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First roast

After making a coffee roaster this weekend, I just roasted my first batch of coffee beans. Jules found some green coffee beans at the Ypsi Food Co-op for only $5 a pound unlike the $9 for 10oz at whole foods. As soon as the roasted beans cooled down I brewed a pot of coffee and [...]

Corner Brewery

If you’re in the Ypsilanti area, don’t forget that the Corner Brewery is opening up on Thursday. It’s a new micro-brewery pub located in the old Motor Wheel plant just north of Depot Town. It’s owned and operated by the owners of the Arbor Brewing in Ann Arbor. Support your locally owned businesses. We need [...]

Mexican food in Ypsi

Ypsilanti, has a real plethora of great Mexican food, and none of it comes from a chain or franchise restaurant. The old stalwart is of course La Fiesta Mexicana on W. Cross St. Michelle Roman and Guillermo Aleman (Memo) have been running their little establishment across from the EMU campus since 1990. On most evenings [...]

A great fall day

Today was a gorgeous fall day, the sun was shining and the temperature was about 70. Max had a football game this morning. During the warmup the guys did great, they were catching everything. Once the game started they ran their patterns, and they got open. The defense reacted to the changing formations on the [...]

PETA is ridiculous

Mark Maynard has a good post this morning that is mostly about vandalizing SUV’s. For years I have fought back the urge to deface all those pristine Explorers, Hummers and especially Cayannes (Ferdinand Porsche must be rolling over in his grave ever since this one came to be. Porsche management should be ashamed of themselves). [...]

Depot Town

Thursday night my friend Mark and I went down to Depot Town in Ypsilanti to grab some dinner and catch up. I haven’t seen Mark since he quit working where I do in February. Thins are still in flux for Mark but he just got back from his annual family vacation in France. His wife [...]