http://blog.circusgeek.com random stuff Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm a very heavy sleeper. It takes a great deal for me to wake up normally. Kelly has been known to come nudge me, more than once, to crawl my butt out of bed. I just sleep heavy. So imagine my surprise when I suddenly wake up at 3am to some house-shaking ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/07/03/flash-kaboomrumble-rumble Today I went to the North American Organic Brewers Festival. Kelly is volunteering there today and tomorrow, so I thought I'd go and show my support. Which meant going and drinking beer. Pretty hard to pass that up. The festival itself was a quite a bit of fun, and was fairly ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/06/28/organic-brewfest-and-a-ghost-dog-birthday The comic genius George Carlin passed away yesterday at the age of 71. Sad. I've been listening to his comedy for 20 years, and am going to miss is musings on society, faith, and everyday inane subjects. Found this video just now, thought it's a fitting way to end the post... ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/06/23/george-carlin-rip The keg of Guinness is dead. My brother and I finished off what was left of it tonight. It died at approx. 10:30pm PST. It lived a short, but mirth-filled life of two weeks, one day, and three hours. I will take your condolences now. I was surprised at how quickly ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/06/19/believe-it-or-not Over the past couple weeks I've been drinking a lot more beer than I normally would. I'm torn on whether that's a good or bad thing. It's good in that I really like beer, especially Guinness, but it's bad for my waistline. Oh well. The good news is that it's ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/06/18/guinness-continues-to-flow Since the last post, I had a nice end of my two week vacation. A couple relaxing days that allowed me to get back into our timezone. During that time I also discovered that Belmont Station carries the Bruges beer that Kelly and I had much of on our trip, ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/06/08/since-the-trip Got home yesterday around 1:30pm. The flight was decent. I watched a couple movies and got a 20 minute nap in (nearly a record for me, I can't really sleep on planes). After getting home and getting unpacked Kelly and I went to the store for some food, made dinner, ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/05/29/home-and-other-stuff It's late here in Amsterdam on our last night. Getting up early tomorrow morning to fly home. Had a great time in Amsterdam. Yesterday we visited a few churches, the former location of a nunnery, and went to Rembrandt Huis, the former home of Rembrandt for many years here in Amsterdam. ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/05/27/last-night-in-amsterdam-home-tomorrow Two and a half hours on the train and we're now in our hotel in Amsterdam. It's a bit rainy today, which kinda sucks, but it's just as charming as I remember it, and we're in a decent hotel that's only about a 10 minute walk from the train station ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/05/25/in-amsterdam It's been an interesting few days here in Brussels. A couple days ago we took the metro out and visited the amazing Atomium. It was very impressive to see (and go inside of). Looking at it from a distance makes it look like it couldn't possibly be real, and that ... http://blog.circusgeek.com/2008/05/25/brussels-and-off-to-amsterdam