Items That Make Life Better

[dualstow]

I've tried the Southern Tier one as I originally hail from the Ithaca area. I mean I like IPAs and hoppy beers. They do make life better.

I just wish the shelves had more non-hoppy choices. Love pils, love heavy Belgian trappist tripels.

While I'm not really a beer snob, Bud makes my bones ache the next day for some reason. I will never go back to cheap, watery beer.

[Kbg]

Good health. Not fully appreciated unless lost for a time.

[Jack Jones]

The internet. It's been the most impactful innovation in my lifetime. Truly wiring us all together into a collective consciousness.

[dualstow]

The internet. It's been the most impactful innovation in my lifetime. Truly wiring us all together into a collective consciousness.

So true. I always say I would have had a happier childhood had it existed when I was growing up in a little hick town and was still too young to travel much.

[Cortopassi]

Good health. Not fully appreciated unless lost for a time.

Top of the list for sure.

[stuper1]

A nearby branch library with access to a well-stocked library system.

[dualstow]

I always hated being at the beck and call of a ringing landline growing up, preferring an answering machine. ("Are you screening your calls, D?" / "Well, yes, but since it's you I picked up. Are you complaining?")

Email has really taken the pressure off the idea that you can always be reached in the evening after work. You answer when you feel like it. More internet goodness.

The cellphone has taken some of that away, but ... there's always voice mail.

At the same time, I think fountain pens and handwritten notes make life better.

[Maddy]

At the same time, I think fountain pens and handwritten notes make life better.

Ha! A kindred spirit! Written in cursive, of course.

[dualstow]

I like both cursive & print

[Kriegsspiel]

Distortion pedals.

[dualstow]

Distortion pedals.

Don't you have everything down to a backpack? How do you fit all that in there?

[Kriegsspiel]

I haven't had my own in a good while now. I certainly appreciate other people owning stuff that makes my life better also.

[dualstow]

Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.

Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.

IPA,

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

[jhogue]

Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.

Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

Having spent 6 years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, I will have to say that there is nothing quite like Pilsner Urquell.


Tonight, however, I will be celebrating the 4th of July with friends in truly American fashion: fireworks and bottles of Coors.

[Mountaineer]

Ha. Also, while I love beer, do you think people are getting a little carried away with hops these past several years?
I do.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

I will add this:
Although I love a good IPA, at 200+ calories per 12oz, a couple of pints with any regularity can make you fat very quickly if you're not careful.

One can always get a gig playing Santa Claus after a summer and fall of imbibing IPAs.

[Kriegsspiel]

Lots of good non-IPA brews out there in the brewniverse. Unfortunately the shelves are full of this fad.

No. Once you have had a good IPA, the rest of the stuff they call beer is just plain inferior.

Having spent 6 years in Europe courtesy of the US Army, I will have to say that there is nothing quite like Pilsner Urquell.


Tonight, however, I will be celebrating the 4th of July with friends in truly American fashion: fireworks and bottles of Coors.

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

[dualstow]

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.

I recently read something about how even children in Belgium drink their low alcohol "table beers." Jealous. I was raised on coca-cola and Tahitian Treat.

[Kriegsspiel]

Hefeweizen all day for me. Including morning.

Yes! It's amazing in summer. Especially Weihenstephaner.
I don't know where the not-before-12 o'clock drinking custom originated, but it must've been started by someone who wasn't financially independent.

Oh yea, the best beer of summer.

I recall Ben Franklin scolded workers for drinking beer with breakfast. And John D. Rockefeller scolded EVERYONE who drank.

Everyone can't be perfect.

[Kriegsspiel]

I like Jeff Tucker's Bourbon With Breakfast line.

[Mark Leavy]

Distortion pedals.

Don't you have everything down to a backpack? How do you fit all that in there?

No, that's me you're thinking of.
But, also, anything Kriegsspiel says is truth. Now, I have to figure out how to get distortion pedals in my daypack.

Mark

[Mark Leavy]

And in the spirit of the thread...

A folded bandana in your pocket. A million little life emergencies are easily solved.

[dualstow]

I do remember that you are also a light traveler, Mark. A nomad with no fixed house or car.

[Xan]

And in the spirit of the thread...

A folded bandana in your pocket. A million little life emergencies are easily solved.

At first I read that "banana". I had trouble figuring out how a folded banana in your pocket could possibly solve more problems than it caused.

[Marlb10]

I do remember that you are also a light traveler, Mark. A nomad with no fixed house or car.

Nomads don't usually have a fixed house or car

[Marlb10]

Otherwise they won't be nomads lol