Respect

Today I received an award for a project I was part of at work. The award is a Chairman's Award of Excellence for Raytheon's Supplier Diversity Program. As in Chairman of the Board... The big one.

Halloween Pics Are Up!

Beau has the pictures from the party now posted on the Redshoe Photo Album. Head over there and check out the fun and debauchery that was had by all. This was 2 in a row now, so get ready for the 3rd. You have plenty of time to pick up a costume... I'm already working on ideas.

While you are over at Redshoe, drop Beau a line and let him know what you think about the new layout.

Loathing the Kingdom Downtime

Well my current favorite game, Kingdom of Loathing went down 2 days ago and the entire community is waiting with baited breath to see what the outcome is. Now baited breath in the sense of tension, not the kind that smells like bad fish. Since we have nothing else to do while at work, I went and tried out some of the community websites. One is The Rye's KoL player personality test. Here's my results...

Midwest BeerFest

I spent my Saturday down at Century II this week. The Midwest Beerfest was this weekend and I finally got the schedule right to get to go. There were about 240 different beers from all the major and minor distributors here in Kansas. There were all the standards and most of the kansan micro-brews. There were quite a few new beers and off the wall ones that I had never seen or tried before. Stouts are still my favorite beer and the new one for me that I thought was pretty good was the Rouge Shakespeare Stout. I had to try all the hard ciders to compare it to Beau and I's home brew cider. They were all pretty good and I think we did really good for our first time too. None of them had much carbonation. The one that stood out above the rest was Woodchuck's Granny Smith Cider. There were two surprises for me, the Anheuser World Lager (yeah, as in Anheuser-Busch... like Budweiser) was actually pretty good. It was a nice hoppy ale, kind of like a Heineken. The other surprise was the Heineken Dark. It was decent, but that was about it. I'm already a Heineken fan, so I guess I expected too much from the Dark. I was good for a free beer, but I doubt that I would spend the money for it myself. The new discovery for this year was one that I have never heard of from a brewery called Unibroue out of Canada. They have this beer called Trois Pistoles (I think it means Three Pistols in French). This is a damn good beer, but the flavor is so different I can't really describe it well. I will definitely be buying some of these in the future.

Halloween Party Time!

The time has drawn near once again for a night of frights, fun and fdrinks... Ok, the drink thing was a stretch, but you can't blame for trying.

Time to dust off the pitchforks and phalluses (don't believe me? check out the pictures from last year) and press your best spiderwebs. I'm having another Halloween party and it's going to be a blast. Get a costume, get some booze and get your ass to my place on Saturday, Oct. 29th.

Bump, Bump... Is This Thing On?

Wow. I have completely ignored this for too damn long. Time to get back in the game...

So You Think You Are Smart?

If you can build an MP3 player from scratch, then you really are pretty good. It's pretty cool little toy for not too much money. The kit is a bit expensive but if you could get all the pieces it might be worth it. However, I did get an player for myself for about half the cost, and it had a radio too. Of course, buying one doesn't get you all the geek points though...

Google Toolbar for Firefox

For all us alternate browser folks out there, Google has finally released a toolbar extension for Firefox. This was the only thing that i missed when I switched from IE. It's still a beta so use at your own risk. At least the blogger button works :) Click here to get it.

Luke's Heading to the East Side

My man Luke Hutmacher, aka Luke Skywalker, aka The Man With Mo' Balls is getting ready to leave town for a while. Evidently the company he works for thinks that he has some idea about something to do with work; so GE is sending him to Beijing China for 6 months to a year. We all got together to see him off and throw down some booze. The Halstead crew, the Hays posse and the KC crown were all in effect and we all had a good time. Candace even got lucky and got to ride in my new car ;-). Have a safe trip bro, and don't get caught by the Chinese Death Truck while you are over there.

Back For the Good Bye's

While Luke was back in town to say his good bye's, we took some time out for some wholesome family entertainment. I'm gonna steal that sign next time I'm at the movies...