If my planning was better I would not have to leave the house today for anything other than work.  I do not need anything for Christmas gifts, but I do need some things for the house.  I should have known better than to put off getting dog food and such because now I will be battling the last minute Christmas gift shoppers when I could have avoided it.

Getting on with it . . .

elysian nibiru If The End Is Near

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Though we were able to get our Christmas packages mailed out to family and friends on Monday it really just hit me yesterday that Christmas is actually next Sunday.  Of course that means that the beginning of 2012 is closer than I thought as well.  Anyway, thanks to The Mother-in-law and my friend Gerard for passing along some good stuff this week.

Positive news all around . . .

sn cans 575 Shiny Green Cans

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After getting the more negative reminiscing out of the way last week (starting last Monday), this week I will take a look back at a handful (or more) of beers that I have fond memories of or that I would really like to revisit.  It really didn’t take much time to pick out the ones for this week either.  I am sure that there are a few that I missed and that probably belong in one of these posts, but they will just be for another look back some other time.

I am going to kick of the week with a beer that I often think of as one of the beers that opened my eyes a bit wider to the world of craft beer.  It wasn’t the only one and not necessarily my favorite of the beers I tried early on, but for some reason I remember it and where I bought it after first moving to Florida.

I am pretty certain that I have not had this beer since doing this review quite a long time ago.  Maybe it is time to pick up a six-pack just because.  Click on the photo below to see what I thought of it on that day . . .

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