So they made the announcement today that I’m the new Manager of Electronic Design and my title was updated in the HR system. Don’t really have much to add to that for now, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m excited though…
Didn’t really get anywhere on the redesign yet. Still hashing out a dozen different ideas and am uncertain with which way I want to go. I didn’t even really finish a simple coming soon page to throw up in the meantime and just link over to this. So this post is still hidden to the world…lol.
In any event, it was a peaceful weekend. Burned through some terrible movies on Netflix. Made some BBQ porkchops and chicken curry. Tried some interesting tequila and picked up the new Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Ale over at Khourys. Now I’m just going through some Sunday tv. It’s almost time for True Blood!
This week should be an interesting one…
Well now that I actually have somewhere to post again, might as well make use of it.
The last few months have been much the same. Work has been very busy with more transitioning. So I guess we’ll see how things land this time.
Over the past few months Skizofrenia closed down and some new nights popped up. Can’t say I’ve had any real urge to go out to these places. Haven’t missed it really. I imagine at some point I’ll check out the new venue if I’m bored.
Been enjoying the homebrewing and craft beer stuff. Aces has had some really great events, the meetups have been fun, my latest tripel wasn’t half bad, and been able to tick off a couple more of my big wants. Couple weeks ago I went down to Escondido for the Stone Sour beer festival. What a great place that bistro and garden is. So many excellent sour beers. Cascade, Cantillon, Lost Abbey…oh man. We ended up making our way to Pizza Port Carlsbad and their bottle shop after the event. They have some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. Even better was the place is walking distance from the beach. First time I’d ever been to the Pacific ocean. The whole day was such a blast.
Still not sure what I want to do with the site. I have a dozen ideas floating in my head. Not sure if I want to integrate Word Press into it or not either yet. I guess we’ll see what happens when I have time.
Well at least I think I got all of my old back posts into Word Press. About 840 posts dating back to 2001. This week I’ll begin working on my own skin and redesign for my website (hopefully)…and then this will actually moved back over to public.
Its sucked not being able to post through my old Blogger account after they discontinued FTP publishing. I could have setup some stuff on my domain name to still work with Google account, but my registrar wanted $30 a year or something to let me edit DNS records. No thanks. This will be a good reason to finally get off my ass and redo my website after 5 years, and mess around in Word Press.
WordPress is incredibly easy to use. However, 1 and 1 is about the worst web host ever. Trying to import all my old blog over is taking hours since the server times out every 5 seconds. 1 and 1 is worse than Cox at this point…
Watching this first UFC event on Versus, but its boring me. The commercials did remind me of the big rematch tomorrow, Red Wings vs Penguins. Cindy Crosby needs to go. Ugh, I hate him.
Speaking of hockey, sadly I didn’t go to the Thirsty Thursday Wrangler’s game. Work was too busy and I had no energy. Then of course, the game was an 8-7 overtime victory. Which would have been much better than the game we went to on Saturday…an incredibly boring 3-2 loss.
I oaked my stout beer over the weekend. Depending on how quickly the cubes work, I’ll probably bottle in the next couple weeks.
Should be a busy enough week. Business meeting tomorrow for some freelance work. A Dogfish Head beer event Tuesday at Aces. Golfing at Callaway either Wednesday or Thursday. Monthly meetup at Aces Friday. Club, birthdays, more UFC, and who knows what else over the weekend.
Back to the fights…and then part 2 of The Pacific.
Sitting here waiting for the 3rd period of the Red Wings and Flames game, I figured I’d finally update this bitch.
I’m also finishing up a bottle of Deschutes Jubel 2010 so I might as well start off with what has been probably the best week of beer I’ve ever had. I was fortunate to get my hands on the holy grail of beers, a Westvleteren 12. It did not disappoint at all. Any debate there was earlier this year between Westy 12 and Pliny the Younger should be forgotten. Westy 12 blows it away. I was able to try PtY a couple weeks back as well, and while it had an amazing aroma and tasted pretty good, it was no where near as good as Westy 12 or even some other beers from Russian River (Pliny The Elder, Supplication, Consecration…).
The same night I also had what is now my second and third favorite beers: The Bruery’s Black Tuesday and Firestone Walker Abacus. Combine those beers with a Firestone 11, some XXI, a Mischief, Russian River Consecration and Supplication, Bell’s Expedition Stout, the Buckbean beer festival out at Lake Las Vegas, and a Tactical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog and I was in beer heaven! The Tactical Nuclear Penguin deserves a bit more commentary, considering it was the highest abv beer in the world when it came out (32%) and pretty damn rare (only 500 bottles). I cant say anyone thought it was great…but its just so different and a very weird experience to try.
