drunk.com

I’m sitting here with a taste of home, well what was home up until a little while ago, in the form of a bottle of Badger First Gold from Dorset. No, I’ve never lived in Dorset, but before my last move there was a pub around the corner that served a variety of Badger ales. It’s familiar in what feels like a very good way, here working on my fourth month in a new place.

There’s not a whole lot to report at the moment. I’m into the last month of the semester, and things are largely on track. I got the score I wanted on the last paper I had graded, and so that’s pretty much one of the four classes done and dusted. I know, it’s not about grades, but it’s nice to get the feedback you seek.

Otherwise, the seasons are changing here and it’s somewhat more drastic than I was expecting. Nothing too over the top, but some shopping might be in order as my current set of clothes aren’t really doing the trick so much. The same goes for linens - I picked up some new sheets that I hope will make things more reasonable.

Oh, and on the scooter front, the 1969 Sprint 150 is sitting downstairs in my garage looking beautiful, but just today I ordered a PX200. I figure even under the most ideal of circumstances, I’m not going to get amazing reliability out of a 38 year old scooter, especially as I’m not yet a mechanic, and if I want to learn how to handle a scooter with gears, I might do better with something that I know will be able to deal with a novice. I should have it in a few weeks, and I’m really looking forward to a bit more umph on the road than the 50cc LX I’m on now.

Beyond that, I’m still waiting for a shipment of new music, but I picked up a trio of soundtracks over the weekend because they were on sale and I couldn’t help myself. In no particular order, at the moment I’m listening to the music from The Garden State, Kill Bill, Vol. 1, and Pretty in Pink. I already have a number of tracks from the first on other CDs, but I figure if they have the good taste to include the Shins and Iron and Wine, I’ll take a chance and see what else they included. The Kill Bill music isn’t bad, though sometimes too cliché for my tastes. Pretty in Pink is just funny - I know I had the soundtrack on cassette back in the day. Some of the songs have aged more gracefully than others, let’s just say.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 4th, 2007 at 8:15 am and is filed under beer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.