Headed out

Turns out there is, indeed, free wifi throughout the Anchorage airport (at least the C concourse in the South Terminal; haven't tried B. And to hell with the North Terminal.) Slow as molasses, but there.

Flying to NYC tonight, on a miserable redeye to PDX, then to MSP, then to LGA. Ugh.

TGS was in town last weekend, and we brewed like a wildfire. An american amber, a barleywine, a DIPA, a foreign export stout, a bastard batch of randoms and leftovers, and a second runnings batch that will probably suck called Middle Child.

After the trip to NYC, I'm headed to SMF for a week in mid May, then J and I fly to Hawaii for a much needed vacation at the end of May. Should be good, though my back already hurts a little from all the flying.

Okay, back to podcast listening and trying to stay awake until my flight boards.

Kodiak redux

Nice day. Woke up in time (8:45) to have the bar area with the continental breakfast practically to myself. I lingered for a while reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini . It's deeply mediocre and overrated, but it's the book I brought, and it's not so terrible that I'm willing to put it down two-thirds in.

I spent a couple of hours working on my brief for the case that I'm here on while watching the Red Sox game, and then walked around (downtown) Kodiak. It was pleasant, a little chilly, and I went back to the hotel to call Kodiak Island Winery to see if they were open yet for the summer. I got the disappointing and sad news that they aren't sure if they're going to open at all this year due to health issues.

So I got a sandwich and headed out to Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park and had some nice walking, hiking, and touching the cold water in a very different part of the Pacific than the one we were in a month ago.

Catching AS back to ANC in a couple of hours, and then bearing down on this brief. More absolutely may or may not come soon.

Rarrr

I'm in Kodiak. Since I'm actually here for work, and Kodiak isn't that big of a place, I'm not going to say what kind of work. However, massive super duper bonus points (and a prize of an unspecified but undoubtedly beer flavored nature) to anyone who guesses what (specific) kind of work it is from this clue: the last time I was in Kodiak, I was doing the same type of work, for the same (ultimate) supervising attorney.

After a pleasant if bumpy at the end flight from ANC this morning really early, I had a decent breakfast and got some good work done. I then went back to my hotel, the Best Western, which is billed by Moon, Lonely Planet, and I think Frommer's as the nicest hotel in town. If so, well, hmmm. It's perfectly nice, but about the quality of a standard 2.5 star or low 3 star in any other (city.)

Great meeting for the work. Enough said.

Then I headed over to Kodiak Island Brewing Company, and had a nice chat with the super friendly brewer, Ben, who was kind enough to throw a couple tastes and a pint my way despite the fact that he was hoping to be closing soon. It was damn delicious: his Tripel IPA, run through a Randall. He seemed impressed that I know what Randall is, and I mentioned having had something from a Randall at, I *think* it was, GABF.

Okay -- I need to choose from a virtual non-plethora of options for dinner before everything closes on a Saturday night in the off-season. Maybe more later.