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The past few weeks

Yeah, it’s been a few weeks since my last post, which means it’s recap time!

Work has been keeping me plenty busy. Many long hours and late nights. It’s been good, but very exhausting.

We had a petty nasty wind storm a couple weeks back. The large tree in front of the house lost about five 8-9 foot long branches. The front yard looked like a war zone. Branches, twigs, and needles blanketing everything. It took a good few hours of sawing and raking to get it mostly cleaned up.

On the morning of Obama’s inauguration I had to rush into a dentists to get a filling replaced (one that’d started breaking loose from a molar a few months ago). It wasn’t what I would call fun, but it’s all good now.

Portland got a bit more snow earlier this week. Just enough that my bus got stuck trying to go up an incline (the bus wasn’t chained up). After getting stuck, I got off and walked back home and worked from there for the rest of the day. The strangest part was by 5pm it was 40 degrees and all the snow was gone.

My kid brother C turned 24 this week, and he and brother T came over to my pub (my garage) for a few beers, some pizza, and some dart throwing. Happy birthday C!

Tonight Kelly and I met some friends at the Goose for some dinner and beers. Yum.

I picked up a Roku (used for $80) earlier this week. So far I’m pretty impressed, the streaming quality is pretty good. Kelly’s watching An American in Paris as I write this. She’s quite excited.

Oh, and I got another keg of Guinness today (after the last one ran dry about two weeks ago). I swore I was going to get something different, but I couldn’t help it, Guinness is just too delicious. Yum!

Other than that, I’ve been watching Lost and Battlestar Galactica now that those are both back on, and as I said above, working.

That pretty much covers it, I think.

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Beer Food Work

Work, work, GOOSE!

Back to the grind today. Sadly, I had a terrible night’s sleep. After going to bed at around 11pm I laid there, wide awake, until nearly 1am. And then woke up frequently throughout the night. I probably got about 4 hours of sleep before my alarm went off. I then promptly cursed the gods (and my alarm).

At work, I spent most of my day in meetings; planning and coordinating the next couple weeks, and looking ahead to the next couple months. Hopefully tomorrow I can get some real work done.

After work I met up with my friend Timmy, visiting from out of town. He and I both share the love of the Goose Hollow Inn reuben sandwich, so we met there to gorge ourselves. I had a couple pints of Guinness, and was pleased to learn that one portion of their patio still (for now, anyway) is allowing smoking, since said area sits just outside of the 10 foot range from the door. I was pleasantly surprised. At least I know I can go there if I want a smoke AND a beer at the same time. Fellow smokers (and reuben lovers) rejoice!

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General Work

The dreaded last day of vacation

Well, it’s finally come, my last day of my two weeks off. And as usual, it seems to have flown by faster than seems possible. In that time there’s been a big snow storm, Christmas, and New Years, so it’s been an eventful couple weeks, yet somehow I still feel like I’ve only had a couple days off.

My sadness is made somewhat worse because the next couple weeks at work are going to be pretty stressful (lots to get done, lots to wrap up for the next release, lots to start on for the next release). This probably means I’ll go silent on the blogging again for a bit. It’s nothing personal. 😉

Right now I’m pretending I still have loads of time before tomorrow morning comes around, and chuckling that it’s snowing again.

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Beer

Guinness, back on tap!

I was finally able to acquire another keg of Guinness today. It’s a beautiful thing. I’m now enjoying a pint and a smoke in my “pub” (aka, my garage). All is well. This makes the fouth consecutive keg of Guinness in my kegerator. I almost chose something else (Trumer Pils, Amstel Light, Terminal Gravity ESG), but there’s just something about the winter weather makes Guinness seem so right.

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Beer Entertainment Food General

Hey look, it’s 2009!

Last night Kelly and I had a small group of frinds over for our annual New Years Eve party. It was smaller than expected, but that didn’t stop Kelly from making enough food for a small army (as usual). I was unable to get a keg of the beer I wanted (Guinness) in time, so the kegerator was sad, but it all worked out fine. We ended up spending a couple hours playing with our new Wii, and while we were playing Wii Bowling, I learned that my friend J is something of a Wii Bowling master, and that Ghost Dog has some nice spin technique. We had a great time, and thanks to those who were able to make it. For everybody else, Happy New Year.