Flour Bloom is a super hip, quite roomy, and very busy coffee shop right at the intersection of MLK and Burnside. Pretty decent coffee and good baked goods make this a pleasant stop. It’s not an area I often frequent, but it’s definitely one of the best in its locality. Checkout that interior!

Opening night. Love my Blazers but it’s going to be a loooong season.

I often wonder why everyone seems to be ok with the fact that Coca Cola from Mexico is better/has-less-chemicals than Coca Cola from the States. Why is this ok? Restaurants are even up charging for Mexican Coke.

I believe that I am not cool enough for Bastion Coffee. Located in the trendy Mississippi neighborhood, the store was absolutely packed with people. The interior is very small but the coffee is good. I’m not sure how easy it would be to get any work done here, though.

It’s far past time for the WNBA finals to be a 7 game series. Far far far past time.

Finished reading: Micro by Michael Crichton 📚

One of the worst books I’ve read in a long time. Nothing good to say.

Do you still have the Jeremy Renner app installed on your device?

TBT: the time I learned how to play Cricket in India. I had a ton of fun, but boy was I terrible at it!

Portland’s Literary Arts is one of the jewels of the city. Tonight: the amazing Amy Tan!

I trudged out to the St John’s neighborhood to try Affogato coffee. First, I will say that they make really good coffee, using beans from Broken Robot. However as a potential workspace, not only is it quite a ways out, their interior is quite small. In short, good coffee, not great shop.

Kalsea Coffee is an adorable little coffee shop tucked into a corner in the Gotham Building in NE Portland. It has limited seating but is super cozy with a nice jazzy vibe that made it easy to work. The coffee is decently good, and I really enjoyed my visit. Definitely would recommend.

We visited Ole Bolle Troll today. He’s pretty impressive!

On a walk in my neighborhood. Interestingly, very few duplicates.

I won’t be too harsh, but I really didn’t enjoy the coffee or the ambiance of Cafe Eleven. And I’ll just leave it at that.

Here are some pictures though!

Harder Day Coffee sits in a converted gas station on Sandy. It’s been remodeled well, and if you don’t mind the blaring, slightly too loud punk (I don’t mind) then you might enjoy it here. The coffee is mediocre but there’s plenty of space to spread out and work if you need to.

It’s time to make WNBA playoff series 5 games instead of 3.