What a day!

What a day! was Originally Posted on July 10, 2005 by lavarock

Saturday I got up early and finished getting my 2 ounce coffee bags ready to fill. I had helped my neighbor get her website and shopping cart ready and she agreed to help me fill 250 bags. The labels were made, sprayed and dried so the ink would not run if they got wet. I packed the car and headed north about 8:45am.

The trip to her farm is about 10 miles and I decided to stop at McDonalds in Kealakekua (about 1/2 way there) to grab breakfast. As I entered I thought about what kind of drink I wanted. I saw the pot of coffee on the burner and thought”coffee, coffee.. naw, I have 60 pounds of ground coffee right outside in my car… wait, I don’t remember putting the burlap bag of coffee in the car… OH NO!”

I had travled halfway to my destination yet forgotten the most important part of the trip, the coffee. I grabbed an Egg McMuffin and headed back to the house to get the coffee.

Filling the bags took about 3 hours and I finished about 1:30pm. Soon thereafter I headed into Kailua-Kona and waited for another neighbor who wanted to look at some store fronts. We hiked through town for hours and we exchanged thoughts about foot traffic and so on.

Then is was on to help a friend get his computer working. It developed an intermittent shutdown problem, which I diagnosed as a sticking fan in the power supply. I cleaned it some and got the computer running again. I graciously accepted the offer of dinner and soon thereafter headed home to work on some projects.

I went to bed early and then got up early Sunday morning. I chatted with a couple people from Atlanta and Washington DC and worked on my friends webpage again. She is now officially ON THE AIR and ready to accept orders. We may have to fine tune the site, but I think it will work out well for her.

Then I hauled out some of the 250 bags of coffee and took some photos of them. I would have liked having a pile of 250 of them on one table, but I stopped short of that when I realized I’d have to carefully repack them again.

Tomorrow I’ll take the bags of coffee over and see how we will pack them for shipment to the convention on Oahu.