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euro and beer

Monday, Jun 9. 2008  –  Category: Musings

two of my favourite things in the world… and they go hand in hand.

for what it’s worth – my money is on portugal or the dutch. if i had to choose one, i’d say the portuguese. but, given that england ain’t in it (curse you steve mcclaren!), i’m rooting for the dutch. (how can you not root for a team willing to go out and duel it in oranje?)

the dutch proved themselves well today with a sweet 3-0 drubbing of italy.

i’m loving this weather we’ve been having the past few days. wendy and i just got the house re-landscaped, so we have a beautiful gorgeous house… which reeks of mulch/compost. especially nice with the heat wave… mmm… chicken manure anybody? i spent a good chunk of saturday fighting the good fight against our bamboo jungle in the backyard. we have a gorgeous bamboo grove, and i wanted to pull out some of the dead bamboo in the middle. i got whipped quite a few times by some harsh slaps of bamboo for my trouble, but managed to thin out the grove a bit.

saturday night we had dinner at a wonderful Chinese Muslim restaurant that had fantastic food, but served no beer. (name/location left out to save one of the few restaurants that’s gone above and beyond the call of duty and deserved their tip) i went and asked the manager if i could go next door to the Chinese supermarket and bring in some beer. without skipping a beat, he told me to bring in a 6 pack and he’d put it in teapots and bring it to our table. 7 minutes and $5 later (really! $5!!!) i had a frosty 6 pack of Tsingtao. 3 minutes after that, we were pouring ice cold beer from a Chinese teapot. we left a big tip for those guys.

on sunday, zac, jaime, and i did some climbing at the local gym in preparation for our attack on Cathedral Peak coming up in a couple of weeks. we’re planning to hit up Castle Rock for some leader belay review for zac to make sure everything goes smoothly this year. i’m hoping this will be the year i finally tackle Cathedral with enough time to also do Eichorn’s Pinnacle at the top.