Monday, August 24, 2015

Good morning crew,

Munster, Indiana and the excursion to the Three Floyds brewery turned out pretty much as expected, except for a few, small delays.

I wanted to get there nice and early at 11 or 11:30 in order to avoid the transients and local inebriates. Unfortunately, the wife wasn't feeling very well when the alarm went off at 8:30 in the morning so she decided to sleep in a bit.

Three-and-a-half hours, two cups of coffee, a few 'quick' updates on social media, and one dog walk later we finally rolled out of the house.

Predictably, by the time we got there after noon the place was packed. A guy standing inside the front door told us we had at least a 45 minute wait to be seated.

That threw me a bit. Usually you don't have to wait to be seated in a bar, but with no other option we got back in the truck and went to have a few drinks at a place down the street while we were waiting to drink beer.

It wasn't until 1:30 in the afternoon that we were ushered to a couple of stools at the bar. I have to admit, the beer was pretty good, but we were expecting that. I was a little surprised that they also had a very decent selection of food. We ordered a cheese plate to snack on in between beverages and they brought out a selection of local cheeses which were all delicious, plus housemade bread, carrot jam, candied pecans and local honey. That's not something you normally get in your local watering hole. It was the perfect thing to complement the thick, heady IPAs we were drinking.

So, by the time we left the place late in the afternoon my mood was much improved. In fact, I didn't even lose my mind when I got on the wrong express way on the way home and ended up driving about 15 miles out of my way.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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The best illustration of the value of brief speech was given by Mark Twain.

His story was that when he had listened for five minutes to the preacher telling of the heathen, he wept, and was going to contribute fifty dollars... after ten minutes more of the sermon, he reduced the amount of his prospective contribution to twenty-five dollars...after a half hour more of eloquence, he cut the sum to five dollars.

At the end of an hour of oratory when the plate was passed, he stole two dollars.


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At the end of my factory shift, I was asked to purchase some supplies. The machines' conveyor belts needed talcum powder to prevent them from sticking, and we had run out of aspirin for workers with noise-induced tension headaches.

I drove to the nearest store and loaded a shopping cart with four cases of baby powder and several boxes of aspirin. As the man behind me in the checkout line peered at my purchases, he laughed and exclaimed, "Must be one heck of a kid!"