6.15.2004
good news... bad news...
Let's recap: when we last left our hero, his television was shorting out, his 'net connection had gone down, his cordless phone was going wacky, his computer had died, and his cell phone had shorted out. I have some good news and some bad news: the cell phone has pulled a Lazarus, and has come back to life. The interesting note here is that the reanimation occurred when I got back into my car immediately after my chaperoning duties were completed. How ridiculous.
The bad news is that my computer will not be rejoining the world of the living - its problem is more an issue of the hard drive being functionally kaput. So while the good tech folk at the P. school (who own the computer at issue) can order a new drive and give me back a computer, records from the last two months of work and life, including my extensive database of the 600+ books in my library collection, are toast. All of them.
And without my computer, how will I watch Strong-Bad? :(
A final ending to the Quiz Bowl Tournament: The B team went 0 - 4, but gave some of their teams a real run for their money. Nicely done. The A team went 2 - 2, but managed to be the only team that beat the eventual winners of the entire national tournament. THE ONLY ONES!
We went to the Budweiser Brewery tour yesterday - very educational. I seriously think that the Clydesdales have it better than most third-world country dwellers. The entire brewery campus smells like fresh-baked bread, which made me quite hungry, and there is tasting to be had at the end of the tour. Before I continue, I would like to say that I abhor underage drinking and waited until I was 21 to drink. A purely legal decision: breaking the law is a bad thing. What follows is for the sole benefit of my 21+ readers and should not, under any circumstances, be construed as my condoning underage drinking, let along encouraging it. OK, on to the results:
a) Michelob Ultra - Anheuser-Busch's answer to the low-carb craze, Michelob Ultra has 2.6 grams of carbs per 12 oz. serving. Tastes like it had been made from beer. But it's not beer. It's a tan-colored water solution with a light and not very present beer flavoring added. Their ad campaign asks to "choose on taste". What taste? This tasted like soap. F.
b) Michelob Amber Bock - what they refer to as "hearty and full-bodied", this was the only beer that tasted anything remotely like beer. Drinkable, though there are other brands that do the same thing and taste better. B+
c) Bare Knuckle Stout - in the glass it appears to be a stout - it has a nice curtain effect (bubbles moving downward) and separates nicely over a 30-second period. It is dark, the head is creamy, and overall, it smells promising. This is what you get when you mix real Stout with dirty dishwater: a stout for wusses, drinkable, but barely. C-.
The bad news is that my computer will not be rejoining the world of the living - its problem is more an issue of the hard drive being functionally kaput. So while the good tech folk at the P. school (who own the computer at issue) can order a new drive and give me back a computer, records from the last two months of work and life, including my extensive database of the 600+ books in my library collection, are toast. All of them.
And without my computer, how will I watch Strong-Bad? :(
A final ending to the Quiz Bowl Tournament: The B team went 0 - 4, but gave some of their teams a real run for their money. Nicely done. The A team went 2 - 2, but managed to be the only team that beat the eventual winners of the entire national tournament. THE ONLY ONES!
We went to the Budweiser Brewery tour yesterday - very educational. I seriously think that the Clydesdales have it better than most third-world country dwellers. The entire brewery campus smells like fresh-baked bread, which made me quite hungry, and there is tasting to be had at the end of the tour. Before I continue, I would like to say that I abhor underage drinking and waited until I was 21 to drink. A purely legal decision: breaking the law is a bad thing. What follows is for the sole benefit of my 21+ readers and should not, under any circumstances, be construed as my condoning underage drinking, let along encouraging it. OK, on to the results:
a) Michelob Ultra - Anheuser-Busch's answer to the low-carb craze, Michelob Ultra has 2.6 grams of carbs per 12 oz. serving. Tastes like it had been made from beer. But it's not beer. It's a tan-colored water solution with a light and not very present beer flavoring added. Their ad campaign asks to "choose on taste". What taste? This tasted like soap. F.
b) Michelob Amber Bock - what they refer to as "hearty and full-bodied", this was the only beer that tasted anything remotely like beer. Drinkable, though there are other brands that do the same thing and taste better. B+
c) Bare Knuckle Stout - in the glass it appears to be a stout - it has a nice curtain effect (bubbles moving downward) and separates nicely over a 30-second period. It is dark, the head is creamy, and overall, it smells promising. This is what you get when you mix real Stout with dirty dishwater: a stout for wusses, drinkable, but barely. C-.
