Nice, sleepy, rainy day. BBQ lunch made huge by the carver forking over two huge burnt ends -gratis ( Read more... )

New turf Friday. FM Smokehouse is three weeks into fumigating the hood and they're doing a decent job ( Read more... )

Comp days Thur/Fri and not in the rotation this weekend free me to
visit MadreDiablo and PadreDiablo at el rancho then finish up with a visit to HermanoDiablo II in Austin.

Key Things in Place as They Could Happen, Sort of...If I Really Want It TooRoad-trip w/music, Beer, Tex-Mex, la comida de alemania, BBQ, vintage arcade games/pinball ( Read more... )

Fine weekend with Peaches en cuidad de Dallas.

►Friday: Cajun crack dining at Dodies, Gingerman and met her friends Xmasita and C-note.

►Saturday: BBQ, dark beer and chocolate, cinema.

I recommend viewing "Beware of Mr.Baker". Excellent character study/musical documentary.

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Night out with the crew hitting Ten Bells, Eno's and Gingerman.
More for fresh air than break new ground but fun all around plus a classic smoked meal
at Lockhart's BBQ. No testicle jokes please. :>

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No calls -fifth night in a row. I slept as normal people do. Bad start but a nice finish
-got to have some fun this weekend. Things are going to suck for the others because...

I'm on vacation from Tuesday on and will be dumping my project off on the others.
Heading down to el rancho to see Madre and PadreDiablo. BBQ, chainsaws and backwoods drankin'
to ( Read more... )

Evoken's “Atra Mors” made for an enjoyable drive down to Austin -they now hand out a complimentary
pint of craft beer when you get inside city limits.

Hung with HermanoDiablo II -late lunch at East Side Pies [ESP] and gave the re-release of Lone Star Bock a test drive.
No bad but will work through the rest of the six pack to see if it's worth a repeat ( Read more... )

Compressed weekend with me being on-call back-up [Wallair is in military reserve{waste}]
and I'm personally overseeing fiber connectivity of the first wave of storage boxes tonight.

And...I fly out to Cali-forn-I-A on Sunday for a SHARE convention, a “happening” for
“mainframe professionals with continuous education and training, valuable professional ( Read more... )

Nice extended weekend began on Thursday headed to El Rancho to visit Madre and PadreDiablo.
With sampler flight stops at some solid brewpubs[1, 2 ], then an unintended detour at a bourbon distillery while on the way to a
back woods icehouse, produced a wonderful day.

The routine visit yielded one horror: PadreDiablo learned to text.

Wagon East
Casual, ( Read more... )

Moving slow today -as planned for the trip into downtown Raleigh for lunch at The Pit.
Slightly above average 'que but the thing that made the trip worthwhile is that the place is craft beer friendly.

Sexual Chocolate Impy Stout -a limbo of either on tap last week or will be tapped next week plagued me but Pit had it on tap ( Read more... )