I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. May the joys and blessings of the season be with you today and all year. Despite the commercialization and secularizing of the holiday, the true reason we celebrate this joyful time is eternal.Birthplace of Jesus,…

I was one of the few folks in the office on Christmas Eve, so I decided to take a lunchtime excursion to the indoor range. Arriving at the range, just a few of the lanes were occupied, but I ended up near a lane being shared by three “youths.”It’s not …

We went down to Capital Ale House for dinner and a beer or two last Friday. Due to the crowds, we were seated in the dining area instead of taking our preferred bar seats. The table servers are generally clueless about what’s on tap, especially with re…

So the first weekend of Winter turns out to be more like Spring; warm and raining. Most of the weekend was filled with Christmas preparations. Sunday was especially filled; Mass, last minute gift buying, shopping for beer, hauling in the tree, stringin…

This looks like fun.With enough “tuned” steel, and enough ammo, one could have a whole concert!
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After my final evening working the conference, a coworker and I walked over to one of DC’s oldest beer bars, The Big Hunt, for an early dinner. By this time in my week, I was on the verge of exhaustion, but I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to v…

I spent the past week ensconced in a Washington, DC hotel for a conference, with little time to get out and about. I was however, within walking distance of two “infamous” DC beer bars, and I did manage to squeeze in trip to both. The first of the stop…

After our enjoyable evening at Capital Ale House, Colleen and I returned home last Friday and realized we had almost missed our traditional drink of Samichlaus Bier on the Feast of St. Nicholas. The beer’s name means “Santa Claus” in the Swiss-German d…

Each month Capital Ale House taps a special beer that’s been aged for the past year. The December “Ales From the Crypt” selection was Stone Brewing 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale. It seemed as good a reason as any for an evening out. I don’t recall th…

For your entertainment, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise, and his rendition of Let It Snow…
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