A rather good pale ale, that went down a treat after a day at work, and before I headed out to walk to the local river to do my monthly water sampling.
Collaboration with the Danish brewery brew Beer Here. Pale ale with rye malt and hops Zealanders. Amara, dry with a strong fruity aroma and resin … Hard to find! Brewed with rye malt and Columbus and Motueka hops.
I certainly enjoyed this, and I’ll be on the look out for it again.
Back to work today after a three day sick break. I don’t which was most annoying. Losing three days paid work or suffering the bug itself. I’m still feeling that I have a distinct lack of energy but it can only get better I’m sure.
It’s a long day today; almost twelve hours. Still I’m enjoying this three hour break in the middle of that right now and wring this with the help of a large cappuccino with an extra shot of espresso in.
Will it keep me awake? Well, I’m not prone to falling asleep during the day, what ever I’m doing, but I’ll be glad to get done and get home this evening
I’m as guilty as the next person. I mean to post in a blog regularly and I do for a short time, and then it gets neglected.
Whats been occurring?
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to buy a secondhand iPad Mini 2 for a good price so I did. It’s been a real useful addition too. I like the size; quite frankly my Samsung Galaxy NotePro 12.2 is too big to chuck in a car at pocket and carry around everywhere.
Then the PC died. I’d been running Windows 10 Technical Preview on it for the best part of a year, and it was certainly better than Windows 8, but it was still prone to annoying slowdowns and lock ups.
I decided to go for a Mac instead. My current budget wouldn’t stretch to a Mac Pro, and as I already had a decent Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and a widescreen monitor only a few months old, a Mac Mini fitted the bill just right.
As I had my data on external drives and in the cloud, set up was a doddle, and I was up and running in no time. Of course, when you’re running software, the Operating System should really just be there in the background taking care of everything and OS X does just that. None of those hang ups or slowdowns either. I’m happy with the switch, and perhaps a new iPhone might logically complete this change to a new ecosystem.
I’ve actually been writing this post on my iPad Mini. I’d be the first to say I’d rather be using a full size keyboard, but the experience hasn’t been too bad. Better than blogging anything more than a couple of sentences from a smartphone!