theneedle.net

Wedding stuff:

bobandangela.org is finally up and running, albeit not too attractive & without much content. I’m taking Friday off work to take care of a bunch of stuff – maybe I’ll have a few minutes to pretty it up.  Invites should be put together by Friday night & sent by Monday.  We’ve got totally cool James Mitchner stamps.  I don’t know anything about Mitchner, aside from occasionally seeing his books wedged into the bookcase at Carey’s, but he looks a bit like a cross between The Dude & Dick Cheney.  Scary.

Beer stuff:

I’ve updated the long neglected homebrew section of theneedle so it now lists the stuff I’ve brewed since August.  I switched over to Promash at that point & forgot to enter things on-line.  I need to get better about record keeping.  I’m never going to know how strong that Bretty Cherry Saison is.  Boo.   Other beeriness, I’m headed to a friend’s place for a tasting Saturday night.  Should be fun & it’ll be the public unveiling of the Double IPA Tim & I brewed.

Buffalo stuff:

There is a meeting on Community Gardens at the Science Museum tomorrow.  I’m going to try to make it, assuming my pointless meeting in the ‘burbs doesn’t run too long.  Also, what the hell is up with the Sabres?  Don’t they know that without the playoffs I have no excuse to hang out at a bar, every other night, until sometime in June?

Music:

New Dalek – Meh.  Newish Mogwai – Meh.  Newish Animal Collective – not as shiny after a few listens. New Fire On Fire – good, but it makes me feel dirty, like I’m listening to something I shouldn’t.  New Black Dice Tracks – Reallllly good.  New Pan*American – meh.  It seems that I want to listen to either minimal stuff or wacked out early Butthole Surfers stuff these days.  What does that say about my mental state?

I do tend to forget about this.  I’ll try to be better.  For now though, a few bullet points:

• Plans are slowly moving forward for the wedding (June 6th).  Http://www.bobandangela.org coming soon.
• I won medals at AWOG!  Gold in Sour Ales for my Berliner Weisse and Silver in Experimental for my Coffee Smoked Porter (The linked recipe plus 4oz of brewed espresso).
• Mogwai & Tortoise are coming to Buffalo in May, playing the Tralf separately.  Tortoise is on my birthday!  Woot!
• We had a dog for a few days.  It didn’t work out.
• Lots of people I know are pregnant.  Zany.
• I hung out with an old roommate I hadn’t seen in 12+ years.  I was concerned that it was going to be extremely awkward It was great.  I should give him a call sometime soon.
• Bikes bikes bikes.

- me