I just realized I haven’t posted anything in almost a year. I’ll try and rectify that this week!
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We didn’t make it out of town this weekend to ski, but we managed to get a nice walk in up in the Council Crest area. The trail was beautiful with the frosty covering.
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Well, I didn’t make it through a month of biking to work. Rather ironically I fell off my bike just after my original post. I was going a bit too fast around a corner and went down hard.
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This month is Bike to Work month, and a good time for me to get back into commuting to work by bike. I’ve biked several times already over the last couple of months, but I’m going to try ride in more often.
I’ve started keeping a log of my miles, once a week I’ll post them in an entry like the one below:
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Seeing as we spend a great deal of time trying different pubs around the Northwest, and beyond, I thought it was time to start writing up some posts on our experiences.
The Brew Therapy website will be where they will be published. Over the last few weeks we’ve been to and reviewed:
- Brouwers Cafe, in Seattle, with disappointment.
- Hales Brewery & Pub, in Seattle, with enjoyment
- Tap House Grill, in Seattle, with much enjoyment
- Pike Place Pub, in Seattle, with some disappointment
- Collins Pub, in Seattle, with much satisfaction
- The Elephant & Castle, in Seattle, with satisfaction
- McGlinn’s Pub, in Wenatchee, with good food & service
I’ll be trying to add reviews as we visit places, and from time to time I’ll post on pdxbrit with links to each of the posts on Brew Therapy.
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For the past eleven weeks I’ve been studying away in brewing school, a course from the American Brewers Guild. I’m about half way through the course, and have just taken my first exam. In June I’ll be spending a week Sacramento for a week of hands on experience and a final exam.
You can read all about my experiences on my Brew Therapy website by clicking this link.
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At the end of January we adopted a new member of the household, a little black and white kitten, from a friend of a friend. She had taken in a stray pregnant cat and had been looking after the litter of six kittens. We were originally going to pick up the little fella after Christmas when he was just 6-8 weeks old, but unfortunately we had to wait until tests for feline leukemia came back clear.
For the first four weeks we had him we failed to agree on a name for him, I’ve been calling him ‘Trigger’, Dude, Dave and Oi get off the table. Kari’s been calling him all sorts of names too ‘Sir Pickles’ was pretty much the worse..
After some deliberation we stuck with “The Dude”, or “El Duderino” if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
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Today Kari & I went up to the mountain to snowshoe at White River with Victor. The weather was pretty terrible, heavy rain on the way up, and was sort of sleet snowing by the time we got to White River.
This is the first time I’ve been up here in recent years and the parking lot was virtually empty. So although the weather wasn’t good it was wonderful being out in the woods for a few hours away from everyone!
No photos from this trip, but Kari & I did the same snowshoe trip in February on a absolutely stunning sunny winter day. It was so warm I had my sleeves rolled up. See the photos below.
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December 30, 2007 11:16 am
We just spent a great week up in Wenatchee with Kari’s family for Christmas. We took off early on Friday for the drive up there, and stayed through till Thursday morning. It was a busy, but also relaxing week. Not only did we manage to cross-country ski around the orchard every day, but also managed to catch up with Mike & Wendy, and Erin, Shane, Sim & Conner as well.
The weather was stunning, the company was great. Always hard to come back to Portland after spending any time up here.
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November 11, 2007 9:42 pm
A few weeks ago I got a letter from Hawaiian Air telling me my paltry 3000 miles were about to expire. A couple of days later I received another letter from a company that calls itself “Magazines for Miles”. They offered subscriptions to various magazines in exchange for my pretty worthless air miles. So I signed up for a couple of magazines - The Smithsonian & Conde Naste Traveller.
We’ve had a few magazines now, which since we’ve started receiving I now realize that we don’t have time to read. Far worse unfortunately is that “Magazines for Miles” sells your mailing information to mass marketers. We now have a steady supply of junk mail addressed to the ’special’ misspelled address I used for the mailing.
The folks who operate “Magazines for Miles” is actually a company called The Synapse Group Inc. who describe themselves as :
The leading independent provider of customer acquisition and management services for US publishers of consumer magazines.
So lets see, they acquire air miles from folks, for whatever financial reward they make out of it. Then at the same time they probably receive enormous discounts from their clients the magazine publishers for the subscriptions the saps like me just took out. On top of that they then continue to market other magazine subscriptions to us.
Anyway, that was the long version. The short version is DO NOT SIGN UP WITH MAGAZINES FOR MILES unless you want lots more junk mail. Lots more!
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