I met up with a couple of old colleagues and friends today. Firstly I had lunch with SteveT as due to me having to work all hours last week and he having to help Aliya outfit her school room, so we couldn't do dinner. It was great to catch up as it's been more than a couple of years since we saw each other last. In the evening I met up with RogerB, whom I haven't seen for about seven years, and his other half. Everyone will be pleased to hear that he hasn't changed a bit, except he evidently eat vegetables now. It was really great to see them both again, I just hope it wont be so long till next time.
So I'm currently staying in the heart of Silicon Valley in the US, North Sunnyvale to be precise. It's pretty grim I have to say, it's like living in the middle of a large industrial estate. There's nothing of significance within walking distance of the hotel and I've been working all hours for the last week to help out with a deadline that was supposed to be for this morning.
So instead of working sixteen hour days and eating take-a-ways for dinner and wondering what the nightlife is like here, I decided to go out for dinner. I headed for downtown Mountain View and Castro Street, where I'd been told there was plenty of restaurants to choose from. I ended up in a Thai place that had a veggie menu, it was nice if unspectacular.
I then popped round the corner to the Tied House Café & Brewery where I partook of a some ale. In particular their Amber and their Oatmeal Stout. The Amber was nice, the Oatmeal Stout had too much roasted malt in it and for me wasn't smooth enough. If I'm ever back this way, I'll go back and sample some of their other beers that's for sure.
So I come to the conclusion that this blog is pretty well dead. Karen has been badgering me for weeks to get on Facebook, which I wont be doing, just out of principle. I'm definitely going to change over to using WordPress and I think I'll only write occasionally about beer. It's the subject closest to my heart and I wouldn't mind starting to home brew again, so that's what I've decided to talk about.
