Saturday, March 22, 2008

Orkney SkullSplitter Ale


Orkney Brewery
Quoyloo Sandwick
UK Scotland

Orkney is a small group of islands off Scotland. Home of Thorfin Hausakluif (Skullsplitter), the 7th Viking Earl of Orkney 1,000 AD.

Dark reddish copper color, thick tan head. Heavy malt taste with a slight bitter finish. Picked this up on my last trip to Louisiana.

Monday, March 17, 2008

This guy celebrated St. Patrick's day a little to much.

Seems fitting for a day were everyone is Irish and gives us an excuse to drink. I wonder if they had green beer back around 3000 BC?

"Canterbury Archaeological Trust said the curled-up skeleton was an example of a "Beaker" burial because of the pottery vessel placed at its feet.

Education officer Marion Green said the "beautifully decorated" pot could have been "a type of beer mug"."

Read the full article here

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Fwd: Email Sucks, sometimes......

Typically when I get a fwd email from someone, it is a tragic story with a life lesson at the end, or a feel good story about overcoming great adversity, lately it has been political with different reasons why a candidate is evil.

In most cases the story is usually false and it still gets passed around. This email started off the same way, friend of a friend sent me this story and they were actually there so it must be true, let me fwd it to you. I started reading with the usual skepticism trying to guess the outcome of the story, this one seemed like it was going to be a tragic story with a lesson at the end. So I read on the learn today's life lesson. Let me tell you, after reading it I was convinced that it needed to be shared, so not only did I fwd it to every person in my address book, I posted it here. Please read on.

-----Original Message-----
From: []
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Fw: Accident Photos



I actually had to think about whether to send this or not.....it's pretty
graphic



I almost cried when I saw this picture. It is absolutely gut wrenching.
It shows the importance of being properly strapped in.
A friend of a friend sent him this photo of a horrible highway accident
in Germany. The picture may be kind of hard to take for some of you. If
you look closely you can see what appear to be some survivors of the
accident still in the wreckage. Although the picture is quite graphic, it
makes you realize how quickly our loved ones can be taken from us.

My friend stayed on the scene to help and even though he performed mouth
to mouth on quite a few of them, none apparently survived.



Ha, I had to laugh and share!