Yesterday was the Michigan Winter Beer Festival, which was definitely held in winter-like weather at the parking lot next to Fifth Third Ballpark. Plans to go only came together in the last week, because tickets sold out in January, so I was elated to walk in with a complimentary ticket and a DD to take …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Promoted
I got a promotion today. Sort of. So did everyone else. All of the engineers in our department got switched to salaried positions, whereas before we were paid hourly. This included a pay raise to compensate for the fact that we wouldn’t be getting time-and-a-half pay for working all those overtime hours anymore, and new …
My Guaranteed* Weight Loss Plan
(*or your money back) Not a day goes by where I’m not painfully reminded of the slipping collective health of our nation, and so after thumbing through another diet book someone was reading to see what kind of advice was actually included, I thought I could do a better job in one post than in …
Feeling Belgian
Beer. Frites. Bikes. I can’t stop thinking about Belgium. It started last week with the details of the route for this year’s Ronde Van Vlaanderen getting released. The spring classics seem tangibly close. Not that I don’t already think about cycling constantly, but the Tour of Qatar has finally given me somewhat real preseason racing …
Less color
Before the recent dumping of snow: I think some of the interestingness would be lost in black and white. I just couldn’t bring myself to take out the orange glow of the lamp. It was nice against the original blueish shadows of the snow, but it pops even more now. Meanwhile, I finally found a …