Warchild by Georgetown Brewing Company

style: IPA - American

abv: 7.5

rating: A

Warchild IPA does not back off, seriously. Aggressive hop flavor and bitterness with dank notes of tropical fruit, pine, concord grape, straw and green pepper are the key markers for this ripped bodied brew.

Rainbows & Unicorns by Breakside Brewery

style: IPA Session / Indian Session Ale

ABV: 5.2

Rating: B+

Notes: A session IPA originally made for the Oregon Brewers Fest; brewed with flaked rice to create as light bodied a beer as possible with juicy, tropical, and fruity hop flavors, alongside notes of peach, honeydew, apricot and pineapple. Tropical summery goodness. You are all in for a magical ride!

Good people drink good beer

― Hunter S. Thompson

Hop Diggity by Mother Earth Brewing Company

STYLE: IPA - Imperial / Double

ABV: 8.2%

IBU: 113

Rating: A

I often wonder how other bloggers organize their posts. Do you categorize and tag everything? Is it by year, context, blog site (if you have multiple sites)? Is it worth organizing at all? I often debate about my own organization, if any.

Here’s how my Ulysses looks at the moment;

Organization is minimal, as you can see. Actually, it is almost none existent. I dabble between the same two categories, Inbox and Graz/mL. It should be obvious right. Anything in the inbox is what I am working on. Sometimes even things in the inbox had already been published, but I am lazy, and they can spend days in there until I move them. I have recently created a ‘’Hey’’ one for things published in Hey World, but that’s about it.

‘Shorties’ is supposed to have anything that is 280 character or less, or at least that was the idea. Beer Log, as the name suggests, it’s supposed to have beer related posts but, honestly, I haven’t moved anything into it in a long while.

In other words, everything ends up in Gaby/mL, no tags whatsoever, once its published it just stays in there. And this is now that I am using Ulysses as my main editor. When I was using Drafts, my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ action would delete the post after publishing.

Maybe I should be more organized? Does it matter, though?

A few weeks ago I had my annual physical examination with also included some blood work. Upon visiting my primary physician it turned out that I am not quite dying — yet. Still and most definitely far from perfect but still, I’ll live. There was one thing that he found abnormal, something related to my cholesterol not the kind of problem that would necessarily cause a heart attack, but it can still be an issue.

He asked me to get a second round of blood work just to make sure. There’s always the possibility of a bad lab work. But if it was indeed high thenI would have to be under medication. Which, truthfully, I don’t want to do, I already have to medicate myself once a day and I don’t want to add yet another pill to my day. I know, like my dad, he takes like six different medications a day for various reasons, so one pill is nothing. Still, I don’t like pills.

I asked what could I to remedy the problem or prevent it from getting worse? In the back of my head I already knew the answer, though. He said, exercise and diet. Carbs and complex sugars are my biggest enemies. In my case, this means beer 😅

Today I got a called, regarding my second round, and it came back, not perfect, but I won’t need medication. The Doctor advised to up my exercise and work on my diet.

Ever since the pandemic, I have gone out of control. To make it even worse, I have barely been keeping up with my exercise routine. I haven’t been to a gym in a year or so. I have stopped working out at home or going for walks/runs.

I need to get serious and make serious changes. I am not as heavy as I’ve ever been, but I am getting there. Lower back problems are coming back too. I need to figure something out, need to incorporate some kind of routine with many new work schedule and cut out the breed (read beer).

• M: Too many free radicals. That’s your problem.

• James Bond: “Free radicals”, sir?
• M: Yes. They’re toxins that destroy the body and the brain, caused by eating too much red meat and white bread. Too many dry martinis!
• James Bond: Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir.

EDWARD FOX — M

SIR SEAN CONNERY — James Bond

“Never Say Never Again”

Today we had a very Puerto Rican menu.

Rice and beans (with olives)

Bistec encebollado

With, tostones 😍, not fried though, oven baked, gotta keep it as healthy as possible 😅

Just missing some Puerto Rican beer and a flan 🍮

I’m the mists of the pandemic, and once local restaurants started opening again for dine-in, we would every once in a while go to our local food and beer dispensary (as I call it). They would be following all the social distancing guidelines and practices. The place felt safe to go, employees would be wearing masks at all times and again, following protocol.

I am not sure what changed but the last time we went, employees weren’t required to wear masks anymore. It felt weird, it felt like they aren’t caring anymore, as if we were back to normal. Yes, cases here in Boise are coming down and more and more people are getting vaccinated. Yet, I don’t think we are quite there yet. Or maybe is me being too paranoid still?

Whether we are being paranoid or not, we no longer feel safe going there. Which it’s sad because it’s a nice local place and very convenient for us since it’s about 2 minutes drive.