Yummo!

To celebrate my birthday yesterday, I met Matt and Gavin at the Belgian Beer Cafe down in The Rocks for a couple of scrumptious ... and somewhat potent ... beers.

We then grabbed a cab and met Susan and Linda at the Pink Peppercorn Laotian restaurant on Oxford St in Darlinghurst.

As expected, the food was excellent and the company was great. It just doesn't get any better than that.

I was slightly amused this morning to discover that, on the way home, I had popped into the supermarket at Strathfield and bought enough groceries to last me until my next birthday :-).

Ah, the demon alcohol ... mind you, there were no naughty impulse purchases, just the stuff I normally buy, so I guess it worked out just fine.

Getting Stapled

I'd prefer good Belgian beer in mine, but still ...

The Demon Alcohol

I woke up this morning feeling a little the worse for wear.

Last night, I had drinks with some of the guys from Forge at the Lansdowne.

That would have been fine, except that when we decided to call it a night, Andy said he was going off to join up with Socs's son's buck's night pub crawl, which was in full swing down in The Rocks. Not one to miss a good pub crawl, I accepted his suggestion to tag along.

So, rather than it being a relatively quiet night, I ended up at the Hero Of Waterloo, Fortune Of War and eventually the downstairs bar at Jackson's On George.

To cap it all off, this morning I looked around the apartment and could not, for the life of me, find the bag I had with me last night! I called the last couple of pubs, with very little hope ... and my pessimism was fully repaid.

Fortunately, I eventually remembered that Andy and I had popped into the Forge offices before strolling off to the Hero Of Waterloo. Obviously, my brain was working much better last night than this morning. I left my bag there!

However, I urge you, gentle reader, to ignore this positive outcome ... the next time someone offers you the demon drink say "Get thee behind me, Satan!" :-).

Mmmm ... Beer!

According to this article on Gizmodo, a New Zealand uni student has created an incredibly important tool.

It's a cooling device that super cools your beer ... or any other, inferior, beverage, I guess ... in no time flat.

Apparently, it's cooling capacity is around four times that of ice, plus it doesn't water down your beer!