Friday 11/28/2025
Took a nice walk with Joanne in the morning. For coffee we stopped at a new place. We’d noticed that a new coffee bar had opened just a couple of doors away from Verve, a well-established place, and across the street from Starbucks. Pretty nervy, so we stopped in to check it out.
Turns out, this is a Yummy robot cafe. There were a couple of people behind the counter who took our orders and money, but the actual coffees were made by a robotic mechanism — actually a small mechanized assembly line, dispensing a cup, holding it under a spout, etc. Then the cashier calls your name and you go get it. We both commented that they should finish the design with delivery robots like we have in our dining room.
The coffees were not great. They don’t have different sizes, no small or large cappuccino, just one about 10 oz. No asking for a “dry” cap. My cappuccino was indistinguishable from a small latte at any other shop. If the robot assembly line can’t be set up to do different sizes of drinks, and drinks with different amounts of foam, milk, and coffee, and can’t deliver to a table, what’s the point? We’ll probably go back to Verve.
We stopped at the Little Sky bakery pop-up store as usual on a Friday, and at Ace hardware because I wanted some superglue.
At 11 I met with Peter in the auditorium and we worked out a problem he had with projecting a Netflix movie on our big screen.
Then it was time to leave for the Museum to lead the noon tour, or actually the 12:15 tour because, anticipating a big post-holiday crowd, they’d booked two docents for each scheduled tour. There were about 35 or 40 people ready at 12, so I took half on a side trip around the other areas of the museum while the other docent, Larry, took his half into the main space. So I ended up talking to these people for almost two hours. They seemed pleased and I kept their attention the whole time. I feel pretty pleased about that performance.
Back home I practiced Feliz Navidad a bit.
Codgerville 