Whitnall Park skiing

... a fine day for skiing.

Beer School: Three Floyds 101

For our February class, Professor Drew took the night off as the head brewer from Three Floyds took over. These guys sure know their stuff. I will put up a more detailed rundown of the beers later. But needless to say, they were all good. The Alpha Kong was the exceptional standout. Unfortunately it's not really that available, but hopefully next time I'm near there I might be able to pick up some in the Three Floyd's growler I acquired Tuesday night. (Thanks Jeanne and Rick!)

Rewards of skiing uphill

So I have gotten to go out to Lapham Peak State Park to skii three, yes three times this year! Four times skiing total! I'm well on my way to a record year. The conditions the last time weren't the best, a little icy and a little thin in spots, but its a great trail with some great people out there. They are also well on their way to having snow machines for the trails when we don't get lucky enough for snow. They have a candlelight ski next weekend. I put a little lubricant on the old skiis this time so downhill was slightly better. I made a really bad video of that in fact, hopefully you don't throw up if you watch it.

Teaching

So I got my first taste of teaching this week at UWM... it was... interesting! Really is weird being back in academia after all these years. And especially weird looking at it from the other side of the fence. Was impressed by some and underwhelmed by others. They all seem to be trying tho, which is good. Not sure if that kind of thing would be for me, jumping into the middle of someone else's classes might have made things a bit weird (I am less artistic than the person I was substituting for) because I wasn't sure exactly where to point the students. Had some good conversations tho about design and watched Helvetica again, which is always enjoyable!

2008 Beer Events!

They have begun:

Mid-Winter Brewfest, February 10
Milwaukee Ale House, Milwaukee

Bockfest (blessing of the Bock), February 23
Capital Brewery, Madison

Great Taste of the Midwest, August 9
Olin-Turville Park, Madison

Hops & Props, March 1
EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh

20th Annual Blessing of the Bock & Milwaukee Beer Festival, March 9
Bavarian Inn, Glendale

4th Annual World of Beer Festival, June 7
Schwabenhof, Menomonee Falls

...not to mention monthly beer schools and now beer dinners! I'm sure there will be more to come, but that's definitely a good start. Hope to see our fellow beer lovers there! (Food & Froth is purposely NOT on the list this year!)

Misc.

Nothing too exciting going on. But a lot of new "stuff" coming soon. Some custom kitchen chairs are coming in a few weeks (www.barsandbooths.com) so that's exciting, as well as new attic windows. It's also time to buckle down and put my freelance money to work and get a new Apple rig. Still debating tween a tower and an iMac. More later...