Stir Crazy & Valentine’s Day

For Valentine's Day, Jenny and I drove down to Preston , MN where we used to meet when Jenny was in college. We ate dinner at The Branding Iron and it was very good (except that Jenny's $7 burger was better than my $16 steak... ) We ate at the Branding Iron together three years ago, when I gave Jenny a dozen roses and a few days of influenza...

Root Beer Tournament

Over the past few weeks, five friends and I had a root beer tournament at work.  We had 16 different root beer brews in a double elimination tournament.  Seeds were mostly based on our root beer contest last year.  We tried to keep the contest as blind as possible, so we wouldn't know which root beers we were drinking.

Stewart's lost its first match to Frostie, but battled its way back through the losers bracket to take home the crown!  

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Pickled Beets

Nobody ever says "I want to be a junkie live in Minnesota when I grow up".

Hello.  I know it has been awhile.  I blame shoveling the driveway (we had a blizzard one day), busyness ( I don't know how to spell this word), and laziness.  We have had many adventures since the last time, including exploding root beer bottles, cross country skiing, and a new garage door opener.