6th May 2008, 11:41 pm
Yesterday while Danielle was over I picked up a six pack of New Holland’s beer The Poet. I’m happy because Meijer is now carrying it, which makes it easy to pick up for enjoying with dinner. Unfortunately, all but one or two bottles of this beer seem to be as flat as you can see up above. There’s just no head / foam on it at all.
After finding the contact page on New Holland’s site I emailed Isaac Hartman, who is listed as the Ambassador of Great Beer (Sales). Hopefully he’ll respond and, at the very least, do what he can to ensure that their beer at Meijer is better in the future.
As this beer tastes pretty sweet, I’m figuring that it didn’t bottle condition right. Maybe New Holland gave Meijer a few cases of them expecting them to age a bit in the store room or on the shelf and instead they just went into refrigeration. Or… who knows. It’s definitely not right, though.
6th May 2008, 10:35 pm
Today after getting home from work I ate some carrots and hummus and hopped on my bike, intending just to run up to the bank and go to the ATM. Instead I ended up going to the ATM, then winding my way through industrial parks up to 24 Mile and M-53, where I turned around under the bridge after coming across this amusingly broken set of toy guns. I then wound my way home, taking time to ride through every industrial road / park I came across, racking up a total of 15 miles.
Yesterday I received this box in the mail, and tonight I opened it and grabbed some pictures. See, a guy by the name of Jan Czmok, who is the only person (that I know of) besides me to build a complete MIDIbox SID-NUXX (you can see his photos of his here) wanted to buy a for-repair TR-606 on eBay, but the seller would only ship to the US, so I’m relaying it for him. Here is a mirror of the auction, if you’d like to see it. For reference, the auction closed for $255.
I wish him luck in fixing it up because it’s not in particularly good shape. While it doesn’t seem to have a smell, the damage to it makes me think that it was either left in a garage for a few years, that it survived a flood, or maybe that it was just left at the bottom of a septic tank full of angry lobsters.
If you would like to see the full photos of the TR-606, click on this link.
