The ‘I Haven’t Blogged In A While…’ Post

In honor of not blogging, here’s a picture from before XMas. Picking out the tree.

I feel like with every outdated blog I go to, I read the same thing: I haven’t blogged in a while. Sorry.

Well, given that I haven’t blogged in a while, and still have five weeks of grad school remaining, work (in which I spend 8+ hrs a day posting to what is essentially a beefed up blog), a wife to please, a small child to chase around, yard work, house work, etc., I might as well add the “I haven’t blogged in a while…” quote to my page.

I love what I do for work, but it’ll be interesting to see if I can rekindle my passion for hobby writing once I have a bit more free time.

When I Get To Have Fun At Work: Local Craft Beer Edition

Fact: It’s okay to drink beer from a blue plastic Solo cup — as long as it’s craft beer.

I’m fortunate enough with my job to be able to embrace some of my hobbies – like drinking craft beer.

I recently wrote a post titled Local Beers You Haven’t Heard of (Yet).

The list includes:
Jack’s Abby
Wormtown Brewery
Idle Hands Craft Ales
Night Shift Brewing
Backlash
Slumbrew

and others… Feel free to take a read the full post at CBS Boston.

Maybe Some Day…

Trapped in the depths of writing a thesis for my masters degree, I realize I have done a terrible job updating this page for the 3 people who frequent it. Perhaps some day, I’ll be able to return to enjoying writing… until then, onward and upward with the thesis.

Song Of The Day: Lakehouse

I enjoy songs where there’s an internal battle going on. This one – by Of Monsters & Men – strikes me as one.
I included the lyrics.

Oh, I miss the comfort of this house.
Where we are, where we are.
Where we are, where we are.
The floor under our feet whispers out,
“come on in, come on in, where it all begins.”

The tallest man I’ve ever seen afloat,
On a boat, on a boat.
On a boat, on a boat.
He keeps his only son close by.
In a bag, in a bag.
In a bag on his back.

Can you chase this fire away,

We climbed up to the top in worn out shoes,
But she ran down, she ran down.
She ran down to the house.
A fox that gains our trust but then breaks it as he walks
Away from us, away from us.

Can you chase this fire away.
In the fall we sleep all day.

Where we are.

Random Musings & The Song Of The Day

Yikes. No updates since before vacation on this thing? Apologies to the 3 people who are counting on me. Honestly, I’ve been doing the unthinkable – reading a book. I know! Anyway, I should have a great southern Maine vacation post coming before I’m too busy to update this until Christmas.

For now, In honor of all the books I’ve been reading lately, let’s make the song of the day a literary reference:

Song of the Day: Young The Giant – Cough Syrup

Good song. Great skeevy mustache & hair. Big fan of the synchronized swimming.

Song of the Day: Muse – Sing For Absolution