There’s beer involved, surprisingly
May 29, 2008
I found myself in a culinary quandary this evening for dinner, as Hanne had to eat quickly before Dragon Boat practice, and the three closest take-out places that I frequent were all off the menu: Hanne and I got sandwiches at the grocery store so that was out, I had Greek food for lunch today so that was out, and I’m having Thai food for lunch tomorrow so that was out. I decided to head over to Barley Mile for “old time’s sake” (which isn’t really true since I still go there, just not as often), but as I crossed Belmont I thought better and came to the Green Dragon instead. After all, I have to get my money’s worth, you know? My 40-ish-odd ounce mug just gathers dust when beer isn’t flowing from it.
The Green Dragon recently changed hands and the menu was given an overhaul, so I’m looking forward to trying the new fares. The old owner is staying on as the “beer consultant” and the brewer-to-be is remaining as the, well, brewer-to-be, but I’m hoping the place gets a minor facelift as well.
Back to something dinner-related, though. On Hanne’s urging, I tried a Greek food cart that’s just a few blocks from my work today. I’ve been frequenting the food carts a few times a week minimum these days, partially because it’s cheaper than any other place, mostly because it’s just plain better. I’ve had food from two different Thai carts, two different Indian carts, the afore-mentioned Greek cart, and a place that serves soup and wraps. The gyro I had for lunch today was so good, I’d step over my own mother just to get another one. I noticed a Thai cart I’d never seen before next to it, too, so tomorrow I’ll go and try something noodley, like Pad Thai or something spicy. The current noodle champion (well, spicy noodles) is still the place a few blocks from my apartment, but I’m always on the lookout for something spicy and good for you. Well, goodish.
Work’s been going well. We’re about ready to wrap up several projects and embark on a few others, and I think I might have managed to convince my boss to combine a couple of our projects into one undertaking, which raises the complications that can arise, but it’ll work out better in the end. My end goal is to reduce the number of servers we have, and with this new project I’m happy to report that while we’ll pick up another server, we’ll get rid of three that we currently have that desperately need to be retired. A net loss of two servers would be great. Another one could be retired if we moved a piece of software off it and onto another server. If this project works out, I can see us retiring several more servers next year with just he purchase of one additional server. My end goal is to get us down to single digits in hardware, and I think it’s doable within a year or so, pending other things that may come up, of course.
I’ve been doing a lot of work on my website gallery, which was sorely lacking the attention it deserved. I’ve manged to throw about five or six new albums on it of pictures I’d been slacking off updating, and I think it’s looking pretty good. I still need to move over all my college pictures, my cross-country trip pictures, and a couple of other miscellaneous things, but it’s about 85% complete. You can find it at http://gallery.technodevil.com, and it stretches back to…well, 2002 or so now, but it’ll go back to 1999 when it’s done.
Not sure what else to mention. It’s 6:25 PM and I’ drinking good beer, so I might just leave it there.
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