It's been a month now! Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:38:52 -0500

Okay, so it's been a about 6 weeks now, and I have an announcement to make!

WE HAVE BEER!!!

So my Northern Brewer Nut Brown Ale turned out great and I'm loving it.

Also the gender of my spawn has been detected and he indeed is an XY carrier as I had known all along. The kid is great and in good health, wife gives me reports that the boy is a real fighter and kicking around the clock. So life feels like it can't be better. Regardless the rest of the world is falling apart, at least I have this to keep me in good spirits in this time of global uncertainty.

God bless us all dudes!

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Beer and Life Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:32:03 -0500

So last night I created my first ever batch of home brew beer. Here's hoping it doesn't screw up! It's a bit of an involved process, approximately 3 hours just to get it in the fermentor. And that's just the start.

Today the wife and I are going in for our 3rd visit with the baby doc! BTW I'm going to be a daddy in case you didn't know. Which is totally wicked for me and am super excited.

On a side note I have yet another business trip coming up next year. Third this year, considering it's all happened since August. Life is busy, but going well and so far successfully.

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It's been 2 months! Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:32:25 -0400

Wow i just happened to notice it's been 2 months since I last post

Proof these blogs are overrated :P

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Novosibirsk - T minus 1 day Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:51:29 -0400

So tomorrow morning we leave Novosibirsk, Siberia. It's been a lot of fun and have some great memories. I'll try to post some images at some point. Not much else has changed. I've tried to buy some seuvenirs to take back home, however there appears to be a complete lacking of anything that's truely local. Much like the United States it appears that everything here is imported from China. I can't even find post cards!

Anyway I am finishing up packing the bag at the moment and look forward to being back home with my wife and everything that is familiar to me.

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Novosibirsk - Day 6 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:12:16 -0400

Sorry I haven't made any posts since leaving, but understandably I am busy. Until this morning I usually wake up right in time to shower get dressed and then head up to the top floor of the hotel for eggs, bread a juice then downstairs for our ride to the office. However this morning I woke up a bit early, by around 2 hours. It's interesting how 10pm EST is 9am here.

So coming into the country wasn't so bad, the flights were all screwed up (thank you Chicago Ohaire) but we got here and that's what's important. On first impression Russians seem very mean and ill-tempered, it wasn't until yesterday I had it explained to me the chief cultural difference between westerners and Russians when it comes to the smile. Westerns smile and it's considered having good manners, but when a Russian smiles it means they personally like that person, a person like friends, family or that they just generally like. So to a Russian when I smile they are thinking "why are you smiling at me? Do I know you? I don't like you I don't even know you!".

Another major obstacle here is obviously language. However like many places just because a person doesn't speak english, doesn't mean they do not understand every word that is coming out of you mouth. I have proof of this! Friday evening one of the girls in the office was having a birthday, so there was a party. There was beer (piva), chips, fish jerky and these sandwiches with bread, cream cheese, sliced cheese, either ham or bologna and a thick slice of tomato. It was very good actually. Oh yes and juice and vodka (naturally). So once the drinks started to flow we began to play charades!! And they were very good at playing.

I have learned many many things about the people here and it's been a very eye opening and interesting trip that I have enjoyed. I have to thank the people here that have basically baby sit us, Ilya and Vadim they have taken great care of us and taught us so much and been very patient with all of our hundreds of questions. I'll try to post again before I leave.

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