sorry for the late update…tonight’s round two will be about famous puppets.  also, big thanks to everyone for the well wishes, gifts, and drunken carousing at events surrounding my birthday.  it’s great to have such a great group of friends.

on another trivia night note, there is some debate as to whether we’ll have it over the next 2 weeks, what with next week being the duke/unc game (at 9 pm) and the week after being valentine’s day.

thoughts?

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ok, so tomorrow night will have lots of cheesy yet freakin awesome music.  no big clues or genres, but it should be really easy.

most of you should know by now that i have a birthday party coming up on friday. if you need details, shoot me an email and i can hook you up. should be a good time.

tomorrow night’s round 2 will be some form of audio round, but as of yet, i haven’t done the samples, so i can’t really give you anything else. suffice to say, it will be good. not necessarily hard, just good.

the at&t job continues to go well, it’s really not that different from when i left, so other than procedural questions every now and then, i feel like i’m still pretty on top of my game.

sorry for the late notice, but tonight’s round 2 will be ethnic food.

with my birthday only a month after christmas, i always feel a little weird posting the birthday wish list, but some people ask for it, so there you go (notice that it looks very similar to the christmas list):

-donations in my name to coffee kids, grounds for health (via justgive.org) , or heifer international are super nice and much appreciated by myself and the recipients. (it’s like 2 gifts in one!)

-i’ve updated my amazon wish list, just over there, to your right…

-a few games make the list: ca$h’n gun$, diamant, medici vs. strozzi, destination tresor, and mission: red planet

so now that i’m not working for counter culture anymore, i’ve actually had to make some coffee investments.  it used to be that i could just go in to work, grind up a nice little press and suck it down.  or make some nice shots of espresso, or a capp, or really just about anything.  but now tat i’m in the corporate world, it’s all commercial coffee and 25 cent vended coffee.  yes.  25 cents.  and yes.  it is fucking disgusting.

so i bought a travel mug last week vowed to take in coffee from a french press.  which worked out ok.  sort of.  since our house still has pipes from when it was originally built n the 40’s, i felt remiss about trying to wash grounds down the sink (we don’t have a disposal), so i was just tossing them away  (we don’t have a compost heap because frankly, i’m too lazy to use compost…hell, i’m too lazy to garden.) after filtering them through a paper towel.  it was pretty messy, and definitely inconvenient if i wanted to utilize my extra sleep time that corporate america affords me over crack of dawn coffee.

add to that the fact that the travel mug i bought was an utter piece of shit, and my coffee experience wasn’t nearly what i was hoping for. 

so today i took a plunge and bought one of the really nice timolino mugs from 3 cups.  pricey, yes, but they are super sleek and stylish.  just like me.  and they were nice enough to toss in a fill up of some png red mountain. 

after that, i went to a southern season (ass) and picked up a melitta pot.  since i lost a chemex in a breakup, i’ve been wanting to replace it, but frankly, i’ve always enjoyed the covenience of the cleanup of the melitta over the chemex, and the quality of the coffee i think can be very good out of both, when made properly.

so now i’m geared up and reay for monday morning to roll round so that i can enjoy some delicious brew.

the article I wrote for Roast magazine is now online if anyone is interested in reading it….it’s a bit coffee geeky for people who don’t drink a lot of espresso, but still you migt enjoy it.

hope everyone had a nicer new years than i did (i threw up…and not because of drinking…just because i was sick.). 

i’ve been listening to a lot of jazz lately, from early stuff to modern, and so tomorrow night’s round 2 will be all about jazz musicians.

also, thanks to all of you who that have wished me luck with the new job. things thus far have been good, and i feel like i’ve been doing well keeping up with peeps at counter culture.

and lastly, you should know that either friday the 26th or saturday the 27th will be a kick ass shindig at my house to celebrate my birthday. the exact date has yet to be determined, but soon things will be finalized and you can all come and revel in the glory of my aging.