There’s still a few beers on my list that I’m dying to get my hands on even though I’ve had the 2 consensus best beers, and the most extreme beer all in the last month. The big ones left on my list right now would be Sam Adams Utopias, Three Floyd’s Dark Lord, Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout, Portsmouth Kate The Great, Lost Abbey Yellow Bus, and Allagash Gargamel.
Man that’s a lot of beer talk.
Now on to something I know you all care even less about…hockey! Its the last month of the regular season and Detroit is actually fighting for a playoff game. They really need to win tonight against Calgary (Detroit is #8 and only 1 point ahead of #9 Calgary). The Wranglers have picked it up as of late and should be ok. I’ll probably head out to the last couple dollar beer games and then a few playoff games.
Other than beer and hockey, there’s only a few more things to mention.
We’ve adjusted at work with the move from IT to advertising. The Olympics have come and gone (awesome gold medal hockey game). Been out golfing a few times already and actually been playing much improved. Colt hooked me up with a friends and family key for the Starcraft 2 beta. Been doing a lot of the typical Friday/Saturday club nights. Was treated to another awesome dinner at Craftsteak. Hurt Locker and Moon were both really good. Had a few good crazy bro nights. I brewed my first beer (basic kit, wasn’t anything special) and have my second one in the fermenter now (should be ready in a few weeks).
Uhm…I think that’s about it really. The 3rd period is almost over and its still tied up.
More beer, golf, and hockey are on deck. I’ll try not to be so lazy about posting.
Oh shit…Detroit just scored with 1:19 left! Yes!
New post soon. Just been busy. =(
There’s been some really good TV this fall, especially some of the finales. Sons of Anarchy, Monk, and Dexter in particular were really good.
This year there weren’t that many shows worth going too, but these last 2 weeks I ended up going to 3: Dethklok, Metallica, and Skinny Puppy. Michelle has been really cool with hooking the group up with stuff at HoB, including the Dethklok and Skinny Puppy shows. Skinny Poppy we even got the skybox, which was a total blast. Its such a different experience up there. Metallica I also lucked out into a free ticket, with Ken having extras from his group. We hit up Burger Bar before hand, which is now a giant 0 for 2 hole. The service is just beyond terrible there.
Barnaby’s new Sanctuary night started up last week. So I actually checked that out after Metallica. Its a throwback to the old Bistro days, though the place is a lot better than City Lights. It’ll be interesting to see how things go with Friday still being the big night at Skizo, competing Saturday nights now, and whenever that other thing is now.
Added a few more beers to my list since last posting. The 2009 Abyss and the Black Butte XXI from Deschutes are both out now. Solid beers each, but the one that I really enjoyed was the Nogne O Porter. Blew them both away. I talked to the guys at Khoury’s and actually gave them the heads up just in time to get the Blue Moon Grand Cru from the Coors guys. I ended up being the middle man for the group, buying 8 or so bottles for everyone to split up at Greg’s one night. Not quite worth the price point, but really good…especially for those who are just starting to get more into beers. The other big picks up I have the Firestone Walker Reserve 13, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, and the Dogfish Head World Wide Stout. I’ll probably save those for a little gathering to share. I know the previous Bourbon County Stout was a real beast to finish and the World Wide Stout is 18% ABV. The 13 I’m really curious about. It’s a variety of 7 super strong ales all barrel aged differently and then blended by expert winemakers…
Hrmm, what else. Kyle came over for UFC Saturday. The fights this weekend were actually one of the better cards of the year. Diego Sanchez got absolutely destroyed over 4 1/2 rounds. Frank Mir didn’t even get touched as he dropped Cheick Kongo and then choked him out.
The years almost over. CityCenter has been opening in parts. ARIA is this week. Holiday stuff will be soon. Need to figure out where to go for our end of the year dinner still.
The years almost over…only about a month left! Where’d the year go?
Thanksgiving has come and gone. Typical family dinner thing Thursday and relaxing/partying the rest of the weekend. The Lions predictably lost.
Wednesday we got out a bit early and I went with my boss to Aces & Ales for the Stone beer event. Oaked Bastard, Double Bastard, RIS, Jolly Pumpkin collaboration, and others. Friday and Saturday was a double dose of goth clubbing and all you can drink nights (Skizofrenia and Ghostmachine). Toss in some Double Down and Crown & Anchor and I guess it was a pretty eventful weekend with friends.
With the extra days off I caught up on quite a bit of my Netflix instant queue. I did do a little freelance stuff too. I also went through my beer kit and kind of figured out what I wanted to do with my first home brew. I was too lazy to go through the process of sanitizing all the stuff and start up the first batch. Sometime this week though…