Mainly just beer.

This post is mainly about beer.  I talk about tapering off beer so as to whittle my waist but who am I kidding?  I love beer!  And you know what?  Beer loves me too.  So why fight nature?  Beer is here to stay.

Last weekend we finally enjoyed our tour of the Boulevard Brewery in downtown Kansas City.  They had a few short videos throughout the brewery so you could learn more about the brewing process.  The old building is the ca. 1888 Muehlebach Brewery building.  The new building uses recycled pine for the floors, big windows to let in light, a “green” roof to use water and recycled building materials.  It was interesting to see and of course, there were samples.  I love samples.  I’ll take samples of anything please.

The beautiful, pine flooring.

One of the uhhh brewery things.

I liked these illuminated bottles in the wall.

A very strong beer that is brewed in old Jack Daniels barrels.

The new building, bottling area.

I had a lot of samples of this.  It’s absolutely lovely, if you like strong, heavy-tasting ales.

In news other than beer….Patton is still in training.  His awesome trainer was over last week helping us continue towards our goal of therapy dog status.  He still has a ways to go but he’s a good doggie.  He doesn’t seem to want me to go in front of him up or down the stairs.  He races ahead of me, gets to the top and wags his tail at me.  Meanwhile I’m almost screaming “PAAAAATTON!!!” to get him to wait.  We’ll get there.  I can only go up and down the stairs so much before I wear out, so this might take a while.

When it’s not raining, I have the deck door open so the dogs can go in and out.  This is all good until the mosquitoes figure it out.  Patton loves to hang out here and chill:

Maybe it will quit raining finally.

Rowdy went out there earlier and took a giant whiz, which promptly drained to the patio below.  Oh well.  At least it wasn’t on the carpet.

Even the rats like it.  This is our female pair, Samus and Ash.

Other then that, I’ve had a couple doctor check ups.  Like 3 or 4….I lose count easily.  The rheumatologist said to keep giving myself monthly shots of immuno-suppressants and to keep working out.  My gyno said my pain could be related to a bladder disorder so check that out with a urologist.  The urologist put a camera up into my bladder and took a peek.  He said it’s fine.  By the way, that test fucking hurts.  Try having anything shoved up your urethra when you are still awake.  So now I’m having horrible abdominal pain and bleeding, which I know to be the endometriosis.  I’m sure it’s about time for surgery again, which by the way, the last I talked to the ear, nose and throat guy, he recommended surgery for my sinuses and my rheumatologist agrees.  Can they laser your gut and drill holes in your sinuses at the same time?  That would be ideal.  I would like to just ignore everything and be free of medical bills and doctors for a while.  But then everything hurts worse and I quit functioning.  So I guess I better deal with this shit.  Ugh.  I think I have to figure out which one is more important right now, how much work can I take off before being fired and then go from there.

Oh by the way?  I’m sick of people who are younger then me, don’t have fertility issues and/or already have kids bitching about how they may not have anymore children in the future.  Know what?  Fuck you.  That’s all I have to say about that.

Aaaand I just finished another delightful stitch which I will post after it reaches England.  I think it’s time for some Pale Ale and a heating pad.  Thank god I have today off.

Tschus!

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