October 03, 2022

Good morning crew,

The wife and I have set a new record... this past Saturday we made it to our sixth Oktoberfest of the season. Three years ago we made it to an impressive five and I really thought that record would stand, but I underestimated my own capacity for over-indulgence.

We did cheat a little bit. Weekend before last we went to a fest that did not feature any good German fest music, so after one beer and a brat we abandoned it for another one that had an authentic 'oom pah' band, but we still credited ourselves with 2 fests.

Now the wife is talking crazy. She found a bar that is having yet another fest next weekend! Although at this point we are well out of fest season. I'm really not sure it should even count. You can serve gutes deutsches bier and bratwurts in December, but that doesn't make it an Oktoberfest.

Other than that we spent a harrowing couple of days decorating for Halloween. I came up with what I thought was a very clever idea, but the execution was a lot harder... and more dangerous than I anticipated.

I'll tell you about that next time.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gopher-news.com

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