About Me

I'm a web applications developer in Chicago. This is my personal site and sandbox where I play around with web technology and even occasionally 'blog.' When I'm not at work you can probably find me at the gym, noodling on a guitar, or enjoying a fine beer.

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Beer

November 18th, 2010

The new beer is delicious! 4th time's a charm I guess. I opened up the first one last weekend after two weeks conditioning in the bottle. Ideally the batch should condition for three weeks or so, but I was surprised at how well it had turned out. Should be a fun weekend coming up!

I'm not at all looking forward to experiencing the TSA's new 'enhanced' security at O'Hare. Up until now I'd been able to opt out of the naked scanners with only a cursory pat-down. We'll see how it goes. I'm only flying out of Midway in the future.

Can you remember?

March 3rd, 2010

No, I haven't forgotten about this thing. I made this site so easy to add to, and of course I don't....

The winter is (hopefully) winding down, I'm on my second batch of home-brewed beer, and I've been remarkably busy at work. All good things I guess. At some point I turned 27. Anyway, blogs are mostly stupid, so I'm out for now.

Moving

August 27th, 2009

As we waited for our turns to play ping-pong at lunch yesterday, I asked a colleague from accounting if there was anything worse than moving. He said, "Prison." Maybe our society could reduce the recidivism rate by adding the moving of heavy sofas up and down several flights of stairs to the prisoners' daily regimen.

To put it simply, moving stinks. Luckily, with some help and an appropriate vehicle or two, the hardest parts of moving can be completed in half a day. At least that's what I'm hoping. I don't mind boxing up my things or unpacking them. I can almost derive a certain enjoyment from organizing a new living space (which there will be even more of, this time around). But making those 100 trips up and down stairs burdened with boxes and furniture and whatever else is easily the least enjoyable thing I can imagine.

Alas, I'm one of those people who sustains himself on his own negativity. If I can imagine everything that could possibly go wrong, I can prepare myself for its inevitability: Murphy's Law made productive. Hmm, I wonder if old Murphy is free on Saturday.