Claude_Verret

Oh how I long for just one day to sleep in until 8 am again, because come 6 am tomorrow morning I'll hear my 3 year old daughter yelling "Daddy, I wake up...come play with me!!!" Those saturday morning wake up calls really hurt after having a few extra pops following a Sabres victory the night before.

I needed oxycodone for knee and eye surgeries. The knee surgery was the worst pain I ever felt in my life, I guess that can be expected when the doc drills straight through your tibia five times though. Anyway, I was popping them like crazy after that surgery and felt the wrath of the most undesirable side effect of those pills......constipation. Absolutely brutal. Moral of the story, if you can handle the pain don't take them.

Looking forward to this, especially after Breaking Bad just ended. If you aren't watching Breaking Bad you are missing what is unquestionably the best show on TV right now.

I'm very sorry to hear that, my condolences. Hang in there.

I'll have to check out the new Chickenfoot. I'm listening to the new Wilco album right now, it's their best since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot I do believe.

I've never had below the belt surgery, but I did suffer the idignity / pain of being catheterized on three ocassions before and after various surgeries. :death:

People are a-holes. I had a very similar incident happen a few years ago outside of work, except it was geese not ducks. The roads are filled with selfish a-holes who display very little concern for their own safety never mind the rest of us who need to share the road with them. :censored:

I feel for you here, it gets old really quick being laid up like that. A few years ago I was laid up after knee surgery (the five screws they drilled in remain there today), but at the same time I also had surgery for a detached retina. To keep the retina in place they put a gas bubble in my eye and to keep it properly positioned on my retina I had to lie face down 24/7 for 3 weeks. That sucked beyond words, all I could do to keep entertained was sit up and lean over face down to read a book or watch a movie positioned below me on the floor. I guess this is a retroactive complaint since that time in my life sucked so bad, but at the same time the accident that caused it probably should have killed me. Anyway, I hope you're back on your feet soon. :thumbsup:

Sorry to hear about your friend. I've had six ultimately unsuccessful eye surgeries and they are no picnic as you might imagine. Here's hoping that things begin to turn around for your friend.

That would be sweet, plus if Pegula is using the Red Wings as his model franchise the Wings rode "One Little Victory" as their intro song to the 2002 Stanley Cup.

What a fantastic game. I was in 113 right behind the Raiders bench among a sea of Raiders fans. WTF with season tix holders selling their seats to the home frigging opener??? Anyway we shut them all up at the end. The best game I've attended since the Houston comeback (yes I stayed for the entire game). GO BILLS!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW4jiJWyqQ0 Appropriate lyrics too Celebrate the moment As it turns into one more Another chance at victory Another chance to score But Sabre Dance is still probably the best choice...

I'm flying up to Buffalo tomorrow with my son. I'm going to the Bills game and he gets to hang with his cousins (He's 6 and I'd never bring him anywhere near the Ralph). Looks like good weather is in store for WNY this weekend. :thumbsup:

Suicide will tear a family to shreds. My cousin committed suicide around the same ago, it's just devastating.

:lol: I wish that I could, I really do. The guy that sits across from me just came into the office and heard the signing, and he let out a big sigh and a loud "you've got to be f#@%ing kidding me!!". I think he just may take care of this for all of us. :thumbsup: Ironically this is the same guy that has the geico pig weee weee weee ringtone that I mentioned a few weeks ago on here.

Everyone has a co-worker that annoys them to some degree, but I'm here to tell you I have the most annoying co-worker ever. Bar none. Everything this woman does is annoying to everyone. Talking constantly about herself, interrupting you constantly in meetings and one on one conversations, excessively over the top dramatic reactions to the most routine matters. I loathe every second that I'm forced to interact with her. But recently it has just gone too far. My office area sits directly outside a laboratory and the above mentioned co-worker has recently moved into that lab space and has spent a great deal of time in there working over the last week or so. As she works she listens to her ipod while singing along AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS!!! Not regular singing like one who realizes they don't have a good voice might do when alone, but overly dramatic loud singing like she is on an american idol audition. My ears feel like they may begin to bleed at any moment and I forgot my own ipod / headphones today so I can't drown out this noise. It is totally beyond me how anyone could be so oblivious to their own annoying behavior. :censored: :censored:

Everyone in my office area was talking about it when I got back to my desk, but I didn't feel a thing while working in the lab.

I've been on TSW wall for a long time, but I'm kind of a hit and miss poster like I am on here. I know many long time respected posters over there have left in recent years due to some of the childish behavior that goes on. It's unfortunate, but there is still some great info to be gathered over there if you have the patience to wade through some of the nonsense.

I'm right about where you are. It's almost like it's my duty to watch on Sundays and endure the eventual kick to the nuts each and every week. This year I truly called with the intention to cancel, not fake cancel like in previous years to get a better price. When they offered it for free I figured what the hell since I usually have the Bills game turned off by halftime anyway and I just watch an actual competitive game or the red zone channel.

