It was a crisp, clear Saturday afternoon. The wife was away at a conference in San Francisco, the kids were playing in the back yard, and I was attempting to read Stephen King’s 11/22/63 on my Nexus 7 tablet as I sat on my patio. I was about two pages […]
As I am drinking this bottle of Anchor Brewing’s Porter and writing up this review, Mrs. G-LO is fast asleep in the room above me. Tomorrow morning at 8:30, she will be flying to San Francisco for the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting (sounds like fun right?). […]
This week’s news post is all about us… The WhiskyLIVE NYC WhiskyCast Virtual Tasting Is Online! Last Wednesday I posted my review of the 2013 WhiskyLIVE NYC. If you managed to make it to the end of my review, then you already know that I took part in […]
During my hunt for the absolutely delicious Founders All Day IPA, I saw that Total Wine in Cherry Hill, NJ was selling singles of the Budweiser Black Crown. Since I was curious to see what this beer is all about, I decided to pick up a bottle as […]
A few weeks ago, The Alemonger sent me a photo via text (for those of you that sweat the details, this happened on February 23rd at 5:01 PM) of the latest Maine Beer Company beer (i.e. Lil One) that he purchased at the Wegman’s Wine and Spirits store […]
On January 22nd, I received the following email from Berenice Gonzalez, a public relations representative at FORMULATIN in New York City: By now many of your readers may have already given up on their “get in shape” or “get organized” New Year’s resolutions. But it doesn’t mean that […]
Every December 26th for the past several years, our good friends Mike and Linda, along with their son Eddie, have dropped by our home for a post Christmas lunch on the way back to their home in Connecticut. During this past visit, Mike gave me four very different […]
The above photo is my submission for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge from WordPress’s The Daily Post Blog. This week’s theme is Illumination. And below are a couple more shots that hopefully illustrate this theme (one of them even won an award!).
Since Thanksgiving was relatively early this year, I thought that the Holiday Season (i.e. Black Friday to New Year’s Day), would go by at a leisurely pace. I couldn’t have been more wrong! The last week of November and the entire month of December were a blur, and […]
While doing a bit of booze shopping for the Holidays at WineWorks in Marlton, New Jersey (I purchased two bottles of wine for the bosses at work, two big bottles of beer for my dear Papa, and a bottle of Bunnahabhain 12 for a very close friend), I […]