Holiday Beers

I have finally started to break out of my south Dallas shell and go to north Dallas in order to purchase beer. I have to admit that the Cedar Hill area is the worst area in order to buying beer if your taste exceeds trash such as miller light or Budweiser.By gosh I started shopping at central market in north Dallas and spent well over $100 on just beer. My new found pick-ups include Delirium Noel. While I have been putting away delirium while I was in college, the Noel came on pretty good although you could taste the alcohol in it. I was introduced to Shiner Cheer while visiting my brother in Austin and Ive been searching around for it so I picked it up as well. It's a good beer but after having 5-6 in a night, I started to get tired of it already. I was really psyched to get this beer so that was kind of a let down. What's becoming of my new fav, Sierra Nevada's Celebration Ale.
I've been in love with SN beers since I first discovered them by my older brother when he lived in Ca and before PA even carried them.Celebration has become my favorite to sink down on a nightly basis. It's got that hoppy pale ale flavor that is just about right and is prevelant in all their brews.Others that I have been dying to get are, Sammy smiths Oatmeal Stout, Delirium ale, and the Saint Sebastiaan's line of beers. I started drinking Sammy Smith's courtesy of Bowman and Russell's while on college. Man i miss that place. 100 beers either on tap or in bottle, Lord knows something like that is to die for here in Dallas. Saint Sebastiaans by Sterkins has become my favorite desert beer. Seriously, I could drown myself in Golden ale and be happy.
So my message for Christmas, forgo the gifts and excessive spending this yea and do all of us a favor, support your local micro brewery and throw down a few for me. Lord knows I will be.

St Patrick Comes Home

As you welcome me today as you did on the first day my friends… tonight, I'm coming home - Patrick Roy.

And we welcome you as well tonight Saint Patrick. Tonight was as much as forgiveness as well as remembrance and saluting your accomplishments.

WTF?

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." - Barak Obama

Just say no thanks to socialism please. McCain - Palin 2008

McCain Palin 2008

Palinize: to slander and caricature a working-class female public figure for the noble advancement of liberalism.

Store your live shows on me

I was reading a blog somewhere about someone losing their music store and i remember the feeling of what I felt when I had a 200+ gigs lost one day when I had a hard drive fail. So i got to thinking today about housing others music storage. I can house your music storage for a nominal fee for $50 a year. if I got enough offers I could upgrade to a commercial internet address. How can I do this or what skills do I have to offer for this you ask? Im a systems admin responsible for more than 6+ Tb of financial data and more than 8 SQL databases. I currently have more than 3Tb of storage at home on a Solaris array where I store my music. Send me an email about what you need to store and I can guarantee uploading your music to my array where it will never get lost. I'd like to start a live music site where you can listen to live shows from Phish, WSP and the Dead.

I salute Sarah Palin

As anyone that knows me knows I lean very heavily towards libertarians, but this year I made my choice. While I agree the we need a change in Washington. Everything needs changed. One of my biggest arguments are retroactive term limits to the house and senate. Kick out bums like uncle ted stevens and nancy pelosi. While I would have sooner John McCain pick Bobby Jindal, but that leaves the door open for a dream ticket of Thompson/Jindal ticket at a later date, Im going to vote for McCain/Palin this time. I'm not a fan of republicans due to running on a social conservative and not being conservative at all. Being an economics junkie with an accounting background, I cant support someone who is going to raise taxes on anyone, impose windfall taxes, or not support strict immigration policies. Ive had it with the democrats and I'll have no part on helping elect and all radical Lib congress with a socialist president. McCain - Palin 2008

Michael Houser RIP 1/6/62-8/10/02

Mikey know that we love you and we miss you everyday.
I miss the honest tune with a lingering lead.