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!