You don't even get a full recap today
Another weekend is over with and work resumes. The prospect of a work stoppage is now in the past so it's business as usual. It was the Little 500 in town this past weekend, so I spent most of the time avoiding it. The lady friend had to work an odd schedule for the event: getting there for lunch crowd, leaving around dinner, then coming back for the late night shift. With the mystery box arriving on Thursday night, we decided to meet up Friday morning for breakfast and hostage exchange; we just called it an early birthday, as our gifts to each other were intended to be birthday presents. I got her an Android tablet off of a recent woot.com sale (Viewsonic's Tegra 2-powered gTablet) along with a microSD card. What she got me exceeded all expectations. It was a Bear's beer bucket with four bottles in tow: Three Floyd's Apocalypse Cow (Double IPA, had it once before), Three Floyd's Arctic Panzer Wolf (Imperial IPA, never had it), Russian River's Pliny the Elder (Double IPA, never heard of it but simply amazing), and, the highlight, Goose Island's Rare Bourbon County (Double bourbon-barrel Imperial Stout, one batch ever, hand-numbered bottles). The average RateBeer overall score for the four is 99.5/100. The Pliny had a note on it to drink ASAP (loses much of its flavor when aged even a little), so we split the bottle before breakfast. She usually doesn't like IPA's that much, but she really liked this one. I have to say, it may be the best beer I have ever tasted. It's not sold around here, but I submitted a request at a local Big Red, who received a request for that same beer earlier in the week, and they said they definitely want to try and get it stocked. Fingers crossed. The other three are waiting for the right moment. I figure the Arctic Panzer Wolf will be a real birthday beer, while the Rare Bourbon County(can be aged 2-5 years) needs something more momentous than that. So, yeah, best "birthday" ever.
The gTablet was purchased in a pair, so we each have one. I had a full day of use before the lady friend got hers charged and some free time to play around with it, but she seems to be having some fun with it. She had previously mentioned wanting to buy an Android tablet over the summer after some full time employment, so it wasn't entirely random. The screen doesn't have a very good viewing angle, but is fine straight on. The software, despite reviews, isn't that bad as recent updates have boosted performance, set the slow Tap'n'Tap UI to optional, and included Flash. There are still some apps I can't seem to find, but Amazon's Appstore and a few online repositories have done a decent job filling in some of the gaps. I don't know if the lady friend has done anything with Amazon's service, but that could make for something to do next opportunity.
The gTablet was purchased in a pair, so we each have one. I had a full day of use before the lady friend got hers charged and some free time to play around with it, but she seems to be having some fun with it. She had previously mentioned wanting to buy an Android tablet over the summer after some full time employment, so it wasn't entirely random. The screen doesn't have a very good viewing angle, but is fine straight on. The software, despite reviews, isn't that bad as recent updates have boosted performance, set the slow Tap'n'Tap UI to optional, and included Flash. There are still some apps I can't seem to find, but Amazon's Appstore and a few online repositories have done a decent job filling in some of the gaps. I don't know if the lady friend has done anything with Amazon's service, but that could make for something to do next opportunity.