Bonny Portland

On Monday I made it my mission to find out where Apizza Scholls got their Old Style tall-boys from. There is a Bears-Packers game this weekend and I'm optimistic it'll be on TV at home. It took 1 sec of a google search to find my first option, they had an online beer search and I was off.

Looks like a convienence store, no parking, but 1000 beers. Picked up:

a six pack of Old Style - for the game

a four pack of Scottish Heather Ale - not what I remembered from Scotland, but ok.

the first beers I've ever had from my paternal homeland, Lithuania - Porter AWESOME, Lagers also VERY GOOD

Kelpie - A Scottish Beer made with Seaweed water, haven't tried it yet

a pair of Czech Republic beers - for my buddy who will be visiting. We've been to Prague together 2x.

A beer store. Beer we can believe in.

Chicagoan and White Sox Fan Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.

Here in Oregon we have a vote by mail system. Everyone has either already mailed their ballot back in or are dropping off at designated boxes in their area. Really takes some of the excitement out of Election Day. No stickers, No crazy registration problems. I'm curious if the state has already started counting the early ballots, they have a table of how many ballots from each county they have received each day. Not sure if at 8pm we'll have a quick "with 66% of the precincts reporting..."

So in Wales, they have to have official signs in both English and in Welsh. When they needed this residential site only sign translated, they only got back "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." I can only assume that NO ONE in the chain of command speaks ANY Welsh.

Its very similar in Ireland, where all the information is also in Irish (Gaeilge). Hopefully they avoid these similar problems.

Source: BBC News

I don't care for Bud Light, but this commercial made me laugh

One of my favorite (if not favorite) holiday's is upon us. I love going out on Halloween and seeing all the cool costumes. Especially love you ladies out there going all out to look a special kind of sexy (Olivia is Queen of Halloween Hotness).

We carved our pumpkins last night, Its really hard to take a picture in darkness with our SLR. You basically need a tripod, that we don't have, because the aperature stays open until it acquires enough light. The result is usually blurry at best, freakishly streaky at worse.

We also finally found GOOD SUSHI in Portland!!! Its a place currently called Masu East, but soon to be Bamboo Sushi. In fact, we had a hard time finding it because they changed the signage yesterday. Not only was the sushi awesome, but they are going to be the FIRST certified sustainable sushi restaurant in the USA (possibly the world) when the official re-opening happens in a few weeks.

All the fish was extremely fresh. We sat at the sushi bar and even saw the chef clean and prepare our horse mackeral (similar to spanish mackeral). After we had two orders, one filet made two pieces/one order os sushi, the chef asked if we wanted the bones? Bones? Yep. They deep fry them and turn into the craziest potato chip you may have ever had. DEFINITELY something to try.

Everyone, Enjoy Halloween and if you're in Portland, give sustainable sushi a try.