We Sold Our Espresso Machine!

Yes, with a heavy heart, I posted our beautiful Rio Vania commercial 2-group espresso machine on Craigslist last week. Since we changed our hours (we used to be open at 11:00 am every day), we just don't really use it too much and it is a sadly underused expensive paperweight at this point. So we are asking $3500 for the machine, including the grinder and all the accompanying stuff that one would require. Stumptown installed it for us in August 2005, and it just has not seen much use, so it's in nearly mint condition.

The Bitch is Back!

Phone Photo of Stephen and Mike at Plush in Tuscon, Arizona.

Last week I flew to Tucscon to join the Jicks for a few shows of their tour. Never been to Tucson, it is a sweet little hippie paradise, but on the toasty side for pasty northwesterners like me. I had a giant sun-hat though, so I was stoked (and totally in disguise!).

The shows were great and kept my mind off the weird cluster of equipment failures we've had recently at Sagittarius, the latest of which was an $800 freezer fix the day before I left (ouch!). I wish someone would tell me the secret to good equipment mojo...we try to keep the machines nice and happy, but sometimes they are overloaded with too many tater tots to chill, I guess.

Tomorrow I'm going to figure out how to post an employee roster. Our employees are so rad, they are all full of bands and art and school and math and a little bit of drama; a sit-com in the making.

And I will figure out how to post our menu. That is the point, no? Live to eat!

Mondays= Happy Hour all night at Sagittarius!

I made this new ad today. I make all the Sagittarius ads because I think it's fun and I like to change them often, and I don't have to pay someone else. Mostly, I try to include all our employees in the ads as soon as I can convince them how bitchen it is. Some of our employees are Leos, so they love it....but some are like, Cancers, the more modest types, and they are harder to capture. I always just use my camera phone, (I am prone to losing or sitting on nice cameras). But this photo of Mike, I don't know who took it, someone posted it on Flickr.com. It's like I'm there at the show! I can almost see the pick in his mouth which is where he puts it when he has a keyboard passage to do (technical term: pick-in-mouth). Anyhow, we are all hella proud of Mike and the Jicks.

But while I am here running the bar by myself, things seem to want to break all the time and I am beginning to take it personally. I will be calling the freezer repair place tomorrow as soon as I can lift my head. Typical.

Sagittarius enters the 21st century

Hello Universe!

Yes, I made Baby Cakes today, so we are no longer out of those little cuties. They are a time-consuming endeavor, but so attractive and delicious that I don't mind spending the time to fulfill your whiskey/chocolate needs.

I also baked some peanut butter and oatmeal-raisin cookies, so save some room.