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lacoffee.com Our entire operation runs on Groundwork Coffee's Black Gold. They're an organic coffee roaster here in Los Angeles and we love their coffee. You can order their products online. See the box on the right for our recipe for perfect coffee.

We Use Basecamp

There's no better collaboration and project management tool.

We manage and share all our projects on Basecamp.com
We love it. Here's why:

No software to download. It's web based. Access it from any computer with an internet connection.
Never wonder what we're up to. We time track all of our work with Basecamp. You can view it 24/7.
Everything you need in one place. All documents, reports, files, images, and links are stored in an intuitive and organized way. No more searching around for lost files.
A truly great collaboration tool. It makes it very easy to leave comments, exchange ideas, monitor tasks and check off milestones.

Our 4 Children

We're a modified Brady Bunch.

our kids Rain and I each have two children. Rain's two are Miles and Beckett and Willy's are Alijah and Calliope. Alijah has a blog called All About Ben 10. Calliope has the odd ability to make her eyeballs shake in her head. Beckett loves Star Wars, Ninjas and wearing all black. All the kids love Lego but Miles is the Lego Master.

The duoSEO Cuppa Joe

Warning: Not for the faint of heart.

plastic coffee filter You need 5 things to make a perfect cup of coffee.

Whole Organic Black Gold coffee beans from Groundwork Coffee.
A plastic filter cone. These are pretty standard and can be purchased anywhere. They also make them in porcelain for those that would rather not do plastic.
Chemex coffee filters. We've tried all the filters out there and Chemex makes the best. They go with the Chemex brewer but you can use them in the plastic filter cone as well.
Coffee Bean grinder. Suffice it to say, the only way to have great coffee is to grind the beans right before you use them.
Filtered Water. The better the water, the better the coffee.

Directions:
Start heating up your water in a kettle. Place a chemex filter in your filter cone. If you're making two cups of coffee as we do, grind and place anywhere from 3.5-5 tbsp of coarsely ground coffee in the filter. If you're only making one cup, use 3 tbsp. You'll have to play around with amounts to get the desired strength you like.
Let the water come to a boil and then remove from heat for 20 seconds before pouring over grinds. Pour just enough water over the grinds to get them wet and watch them bloom. Continue pouring small amounts of water over the grinds until you have the right amount of coffee underneath. Mmmmmm.