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Some of you know, many of you don't. So here is the formal announcement. I'm starting a new job on March 15th. I'm going to a start-up company where I'm going to be 'head' of IT. I say 'head' in quotes because it is still a very small company at the moment that has big plans you can probably guess the size of the IT department once I start.

Breaking Up is Hard to do

If you follow me on Twitter, or are a friend on Facebook then you no doubt know that I'm working on losing a lot of weight. Hell nearly all of my status updates are in the weight loss topic and the Beer talk has been a little lean as of late. The biggest surprise to me so far, well other than watching my weight drop, is that I'm inspiring other people to take a similar look at their health.

I'm making a cider without using sulfates and my yeast starter wasn't ready on Saturday when I got the juice. In order to keep the wild yeast at bay I put the carboy in my cooler at 33 F. Now my yeast starter is stepped up and ready to ferment. I was going to pull the carboy out of the cooler and let it warm up so I could pitch the yeast after work but I noticed that there was a fair bit of sediment that had settled to the bottom of the carboy. I put the carboy back in the cooler and now I ask you:

To: Jason Altmire
Subject: American Steel

Your Campaign Ad, where you play it's a good thing that you went to the border to look at the steel to make sure it was American. You had nothing better to do than go there and look for yourself at the steel? Nobody in the area that you could telephone? They couldn't FAX you a purchase order?

Melissa Hart won't have to run any attack ads if you keep running winners like this.

When I was in scouts I took part in Canoe Trails. Canoe trails was a high adventure program that was run by Explorer Post 488 in Vanport, PA. It was run by George Wildman. We went canoing in Kipawa Canada. There is almost nothing on the internet about Canoe Trails or Explorer Post 488 which I find amazing. Maybe by making this post someone who has more information will stumble upon it and help me find out it's current status.

I found this story on Go Magazine about how Philly Beer Week and how Pittsburgh is a better city for beer than Philadelphia. While I like the sentiment I have to strongly disagree that Pittsburgh is a better beer city than our arch rivals across the state.

So I finally did it, I became a member for public media. While I would of rather given my money to WDUQ radio for all the NPR that I listen to. I never brought myself to pull the trigger.

But this morning I was flipping channels and saw Chef Kevin from Alchemy on a cooking show, it caught my attention and I watched him make jello noodles for his bison dish. That guy is nuts.

You can find all baby relating information over at allisonbearer.com.

Heather did not have a good experience getting the epidural put in. They had to do it twice and call in some help. While she pretty much went to sleep after I was allowed back in the room. She said it was a horrible experience. But now she's in good shape. They broke her water and she's napping or at least trying to..

Heather is getting her epidural and they kicked me out of the room. I had some blueberry pancakes, and now I'm waiting for them to let me back in.