EcoReno update

One week under our belts with our new business venture.  We've done as well (I think) as we could hope, with fair to good sales every day.  Word is spreading, ads are appearing, and we even got a mention on a local blog about Downtown Reno development.  Additional signage coming this week.  Still figuring out all the nuances of small business bookkeeping and finance.  Overall, I think we're both feeling good about how things are going, people are excited about this and love the shop.

And with that, may I present version 2.0 of the EcoReno website.  If you still see the old one, refresh your browser.  It's a lot closer to what I originally envisioned, more aesthetically pleasing, and easier to maintain.  If you'd like to get on our email announcement list, use the contact form.

Thank you all for your support!

More Palin fun

Great fun from Saturday Night Live:

commute

I have been staying home with Lola (and Sid) for so long that I have forgotten what it is like to have a job that I actually drive and report to instead of just waking up to.  Oh wait, I still have that job as well!  The part time gig at the library was such a release and outlet for me, it never felt like work. Neither does EcoReno really, as it is me. Everything that it has turned out to be....me, with a TON of help from my lovely husband, Deej, Paigie, Lola (my assistant),Sid, Dayday, Micheleine

Friday fun

OK, this item barely qualifies as fun, but first up today is a little historical note, perhaps not well know on this side of the country.  Crossed my screen in an article about something else entirely unrelated, but I was interested enough to read more and it's fascinating.  Consider this - a fire burning, underground in a coal mine, beneath a town, since 1962, and expected to burn for the next 250 years, and the non-existence of the town as a result.   The Wikipedia article covers it pretty well, but winner of "most appropriate website name telling the story" is awarded to DamnInteresting.com's page about it.

Now on to the fun.  You may find this little site somewhere between mildly amusing and totally hilarious, but at least it's clever.  What life would be like with Sarah Palin as president.

And last, in a little nod to "Found", I present this little scrap of paper found at the library this morning.  No idea where it came from.  Can't be bothered to scan, so I transcribe:

"I have a room at the Sands (Empress or back tower) #[omitted] if you got no place you can come by and check it out - bout 11 - see whats up?"

What is up, indeed.

Beer Mecca

I'm back in one piece today from my first pilgrimage to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.  Needless to say, it was immensely enjoyable.  While poor Morgan was stuck here with kids who turned sick upon my departure, complete with vomit and lack of sleep, I was tasting some of the best beers in the nation, nay, world.  Brian and I went Thursday and Friday sessions, tasting probably somewhere around 70-80 beers if I had to guess.  No, we weren't a total wreck, they only pour one ounce tastes, and over the course of about 4 hours each night, it's pretty moderate if you're there to actually enjoy the magnificent diverse world of beer and not just party like a frat boy.  Denver seems like a nice city, too.  I find myself lacking any real narrative of the last few days other than thinking in images and little sound-bite-like nuggets of recollection.  So with that in mind, here are some highlights in words and pics:

• Best brewery we tasted - Dogfish Head


• Best beer we totally missed out on - Utopias


• Quite memorable beer - The Abyss


• Local breweries represented - Buckbean, Brew Bros, Great Basin, and Silver Peak.  Reno, represent!


• Best schwag - stamped leather Mirror Pond coasters from Deschutes  (honorable mentions: Session Lager temporary tattoos, stickers galore, and at least four free beer magazines)


• Best non-festival things we did - Killer shopping for beer with Lance and Rosie, lunch at Bull and Bush, and late night snack and beer at Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe, breakfast at Tom's Diner (straight out of Pulp Fiction, seriously), coffee at Illegal Grounds in a neighborhood full of cool old houses

Some pics, courtesy of Brian since I didn't bring my camera...

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[caption id="attachment_433" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Lance, Brian, and Marc at the GABF"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_434" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Cool buildings in our neighborhood"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_435" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="$15,000 55-year-old Macallan single-malt"][/caption]

Yes, that scotch is really priced at $14,999.  That liquor store has 64 cooler doors full of beer.

PS: added a smattering of new pictures to the miscellany album, from a few various outings, none enough to get their own album.  Oh yeah, and I missed our first snowfall while I was gone.

This doesn't frighten you in the least?

I am not a McCain fan. He's old, he's a repeat of what we have already had for the past eight years, and I think his company says a lot about him. Cindy McCain looks like she is going to need rehab again soon, and if she didn't fit in when he was first a senator when she chose to move back to AZ, she surely is not gonna make it as First Lady.

When McCain picked Palin as his running mate,  he picked the stupidest person possible. Let's be honest and to the point.  Why? Who in their right mind could think that this woman is even close to qualified for ANY political position?  I think this is one of the best clips of things that she has said that only proves my theory....stupidest person......



Really? Never heard of Time or perhaps Newsweek?  The News-Miner perhaps?  This is just one of MANY stupid answers she has given.

And just to reinforce the fact, McCain is old. He has had melanoma - you can still see it in his face. He could fall over dead VERY soon and that would make Palin your president. I say yours because I am moving to Canada if this happens.