Realm: Various - Subrealm: Weekend update

Spent much of Saturday working on a Habitat for Humanity project. Things I learned:

* The fact that people say they will be showing up does not mean they actually will.

* When they say that a workday is going to be held "at the warehouse", this does not mean in the warehouse.

* Nor do they provide workgloves.

* Holding a hammer while wearing your heavy-duty snow gloves, and not doing so, are both (in different ways) really hard on the hands.

* Not thinking about hitting the nail requires a great deal of thought.

* Both members of the couple who are going to be moving into the house are much better at this than I am.

* What a jack (in modern framing) is.


Sunday afternoon was spent at the Connecticut Real Ale festival, with Adam and straussmonster. Despite the smaller-sized glasses this year, we all got... we all drank a lot of beer. Sadly, the best beer of the day (IMHO) was "Apathy's Reward", a beer brewed without a recipe (and hence less likely to be repeated), and sold only in a restaurant in Nashua, NH. sigh. Well, I'll know where to eat if I'm in Nashua. Maybe I should ask for the recipe...
Anyway, I told them I appreciated their brewing philosophy; and we all had lots of great conversations with the beer expert from the Wine Thief, the English gentleman who'd brought the bunch of brown ale he HADN'T added orange peel to, and the guy planning to retire from commercial brewing and start a farm/brewery in Effingham, ME. (On the way to Ossipee, for those who have been to, or heard about, the family cabin-on-a-lake.) Fun, though again we wished there'd been a little more variety in beer type: everyone seems to have brought IPA's this year.

Today: Yes, I'm still at work. And posting this from work. sigh...