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They have Laura hooked up to a machine that monitors the heartbeat so I recorded some audio.
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In helping promote Blog Action Day The Haraldson’s blog will be covering a topic as lackluster as the paint on a ‘36 Ford. Lackluster it may be but practical and effective as a ‘07 Accord. Your interest now being piqued I hope it’s not too much a let down that today I’ll be presenting a solution to a small part of the world’s litter problem by suggesting that people stop using throw-away coffee cups. I work in an office in which I seen dozens of people walk in and out of everyday, many off to the local coffee shops for a morning cup. Everyday single day some of these same people come back with a brand new, un-tattered, shiny paper coffee cup that they drink from and then without a second glance throw into the waste basket.
I am of the opinion that disposable coffee cups are quite uncomfortable to drink from as the little plastic caps are sharp and the hole so small the coffee never has a chance to cool off properly. The come with those silly cardboard sleeves that never actually keep your hand from getting too hot as you grip it. And shape and size of the mugs are almost always prone to spilling or being tipped over onto your precious keyboard, drawing, paper or whatever other precious items you may have on your desk.
Granted there is a certain convenience in just being able to drive to a coffee place and grab a cup because you didn’t have time to make any before work or you keep forgetting to bring a mug from home and that excuse is acceptable about one percent of the time. If you use that excuse any more than that then you are ignorant. There, I said it, I called you ignorant. If you throw a paper coffee cup into your waste basket everyday then why don’t you just go straight to the source and throw it right into a lake, river or ocean because that’s where it’s going to end up ultimately anyway.
Make it your goal over the next days, weeks and months to have a couple re-useable coffee mugs located in all the places you like to drink coffee. Keep one at the office, one in your car, a few at home. And even better, have a few available for other around you who may not be as enlightened as you are.
- Sam Haraldson
It’s back for its second year with a slight name change! 50 lucky cyclists will take to the skyways of Saint Paul to race against the clock in a one of a kind race.
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Having gotten into brewing my own beer in the past year I’d grown quite sick of having to bottle it all because of the time it requires to do it. Hanging out in the Northern Brewer forums I was amazed at some of the cool kegerators that the forum members had built themselves. The best thing about having your own kegerators is that instead of two hours of bottling it only takes about ten minutes to get your beer into a keg and then instead of waiting 3 week for it to naturally carbonate itself you can force carbonate your beer with co2 and have it ready to go in about five days or even less if you want.
The majority of kegerators that I had seen pictures of online were bare bones kegerators built for the sole purpose of dispensing beer. I had grander ideas. When Laura, who was my girlfriend at the time, purchased her house she had always said she’d like to have a bar for entertaining in the basement. I figured this was the perfect reason to combine our two wishes together. A bar for entertaining, with a kegerators built in for dispensing beer.
After a little research online I decided on a design in my head (drawings? plans? Hah!) and headed to Home Depot to purchase the base for what would someday become the Haraldson Family Brewpub
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