Photo Friday - Sunday at the California Beer Festival in Ventura

A evening of bowling and shenanigans...

This was a great night with friends. It was great to see Nichole and Cody. We all had a blast and the beer went down easy. And, for the record, I had the high score for the evening.

Enjoy the slideshow. - jdm

Tuesday's Truth (I love to drive & travel)

Truth is, I really love to travel, and I really love roadtrips.

I'm taking one this weekend, and maybe even next weekend. This weekend I'm going to San Francisco and the bay area with my lovely lady. We plan on seeing a lot of cool stuff like Alcatraz and eating some awesome food. And I haven't seen my cousin Lisa in a while, and she lives in San Jose with her super cool husband Dan and their new baby, Riley!

We leave Thursday morning and we're coming back Sunday. I keep looking at more and more things to do in SF and I get more and more excited. See here and here and here.

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One thing about roadtrips is music. You gotta, gotta, gotta have the right music. If it were just me, I'd crank it. But since I'm with the lady fair, I need to turn it down. She's a fan, but not that big of a fan. And we don't full agree on what is good music. I'll make/pick the playlists and she'll bend and kinda like them. I'm not really feeling like listening to musicals and such. That's how we roll.

Coming soon: Music Monday! Any thoughts as to what you'd like to read about? Let me know.

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Trivia Night at TGIF

I had a lot of fun tonight. It was the first time to meet up with some friends that often do the trivia night at TGIF by the mall. I thought I knew a little about a lot, but some of these guys got me beat. Mike D was the man. It was fun for real. We won. And for that you get 2 x $10 gift cards and a card for a free appetizer. The cool thing is that you can use the gift cards that night, so we did.

I'm gonna steal a pic from Lady D's blog, but you should go to her site to get the whole scoop. And aside from that, her blog is cool and you should read it. She finds all the cool places to eat and she takes pictures of the food to make you want to go there!

- John B, Mike D, Ryan D, and yours truly (photo courtesy of Lady Ducayne)

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Wordless Wednesday (4th of July Version)

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Some things to think about (4th of July)

A series of moments that make you think...

I had a great, simple day with friends. We watched some soccer, played fake poker (I lost like usual), ate hot dogs, drank beers, and drank an avocado smoothie.

The smoothie was decent. We decided to make it a little bit more interesting and add some Malibu. It still was weird, but a bit interesting. Kudos to Eric for bringing the avocados and looking up the recipe. If anyone is interested, I'll get it for you.

We then left and headed down to the Valencia Town Center area to watch the fireworks. On the way there I heard some really intense, not-so-good news, about a friend. It's too private to share publicly. This is one of the moments.

Friends & Coffee

(Written 5/12/10)

Ok, so today started off a little rough because of not enough sleep, but it got awesome... pretty damn quick.

Mitch (Newhall Coffee) invited a bunch of people over to kinda groundbreak the new "Mitch's Java 'n Jazz". He needed a tasting room so he built it and plans to host events there once or twice a month. And he plans on having live music too. That'll be awesome.