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So, I’ve been gone for a little while. In fact, too long.

I’ve had a lot going on in my life, and I find it harder and harder to get myself to sit down and write. My appologies to anyone who reads this blog. However, I have something to show for it.

The past several weeks, my roommates and I have been putting a lot of our effort into building our new bar.

Kevin is quite the carpenter, and did much of the framing and much of the bar. Justin and I were able to help out also, particularly in the finishing work. Overall the bar’s dimensions are pretty big. It is an L shape, and comes out from the wall about six feet, and then tails off for another six. We designed the bar from scratch and built it as such. There is a draft beer system, consisting of a refrigerator conversion. We can store a quarter keg of beer on tap. We hope to finish the entire basement (where the bar resides) and fit it with a projection system. Should be great for the rest of football season!

PS. I have a new comic idea, should have one out soon.

booze

After spending a few days in Boston - and more importantly, spending a few minutes at home resting after the long ride back - it’s time to write about the trip! Overall it was an excellent experience… it was nice to see a few of my friends that are living out in Boston, and it was also nice to bring a few of my friends out there with me to experience First Night!

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booze, friends, life, travel

So, I will write a full Boston trip entry when I get home - with pictures and everything… but here is what happened today!

We left Rochester around midnight. The drive took about 6 hours and was actually a lot of fun listening to music and just shooting the shit with Geoff and Brian. The Garmin GPS was a life saver since 90 was closed at one point due to downed powerlines! The GPS fixed us up and got us farther along with no trouble. Woo!

Anyway, we got in a little after 6. We stopped and got some breakfast. We were able to check in super early too! So we all took a nap before heading to the Samuel Adams Brewery tour. The tour was amazing - I’ll write more about it later.. but simply amazing! I highly recommend it.

We spent the rest of the evening running around just exploring the city. More stories later - time to relax!

booze, travel

I got home from Buffalo Wild Wings tonight in an, amused mood, to say the least. Sure, I was a little tipsy from the beer, and sure, it was past 2am and I was beginning to get a little lethargic. However, something interesting happened tonight… I finally got up the courage to talk to a waitress I had a class with years ago. Don’t shun me yet, I really am not that creepy. I told her she looked familiar, she replied that I looked familiar as well, and we eventually struck up conversation about it. Yes, I knew exactly how I knew her, but I couldn’t come out and say it - that would be … awkward - but I was able to maintain nice chatting for a while. By the end of the night, we had determined that it was the class that we were in together. Ok cool. Not much of a story though right? Right.

Yes, I facebooked the waitress, and her status was engaged (I was a bit sad, but whatever). However, Discussion about tonight sparked an interesting conversation with a friend. My friend is a great guy, but he is jaded. He says it is just real life that caused him to be this way, but he brought up a good point.

Girls today aren’t what girls were when we were growing up.

Well, of course there is normal cultural change, but, my friend argues that most women are (paraphrasing) loose, crazy, cheaters, bitches, unwilling to have true relationships, self-serving, slutty, (and he goes on..). Well, I wasn’t quite ready to swallow that. I have lots of female friends that don’t fall into any of those categories.

Well. Several.

Ok, Ok… a couple.

I am not kidding. I tried to think about all the girls I am friends with… and to be honest I can count on my hand the ones that do not fit into ANY of those categories, or haven’t since I’ve known them. Why is this?

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booze, life, relationships

What an hour to still be awake. Here comes the stream of consciousness

I kind of have to look at this past week and describe it as one stupid event after another. I put my foot in my mouth several times, I upset my best friend, Had other friends stop talking to me all together, and of course, I got even more behind on all my classwork.

However, I also used this week to try to really continue with my ‘reinvention‘. I was notably more outgoing at no voice zone. I also forced myself to just talk to people. Sure, all of the things I did may have caused some of the undesirable consequences mentioned before, but… it was worth it?

I find I haven’t been able to sleep lately. I need to listen to music to lull me to sleep - and it has never been that way before. Not totally sure if this will get better when break hits at the end of the week.

Speaking of. Is it Friday yet?

I have been programming in JAVA again as of late. My XML class project seems interesting, and in my excitement I have been putting that assignment on the top of my queue…. much to the dismay of my other courses (if they cared?). I wrote a pretty nifty drag tool. Maybe if I get some time when its not so late to post the logic behind it.. I will.

I think I may withdraw from my Beers of the World class right before the last day to withdraw… only so I can spend more time on other homework than it… because seriously, even an hour of working on homework for a class that is of no credit value to me as a grad student is silly when I have hours of other work to do.

I’ve been listening to music I haven’t listened to in a while, including Lucky Boys Confusion, Bon Jovi and Shades Apart.

I think I need to leave Rochester. I already know I am going to Boston over the break to work on TAP, but I really don’t know if that will quench my thirst. It might be time to throw a dart at a map and just do it.

I need to meet someone new that intrigues me.

I also need to sleep. So, here goes attempt 2.

booze, coding, life, rambling

This coming quarter I am going to be taking the “Beers of the World” course offered here at RIT. So, I have decided to do a little prep work. I just took my first trip to the store Beers of the World here in Rochester, and purchased (with the advice of a co-worker), six beers that I have never had before.

The goal is, I will try them, see what I like, take notes on what I buy and taste so I can keep track for future reference, then continue to purchase new beers and continue to broaden my palette. For those of you that know my picky eating habits, that is something you would rarely hear me say, but I am going to try! I even bought a new bottle opener just for this momentous occasion.

booze, education