so, i’m trying an offline blogging tool again. i’ve recently purchased TextMate – a really great code editor for Mac OS X.
it turns out TextMate has a “Blogging” bundle that i can use to push new posts to my blogs. all b’zillion of them. let’s see if it works — if you’re reading this, welcome to a brave new world (again).
so, today ended up being mostly dedicated to beer. we started in the morning, formulating recipes for a Lager, and an Amber that’s mostly based on a clone recipe from McNeil’s Brewery in Vermont. today we brewed the Lager, and i cleaned & sanitized kegs whilst we were steeping the specialty grains. the Lager will […]
something has changed here! after just a few years running the Drupal content management system, i’ve switched again. this time, to WordPress. why? because i want to be like the coolkids. no, i kid. sorta. because i don’t need Drupal. i don’t need the extensive community-supporting framework. i just need a blog, and i want […]
this past Sunday, we decided to partake in some recreation, New England style. we drove up to Mt. Washington, in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains.
the day started with bagels and a nice drive through Goffstown and Dunbarton. when we reached I-93, we were nearly run off the road several times by careless drivers from New Jersey. welcome to leaf-peeping season in New England!
was working on the new office today when i saw the mounted officers coming down the street. was enough to garner a bit of curiosity. the event? they opened the new police sub-station kitty corner across the street this afternoon.
so, i finally found (after remembering to look for) an explanation of this “manch vegas” stuff.
it doesn’t make me more of a fan. i did chuckle at the idea of “manchhattan” however. (perhaps manchalo?)
urban dictionary expands the definition to explain that manchester is full of wannabes, malls, and a barely acceptable substitute for night-life. personally, i would just call that “America.”
we’re here. the last 400-ish miles were ones that we’ve trod before. this time, was uneventful. we took our new preferred, summer-only route through vermont, and stopped, as always, at McNeil’s Brewery in Brattleboro (no website – doesn’t open until 4!).
i’ll work on a synopsis of the whole trip, but first we’ve got some household-establishing duties that require more attention.
while it sounds like a good name for a short-line railroad, Lancaster and Lackawanna simply describe where we spent most of our time today.
first, we stopped by the local Citizens Bank branch to get some notarizations for our closing documents. then we hit the nearest FedEx Kinkos to send them out. done. house should be sold!
lunch at Panera Bread before we visited with some relatives in Lackawanna.
posting this from my parents house – we made it to Lancaster on day 9. i drove all the way, i guess the familiar roads didn’t wear on me so much. i have to say, i’m kinda tired of I-90 construction in Pennsylvania by now. although, it’s much more pleasant during the day, and without cats in the vehicle.
not as much driving today. we were in nashville most of the day, waiting for my car to get done. thankfully, the hotel i randomly chose in the West End was half a mile from Centennial Park, and across the street from Blackstone Restaurant & Brewery.