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I started playing with coffee roasting in Aug. '04. In a very short while, people wanted some and offered to pay for it. As a recently divorced and laid-off person (read poor), it seemed like a good idea to print up some business cards and build a small clientele. In Jan. '05, I started an associate degree in culinary arts (the Feds paid for the schooling and added 18 months of unemployment benefits, which, along w/ not wanting to go back to work, motivated me to pursue a degree in something.)

In the third semester, I had a class called Field Experience, where, instead of going to campus, I went to help in the kitchen at Mt. Mary, a women-only college about a mile away from home. One day, during a break, I was exploring the old building I was in, and came across a fella about my age, hanging around w/ a travel mug in his hand. I baited him with, "Hey buddy, what's in that mug?" and "Do you enjoy a great cup of coffee?" He answered yes, and more importantly, answered my next question correctly, "Do you own a grinder?". (If they don't own a grinder, I assume they're lying about their answer to question no. 2) So I left a business card with Larry, thinking I'll never hear from him again.

A few weeks later, I got a call from Larry, and he became what is now my longest-term customer and a very good friend. (We're going for a bite to eat, and then to a Leo Kottke concert Sunday night). Larry's wife was a high school teacher who told her principal about my coffee, and John then became a customer too - that was maybe 15 years ago. John's a few years older than me, and his wife, Lynn, is asking him to clean out their unnecessary stuff. Lynn has stage 4 cancer, and that might have something to do with wanting to clean house.

So today, when John stopped in for his usual 3lbs, he brought a stack of albums with him. He said they'd actually get some use if they were mine. 40 records, almost all are classical, and they're great recordings, all like new.

Ya just never know what a day will hold!

Damn, it even made the bottle drunk

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
Had this at a retirement party Saturday evening. Ultra smooth and caramelly for tequila.

That bottle looks the way my stomach feels after drinking tequila