Bitter-Sweet

After exactly two years of working for Phillips Architecture here in Raleigh, I'm moving on. I have made so many great friends there and loved my work very much, but an opportunity came up at MI Homes that I could not pass up. So now, instead of Commercial buildings, I'll be working on residential homes.

Here's to good friends and a smooth transition.

Cheers. [clink]

The Flying Saucer

Today, I became a member of the Flying Saucer's UFO Club.

My first beer was a Breckenridge Vanilla Porter on tap. It's listed as "an ale that has all the chocolate and roasted flavor of a classic Porter with an enigmatic surprise thrown in for good measure, real vanilla bean. Smooth, roasted and chocolate with a creamy vanilla finish."

Very interesting. I'm not a Porter-guy, but it wasn't bad.

One down, one hundred ninety-nine to go. Ah, an explaination is in order...

The Flying Saucer is a bar in downtown Raleigh. There are ten other Flying Saucer locations scattered throughout the U.S. as well. They have over 200 beers in house from all over the world. Some friends and I went there a month or so ago and sampled about 20 beers alone. We ordered a Ireland sampler, a UK sampler and a North Carolina sampler. Each sampler plate had 8 large shot glasses of different beers from that area. Needless to say, that was a very good night.

One of the cool things about the place is that the walls are absolutely plastered with gold plates (they look like drum cymbals). If members of the UFO Club drink 200 different beers, you get your name on a plate which is mounted on the wall and they give you a free $100 bar tab for the night to celebrate.

So, as I said earlier... one down, one hundred ninety-nine to go.

Action Shot

I just got this photo in the mail from my rafting trip.

I LOVE IT!

I'm sitting right in the middle and hamming it up to the camera right in the middle of a Class V.

Right before this picture was taken, we went over a five-foot drop.

Awesome!

Kid's School Pictures