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| - You know how it is...you have been working all morning...on the phone...on the web...answering emails, IM's...on Skype with the euro's...you really need to get out of the office and clear your head, no matter how gilded, plush and well appointed that particular cage is!
You need to get out in the real world..."rub shoulders" with the masses...you know..."press the flesh" with the hoi polloi:)
BTW, those are both euphemisms, as I have discovered through trial and error (not to mention lengthy lectures about "boundaries" and "personal space" from various law enforcement officials and other members of the legal profession:)
So I filled my backpack with my notebook and its power source, my aircard (wifi is great, but a little unreliable at times), my notepad (the paper one...no power cord needed), the folio that my notepad lives in, various pens and pencils (including my beautiful blue Parker fountain pen), post-its, my bluetooth earpiece for my phone, my phone, my newspaper, my current book and my reading glasses.
Whew!...That backpack was full as a tick and ready to pop...you know, it's always the same problem...you finally get your sh*t together...then you discover that it's too heavy to lift:)
Anyway, off I went to Sola for a little slice of humanity and a couple of cups of extraordinary coffee!
Sola is a lovely little spot to spend an hour or two, sitting at one of the big tables, enjoying the conversations around you, the soft music playing, the hissing of the espresso machine as the delightful owners make the various coffee and tea concoctions...and a really extraordinary cup of coffee!
At Sola, they always grind the beans fresh when I ask for a cup...then they put a single cup filter (with the perfect amount of fresh ground beans) on top of the cup...then they pour perfectly heated water into the single cup filter and let it percolate into the cup for a perfect cup of coffee...that's right...I said "perfect"!
I know, there are cappuccino and espresso and latte enthusiasts out there saying "Donald, you just described a mere cup of coffee...it's not the caramel macchiato with whipped cream ambrosia that I usually drink!"
Well, I hear you...and I would be willing to bet that those kinds of coffee drinks are also excellent at Sola...but...I like my regular cup of coffee and I enjoy my cup of coffee at Sola more than any other single cup of coffee that I can recall...esp. given that I pay Sola about what I would pay for a large cup of crappy coffee from Charbucks:)
The coffee at Sola is never sitting in an urn...never on the heat...never not perfectly fresh and well made (I know...double negative...but artistic license wins out over correct grammar:)
Add in the fact that the people working at Sola are so nice, pay so much attention to detail in making my coffee and that they have created such a nice spot to relax, work and enjoy my coffee...well, I will submit that it is worth your time to swing through Old Town and discover Sola:)
If you see me at Sola, you are welcome to "rub shoulders" with me but please don't "press my flesh"...I bruise easily these days:)
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