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JFJ — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:29:03 +0000

Since we arrived home from Christmas, we have been working on a little side project at the pub next to our apartment. We have 180 days from the day we started. We are already 25% done! In the process, we have had some GREAT beers, one AWFUL beer, and some cool beers. Here is the project, plus a photo of a recent beer that claims to be from the oldest brewery.

New England Foliage with Fiala Folks

JFJ — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:11:17 +0000

Happy Columbus Day!

We took a weekend trip to Maine and New Hampshire with Josh’s folks to do some leaf peeping, antiquing, brewery hunting, and euchre playing. We had such a fun trip and loved exploring NH’s White Mountains – especially Franconia Notch – with them.

We spent our first night in Maine and found plenty of local brews to try while getting in a few rounds of Euchre. It was a great way to end a good day of antiquing and a nice dinner at the Portsmouth Brewery in New Hampshire!

We saw great colors early and often!

Josh found the Yellow Lady and had to try a round at lunch.

One of many cute covered bridges we saw

We did short hikes to a few pretty falls

The place we stayed had a whole block of houses and a brewery! It was great!

The cuteness where we stayed

Indian Head

Franconia Notch

Where the Man in Mountain was before he fell down

We finally found shuffleboard in New England! Though this is all the way in New Hampshire! Girls win!

Lis & Philip Celebration!

JFJ — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:47:30 +0000

We went to San Francisco to celebrate the marriage of our great friends Philip and Alisa! We had an amazing weekend, saw good friends, did a super fun Anchor Steam brewery tour, and got to spend our last day with Shannu and John! And the wedding itself was gorgeous with a party that was an absolute blast afterward!

Wayfinding in VT, NY, NH & Mass

JFJ — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:59:50 +0000

We went on a little weekend trip to do some data collection on campus wayfinding. We hit up Mount Holyoke, Skidmore College and Middlebury. We had a great time seeing some cute little college towns. Also, neither of us had been to Saratoga Springs before and we loved the atmosphere there. We saw some Shakespeare in the park and took some time to walk the main streets after documenting Skidmore. We got ourselves in a bit of a bind finding a place to stay because of the Beer Festival going on in VT, but it all worked out and we ended up in Montpelier for the night. We enjoyed good local brews, but no open breweries (darn festival) this trip.

For Raina:

Yum!

Closed

And we’re off!

JFJ — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:14:44 +0000

We’re sitting in the Harpoon Brewery Taproom at Logan airport, just waiting until time to board. We are super excited! White UFOs for Team USA and the Celtics!

Celtics v. Nets

JFJ — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:55:36 +0000

Another L. To the Nets! It was awful. (104-96). Don’t want to remember it. Drowned our sorrows at Beerworks.

Celtics v. Raptors

JFJ — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:33:23 +0000

We made it to a Friday night win (116-103)!

This was our 6th game (we’ve missed 4 now) and now our WAP is up even farther at 4 and 2. Even better, the Celtics are a respectable 12 and 4.

The game was a bit strange in parts. It was the first time we’ve ever seen “the wave” at the Garden. Not impressed. That is great at Fenway, but weird and out of place at a Celtics game. Maybe OK at Staples, but weird here. And another thing, Sheed is shooting 3s so poorly, but still taking so many, it’s starting to feel the same as when Cassell would just jack them up. But at least there is hope for the future with Sheed that it won’t always feel this way. