Nearly porter-deep this beer from Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing is a hearty brown ale. My first thirsty quaff objected a bit to this one, a bit harsh and unrefined, but I’m quickly warming to this get-well gift from some colleagues. Fairly bitter, with deeply roasted roasted malt, I’m not finding it to meld quite right, possible due to lack of body. For a beer this deep, the frontend is awfully wet.

Just asking…

Thanks for all the well-wishes and such. My toe is healing, soccer is a long way off but I’m planning to return to work tomorrow, and drove a car today for the first time since Thursday. woohoo! Pain is way down, pretty much completely off the meds, but stinky because showers are a hassle! cheers.

Could it be true? Word on the street is that beer will be flowing from the Skidmore fountain in about 10 minutes….3pm, September 22. I haven’t found any real confirmations, but a lot of rumors and such. And me bound to the house. arrrr! Always the bridesmaid, never the fratboy doing a kegstand over the Skidmore Fountain.

Sitting on my ass today because I had surgery this morning. Nothing too significant, but I am missing the rest of the soccer season. Three season, I guess. There was some bone matter and cartilage mucking up the joint in my big toe. My kickin’ toe. I asked to bring the pieces home in a jar but I guess it’s hospital policy no to alow that. I was good and didn’t play soccer last night in hopes of not bashing it up worse than it is.

Beerdrinker zen.

Alright, so according to google I’m now the #1 repository for “scared kitty” and it’s taking quite a bit of traffic. Beer drinker gets plenty from the internet community, so I’ll keep holding onto it. BUT I’ve lowered the quality of this pic…saves me about 10KB per transfer which is more than it sounds like. You can still get the original at http://www.beerdrinker.org/images/scared_kitty_orig.jpg. By original, I don’t mean that I created it, because I didn’t and I have no idea who did.

So I’ve been in Oakdale and Modesto the last few days for my high school reunion. 15 years holy crap. I think I’ll submit my denial in the existence of time right now, and if you’re the noting type, please note that. But that’s not what I’m here for today. I need to send props to my classmates for being a super-cool bunch of people. I saw a ton of people (metric) who I haven’t seen in a long time.

We got a squad (Moist) in at the brand spankin new futsal jointin SE Portland for this season. In fact, our team had the honor of winning the very first league futsal game ever at the new arena. It was a bit of a blowout at 28-2. Not very nice, I think a few guys had some frustrations to unleash after our men’s team was crushed by PSU the day before.