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Making Christmas

One of my greatest joys in life is working in the kitchen.  I think it takes a man to say that, unafraid of the social mores of ignoring football on Sunday.  I don’t give a rat’s ass what the San

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Dain-juh Zone!

Do you like to take risks?  Does your idea of “fun” involve throwing your body around with expensive pieces of sports equipment strapped to you?  When you see a ten-story carnival ride called “Death Plummet” made of rusty metal and

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Down in Front!

Ahh, Christmas.  The season of togetherness, giving, warm feelings and…hey, sit down in front.  Sit down.  Sit down!  SIT DOWN! Every year at our preschool we go to see our kids in the Christmas pageant.  It has become tradition, as

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Darkness in a Bottle

Ooh, I like the title of this post, it sounds like a noir film.  But really it’s all about very, very dark stout all bottled up.  As I bottled this I had a taste and I think this is going

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Border Crossings, Beers, and Giant Meat Cylinders

Boy are things changing in Mexico!  Here in San Diego the craft food and beer scene is heating up and stimulating the foodie culture south of the border in Tijuana.  Craft breweries are popping up, stylish high-quality eateries, and places

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There’s Dark Beer and there’s DARK BEER

Holy crap!  I’ve somehow made a black hole in the beer closet!  This isn’t just any dark beer, it’s chocolate cream stout.  Somewhere in that square fermenter is a bag of cocoa nibs, some cocoa-soaked rum, and vanilla extract.  But

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Exploring

The longest distance between two points is the path taken by children.  This is how boring I am as a parent:  I don’t want to fall in the mud.  I don’t want to sit on a tree covered with fire

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Joke Time

Knock Knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana who? Banana. Banana WHO? Orange. ORANGE WHO? Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? Now that’s a horrible joke.  These are the kinds of jokes you’d find in the back of Boy’s Life magazine,

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A Sense of Scale

I think I’ve gotten used to being tall.  When you are over six feet, as I am just barely, you realize the world is made for people 6-8″ shorter.  Working at a counter means hunching over like Quasimodo.  Getting anything

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Chickens are Baffling

I don’t know why chickens do the things they do.  And with their tiny pea-sized brains, I doubt they do either.  For the last few weeks the chickens have been shunning their coop and roosting on top of it, crammed

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