It’s still ridiculously cold here in New Jersey. I don’t get it. I took all three kids to the Beers St. School’s Father Day Social – it was outside with Italian Ice. I don’t think they planned for this weather when they scheduled it.

Cory Doctorow reviewed a book recently that I am really interested in – Mind Over Ship. My favorite quote – “…it trembles on the verge of breakdown, acrobatically walking on a tightrope over the pit of too-weird.” I haven’t read anything really weird in a while. I wonder if Cory would consider books like Story of the Eye or My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist as falling into the pit of too-weird or not.

On another note, Laura and I recently (6/15) celebrated our 10 year “dating anniversary”. By celebrate, I mean I changed my Facebook status. Our seventh wedding anniversary is coming up next week, and we will quietly celebrate that by opening the first bottle of wine that I made last month.

Speaking of making beer and wine, I have two beers in the hopper right now – a summer “ginger” ale and Abbey Experiment #2 – a lighter Trappist that I hope will be close to a Trippel.