Apr11

She Found a Beer She Likes

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She Found a Beer She Likes

On Saturday, Wife and I rode down to the Lafayette Hotel to enjoy the Citybeat Festival of Beer. With our small cups we enjoyed the beautiful weather (the rain never came) and chatting with our friends.

Wife was a great sport and tried multiple beers. I started her off with a light hefeweizen (women like the wheat beer), she tried it and sadly was not too impressed. However, with Liz’s help, Wife tried the Maui Brewing Company’s Mana Wheat and actually liked it. I think the infused pineapple helped.

She later had a cider (once we found it) and did not fall in love. She said that the beer made the cider too sweet for her. The same thing happened years before with wine.

For me, my personal favorite came from Knee Deep Brewing. Their Tanilla Porter tasted great. It had the thickness of a stout (which I am not that big a fan of) with a slight coffee flavor and a nice sweet vanilla aftertaste. Someone commented that it tasted like a milkshake.

Apr7

Need a Puppy In Your Life?

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Need a Puppy In Your Life?

A Chihuahua for You!

Are you in need of a puppy/dog in your life? Then do I have the one for you.

A month ago, Wife found a puppy with a blue bandana wandering the streets. She picked him up, brought him home, and named him Blue. He slept calmly through the night. The next day, I dropped him off at the Central County Shelter with hope that he would be found and brought home.

While here, he was a little shy but began to warm up with us and Killian as he became more comfortable. He slept through the night without making much of a sound.

Sadly, a month has passed and he his still there. Unfortunately, most of the rescues are so full that they cannot take him. We are hoping that someone out there wants a puppy and that Blue is right for you!

He is at the Central County Shelter under the name Harry (I know, it is a horrible name). If you or someone you know is interested, please let me know. Wife and I would love to see him go to a very happy home.

Apr2

The Big Bland Night Out

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The Big Bland Night Out

Last night, Wife’s sister Diana and brother-in-law Don-Lee (with a rare Friday night off) made the long drive from Murrieta (just north of Temecula) to visit and enjoy the nightlife of Normal Heights (@normalheights). The first stop was…you guessed it, the Blind Lady Ale House (@blindladyale).

Don-Lee and I attempted the Blind Lady’s Annual Big Bland Blind Taste Challenge. For the price of a 48 pack of Natural Ice ($7.20) and the chance to win a $100 gift card to the Blind Lady, the bartender poured us 6 small unmarked glasses of the following award-winning beers: Bud Lite, Coors Lite, Miller Lite, Miller High Life, Pacifico, and 1-Year-Aged PBR. Below in the pictures you can see our correct guesses (well we don’t know yet, but feel really good about them).

After Blind Lady’s last call, we enjoyed great tacos from Corner Market (no, really, they are good, cheap, and the perfect night out food). Then walked down to the Triple Crown and imbibed another round. To finish of the night, Don-Lee and I engaged in the age-old Irish tradition of Car Bombs with some country-rock at the Ould Sod.

I will say it again, living within walking distance of great food and multiple watering holes is awesome. Now we will wait for the Annual Adams Avenue Pub Crawl (@adamsavpubcrawl) this summer.

[Update] Man, we were way off. Here’s the order of the beers in the Big Bland Blind Tasting Challenge flight (you can see ours in the pictures below):

  1. Miller High Life
  2. Bud Light
  3. 1-yr-old PBR
  4. Coors Light
  5. Miller Lite
  6. Pacifico

Mar11

A Mercury 7 and Me

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A Mercury 7 and Me

Scott Carpenter (right) and I (Right)

While cleaning out the computer at work I came across this photo and I am pretty sure I did not post it yet. That is me hanging with the Mercury 7 astronaut, Scott Carpenter. This was taken years ago and you can tell by my extreme hairstyle.

Mar7

Four and a Half Years of Awesome

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Four and a Half Years of Awesome

 

For the past (over) four and-a-half years, I have had an awesome job that allowed me to teach kids about flight and space, meet/hang out with people like the first and last men to walk on the moon (along with many before, between, and after), and run the social media outreach for a cultural institution.

As I just mentioned, working at the San Diego Air & Space Museum allowed me to meet astronauts, such as Wally Schirra (the first astronaut I ever met, I brought him coffee), Scott Carpenter, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Eugene Cernan, Al Worden (here and here), Bill Anders, Franks Borman, James Lovell; movie stars like Harrison Ford; and so many many more.

During this same time of meeting celebrities, I built up the social media outreach for the Museum. I started by opening a Twitter account (@SDASM) for the Museum during the first special exhibition, Star Trek: The Exhibition (see some videos here, here, and here). The YouTube page, Facebook page, WordPress blog, Flickr page, and Tumblr quickly followed. I started the first social media outreach in Balboa Park (@balboapark) and let it grow.

Thanks to the opportunities the Museum offered me, I have procured a position at the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau as the Interactive Editor. I will be able to take my “part-time” job of social media coordinator at the Museum and turn in into a full-time position.

After leaving the Museum, I will definitely miss the my colleagues, the fun I had, and the people I have met. However, I look forward to my new position and the possibilities that it will offer me. The past four-and-a-half years have led me this new job and for that I am grateful.

Three Cheers for SDASM!!! (Sorry, on a 18th century naval kick)

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