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Beer General

A very Spring-like February weekend

The weather here in Portland, unlike the East Coast or northern Europe, has been very spring-like the past several days. Yesterday the temperature reached 61 I think, with sunny skies. It’s hard to believe it’s mid-February.

Taking advantage of this weather, I spent the past couple days outside working on my yard; Pruning, raking, edging, trimming, and filling several yard debris bags. Things are starting to shape up. I’m exhausted, but I’m having what I believe is the best tasting pint of Guinness ever, sitting on the front porch in the sun.

Oh yeah, related to my previous post, I picked up the new keg yesterday. Had I known the old one had so much left in it before Friday I wouldn’t have babied it all week. Sheesh!

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Travel Work

August recap & we’re going to Hawaii

Yup, another month, and despite all my hopes to write more frequently, I keep using Twitter to spout my nonsense, rather than writing to my blog.

To keep it quick:

  • Early August Kelly and I joined our friends in Eagle Crest (photos)
  • Worked a ton (late nights and weekends)
  • The weather has gone from stupid hot to cold to hot again
  • Had the mother-in-law in town from Arizona
  • Continued yardwork action, trying to keep the place in order
  • Planned a trip to Hawaii

The last bullet is the important one. Kelly and I are going to Hawaii at the end of the month, and I’m really excited about it. We’re renting an oceanfront house south of Kona on the big island for 6 nights. Since 2001, all our travels have been to Europe, which I love, but that means a lot of cathedrals, museums, pubs, and big cities. I’m looking forward to spending a few days swimming in the ocean, and doing (hopefully) not too much in a tropical environment.

The house we’re renting has WiFi, so I expect to be blogging and posting photos while there. Doubt I’ll write too much more between now and then since we have have more family visiting next weekend, and I have even more work to do. So for the 2 of you who follow my blog (I assume it’s down to two, since my posts have been so infrequent), expect more at the end of the month.

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Beer General Technology Work

Damn, it’s HOT (and some excuses)

Holy crap it’s hot out! Got to 95 here in Portland. Yikes!

Anyway, been a while (nearly a month) since I’ve posted, and I’ve had stuff to write about. For those who subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed, you’re going to see a few posts that I’m going to back-date (because I want it dated correctly in the blog), so when you see some of these posts, the present tense I write will be referring to the real date, not today’s date. For everyone else, just ignore this entire paragraph, ok? Thanks.

Two reasons for my lack of blogging activities of late: Work, and Twitter. The latter has successfully managed to usurp much of my “hey, this is what I’ve been doing lately” style transmissions. Combine that with a heavy workload, and the result is massive blog rot. To the 3 or 4 people who actually read this blog: sorry ’bout that. However, I’m pretty sure most people who read this also follow me on Twitter, so it’s probably not a big deal. I guess I’m just feeling guilty as I watch the date of the last post recede further and further into the past. Oh yeah, again, for anyone who doesn’t reads my blog via RSS, ignore this paragraph too, ok? Good.

Today (yes, the real today, July 2nd) I took the day off of work, and spent the day just hanging around the house, keeping indoors due to the heat. I did manage to scan some more photos, sort some music, watch some TV and play a bit on the Wii. I spent the (now tolerable) evening writing the blog posts mentioned above, and sipping on beers. Never left the house, which was fantastic. Tomorrow is supposed to be as hot as it was today, but I’ll actually be doing some running around, so it will be less ‘chill’ than today. Anyway, that’s it for now. Keep cool folks.