I have had it for 9 years and I just called the other day with the intention of canceling not only the ticket but my entire Direct TV service. They ended up giving me the ticket for free plus other discounts that added up to over $500 in savings for the year. So now I'm on the hook for another fall of miserable Sunday afternoons, but at least it's free. :thumbsup:

FWIW, I picked up my 12 pack of deconstructed at Consumer's on Transit Rd. I haven't seen it at all down here in NC.

I think Sam Adams isn't respected enough for what they do for the craft brew and homebrew community. They always have a large presence at the NHC each year where they have new beers that they plan to release available for sampling and voting. This year I believe they had a Maple Pecan Porter and and oak barrel aged ale. Both were very good. When I was up in Buffalo earlier this month I picked up a 12 pack of their special release Latitude 48 IPA "Deconstructed" at Consumers. They took their Lat 48 IPA which is brewed with five different hops and brewed five different batches with the beer hopped with each single variety. A great idea and a real treat to sit down with the fully hopped version next to all the single hopped ones and appreciate how each hop contributes to the beer. SA also sponsors the longshot competition where they invite homebrewers to enter and potentially have their beer brewed and distributed commercially. Some craft breweries near here have followed suit and are sponsoring similar compettions. SA also launched the Brewing The American Dream program

You've both got me beat. I have three taps and rarely do I have them all going at once. Right now I'm out of homebrew completely but I've got 10 gallons of APA in the fermenter.

What can I say, you have good taste brother! :thumbsup: I'll have to seek out some Pikeland Pils I've never had that one. The NHC is a blast, you should definitely try to make it one of these years. Needless to say there is way too much drinking going on from early in the morning until whenever you pass out. I'm getting past my prime apparently and I can't keep up anymore. I was in bed before midnight every day of the conference and these young guns were going strong from dusk til dawn all three days. Pro Brewers night is always a treat with all the local craft brewers on hand pouring their beers. For example, this year Russian River was pouring Pliny and some of their oak wine barrel aged brettanomyces sour beers. Just great, great stuff. NHC is Seattle next year, but I hear it's finally coming back east to Philly in 2013.

I'll jump in since I've had a little bit of a chance to gather my thoughts on this. I'm a homebrewer and beer lover, but like weave I wouldn't call myself a beer snob at all. There is a time and place for almost every kind of beer. Almost. My favorite styles are APA, IPA, czech pils, porters, stouts, and some belgians every now and then. My go to "lawnmower" beer in PBR. An ice cold PBR is fantastic on a hot summer day. Plus it's Drunkard's beer of choice when pillaging the RBC lots. When the Sabres are in the playoffs and I'm watching at my man cave outdoors it's always Labbat Blue. My favorite beer is Pliny the Elder from Russian River. They "invented" the double IPA style with this beer and it's been voted the best beer in America numerous times by the readers of Zymurgy magazine. Unfortunately, outside of a couple bars in Philly you cant find this on the east coast, but if you ever find yourself out west do yourself a favor and seek this beer out. Unearthly from Southern Tier which has been mentioned is also fantastic, but it's no Pliny. Other good double IPA's are Great Divide's Hercules double IPA and I used to be a big fan of Dogfish head 90 minute but in the last few years it seems like it's gotten to sweet, almost like to keep up with demand they are not letting the beer attentuate fully. The continuous hopping of DFH 60 minute & 90 minute is a great way to get huge hop flavor in your beer. I have homebrewed a few that way and they usually turn out great. Some regular APA & IPA favorites: Great Lakes Burning River, Sweetwater 420, Southern Tier IPA, Bell's Two Hearted Ale, New Belgium Ranger IPA & Mighty Arrow, Bear Republic Racer 5 & Hop Rod Rye (an IPA using rye malt in the grist adds another level of spiciness complexity to the beer that I enjopy a lot) Victory Brewing in PA makes some fantastic beers. Their czech pilsner Prima Pils is fantastic. Of course the ubiquitous Pilsner Urquell is great too if you can find some fresh stuff that's not in light struck bottles. Their Donnybrook stout is also a great example of an Irish dry stout. I enjoy Ommengang beers as well. Hennepin being a great farm house saison. I've been to the national homebrewers conference the last three years and you can always tell what the new "fad" craft beers are by going to these. Last year there were a lot of Belgin IPA's. Big belgian beers fermented with characteristic estery and phenolic Belgian yeast but heavily hopped with american hops (cascade, centennial, amarillo, simcoe etc.). They are ok, but I can't say I'm a big fan. This year at the conference Black IPA's seemed to be the rage. These are basically IPA's brewed with debittered dark malts that give the dark color but cuts down the roasty character normally associated with these malts. There were a few that I enjoyed, but most were not done very well and were not well balanced IMO. Alaskan Smoked Porter is fantastic. I love a good smoked porter and have smoked my own malt to brew with in the past. I know I have forgotten many but it's now 10 AM and I need a beer!!!