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Beer + Computers + Local!

I just got home from my bachelorette party, but I won’t write about that until tomorrow, er, later today, after I sleep.

Friday night turned out to be more fun than we expected. Michael and I headed out to Ortino’s Northside for a couple of beers and a nice dinner. We hung out for a while and then some guy came up and said hello to Michael. Wait, some guy? Oh my gosh, it was ! I’m terrible with faces as it is, and he’s lost some weight since I last saw him, plus I totally didn’t expect to see him there since he lives over 45 minutes away now. It turns out he was meeting up with his brother, his sister, and her husband who still live in the area.

So his family shows up, we all decide to get a table together and enjoy a couple more beers – including sharing a bottle of Dogfish Head 120 minute ale – woo! It turns out that his family rocks. His sister and her husband are beer snobs, we could have spoken forever about that. And her husband is a computer consultant, they actually know a few people we know, and he said he’s been down to PLUG meetings from time to time. Now we have a ton more to talk about!

Even better? They live about 2 miles from Ortinos Northside, which means they’re only about 4 miles from our house, ROCK! After dinner they invited us to their place. ended up leaving their house fairly early, but Michael and I chilled out with them until almost 2AM. We watched a documentary on Victory Brewing Company that they had on DVD (we must locate a copy for ourselves, it was great), the guys found a common interest in The Cure and some other music, and they brought out the poker set even though none of us really play poker it was a very nice set. I promptly lost the poker game and indulged in their bottle of aged Victory V12 while playing and snuggling with their adorable chihuahuas (I want one).

As the night wound down we swapped contact info. They sent us home with a couple bottles of 120 Minute (they had a case) and let me borrow MDJ’s Higher-Order Perl.

It was a great night, and I think it’s safe to say we made some new friends.

By the way, one should not have Dogfish Head 120 Minute Ale and Victory V12 in the same night unless you don’t have plans for the next two days :P

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