find a nook-ish cafe to sit and write in

I read a review on another place in the city which sounds cool but cozy too and not too expensive. I went to find it on Saturday but it was closed. There were no opening times on the door but it did have a sign advertising happy hour or something on a Monday and Tuesday so I assume it is only open on week days. Next time I have a day off I will check it out again.

My secret favorite place to sit & write in!
Not secret any more after this entry though.

Panera Bread!
I LOVE it there!

Although I have done quite a bit of eating lunch there, I have yet to do any writing.

But the food is great, it’s so cozy!
I even eat there by myself!

I LOVE the Sierra Turkey sandwich & the Chicken-Tortilla soup!
And they even have Iced-Tea!

If you haven’t tried it yet you should!
If you like soups & sandwiches & such!

Yay after 101 cheers on this goal!
My goal is DONE!

I found a place which was nookish with a cool atmosphere and I felt really comfortable there. However it’s a cafe-restaurant-bar so it’s fairly expensive and also I dont think they have a sort of sitting for hours philosophy like some cafes do.

So close, but not perfect. This will be my provisional place to hang out but only as a treat rather than a regular thing, and I will keep searching.

...or read in, or just sit and people watch in.

I love cafes or coffee shops, but I’m not fond of the chain ones (Starbucks, Costa, Nero’s) prices as I do this quite regularly.

So I’m now on the hunt for an independant cafe with a nice atmosphere and decent prices so I can do this to my heart’s content :-)

maybe its my obsession with films that feature people meeting in cafes! i will do it!

i would kill to find this fucking place.

So, I’ve decided to start going to this little cafe near my house, to write, every morning before work. I’m proud to have found a little place, with lots of character, whose atmosphere is miles better than certain coffee chains.

I went this morning, and it felt really good. It was enough to wake me up and inspire me – it really made me feel good and optimistic about the day ahead. I have coffee every morning anyway, why not make it enjoyable?!

I was in Reno last week, tagging along on one of my wife’s business trips. She had a meeting one afternoon in a conference room at the Peppermill casino. Now, we’d been hanging around in casinos for a couple days, so smoke and flashing lights and lack of windows wasn’t surprising. But the Peppermill went way beyond typical casinos; it was filled with lots of blue and red neon, it was dark, it was noisy, and filled with at least thirty years of smoke and nicotine. It was a maze. Heck, it might have been a gate to the underworld, but I doubt I would have been able to find that famous gateway in that disorder, and I sure wouldn’t have been able to read “Abandon faith, all ye who enter here” over it until someone managed to hit a jackpot

Have fun, dear. I’m getting out of here while I can.

So I go driving down Virginia Street trying to find some place to get away from the casino insanity. Driving down Virginia, I saw it all—casinos, worn out malls, strip clubs. Eventually, I found it, some place I could relax and forget where I was.

Yep, I found a Starbucks.

And even though I’m not a big fan of chains, and not a particular fan of Starbucks, I was so happy to be somewhere without bells ringing and slot machines rolling and zombiefied oldsters staring slack-jawed at the one armed bandits. I was ecstatic, I was somewhere safe.

I didn’t do any writing, but I did read an author’s self-published mystery, and got some nice chances to think about how good fiction feels.

And I was safe.

No coffee shop. not even a starbucks or anything.

should be fairly easy to accomplish. I would like to actually start checking things as done on my list.

I did check out a new coffee place it was small though.
I think that I will go back if they have entertainment. I will take my journal with me to write in.