milling about holding empty coffee mugs, discussing Berkeley politics and such, and then the doors opened and the people formed a nice orderly line to get their morning brew.

(*That was, of course, the original Peet's- this was back in the mid 80's)

We joined the line and soon I had the best cup of coffee ever.

Well, I'd been leaning heavily towards Berkeley anyhow, but when I sipped that coffee, it was a done deal. "I gotta come here!".

So a decision that determined the course of the rest of my life was powered by Peet's.

[Pax]

Jobob - I LOVE that story!

[sundial]

So a decision that determined the course of the rest of my life was powered by Peet's.

That is a neat story, Jobob. Isn't it funny how we choose to let trivial things determine our decisions? Not that Peet's, is, uh, trivial.

[jobob]

Well, I was coming from the Boston area, so the lack of winter didn't hurt either.

[sundial]

Oh, well, you must feel like you're in the Bahamas.

[Chile Pepper]

I was always partial to New Guinea until I got my espresso machine several years ago. The espresso forte definitely makes the best cup of espresso. It gets a little complicated keeping my Chilean cupboard stocked with the stuff, but I'm a much better person for it. Just ask my family.