i think this is probably the only mustache-themed icon i have on here, and it’s fitting that it’s used today for freddie mercury’s 65th birthday.
for the past few days i had been talking online with this girl, and we met up for coffee yesterday. she was definitely a much more interesting person online than in person; she’s interested in the sciences, thinking about going for her phd in physics or astronomy, going whitewater rafting today and learning to fly an airplane next week. but, in person, she just seemed dull. that’s not to say that we didn’t have a nice 2-hour conversation, but she just seemed boring in person.
protip: when you suggest someone call you to schedule a time to get coffee, try to sound enthusiastic. maybe have a place to meet in mind?
also, protip: if you’re meeting with someone, and you keep yawning, it’s very disconcerting. at least excuse yourself for yawning. 😛
also also, protip: don’t do a lot of talking about finding things to do with singles groups or researching singles cruises, et cetera. it makes you seem pretty desperate, and makes me suspicious.
so, except for the bad vibes i got from that, and that she was a lot shorter than i would have preferred – lump me in with randy newman here…
…but i like my women like my coffee: tall (which is technically a smaller size, so there goes that joke… in any case, i’m 5’10”, so while i can overlook [ha!] height differences it’s still going to be a distraction to me) – while she seemed nice enough, i don’t think i’ll be trying to see her again. i say “trying” because it turns out that she lives in the same apartment complex as zenmetsu, and i go there on a regular basis, and it’s not like my car isn’t distinctive what with it being a MINI with a UMBC window cling on the back. so, that’s awkward.
saturday i went to the dc brau brewery – it just opened up earlier this year (for some reason i thought that it had opened a year or two earlier, but i guess time flies when you’re getting drunk), and for a while they weren’t able to offer tours or tastings at their brewery. well, they petitioned the dc city council to pass a special law to allow breweries in the city to allow tastings at the brewery. i should really update the wikipedia page with that info.
anyway, they came out with a special limited-time beer called “el hefe speaks”, a hefeweizen beer, and while it was available at some bars around town i figured that since they offer free tours and cheap growler fills on saturdays, and since i wasn’t doing anything in particular at that moment, and that the brewery is only a 10-minute car ride from my apartment (seriously! i live 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM A BREWERY! 20 MINUTES AWAY IF I HAD A BIKE AND WANTED TO RIDE IT THERE! HOW IS THIS NOT AWESOME!?), and that they have free tastings, well, free tour + free tastings at the brewery > no tour + paying for beer at a bar.
so, i went on their little 20-minute tour – it was the first time i had been in a brewery since touring some in portland with homodachi, and at one part the guy leading the tour mentioned how they can use volunteers. afterwards i got to thinking, and i was talking with one of the two guys who started the brewery about their need for volunteers and how i enjoyed visiting the breweries in portland and how it just got me thinking how people get started working in breweries. he said that generally they can really use the help on fridays when they do their canning since they need people to ring 6-packs of beer together. it’s not paid work, but they do give the volunteers free beer off the canning line, and since i’m trying to find things to do to keep me occupied and get me out of the apartment more i signed up as a potential volunteer. so, who knows, that 6-pack of dc brau you might buy may just have been ringed by killer glennuine draft. i also bought myself a 64 oz growler of el hefe speaks while i was there as i really enjoyed the taste of it. now i just have to drink a 64 oz growler of beer before it goes bad. such a hard life!
now to figure out what to do with the rest of my labor day.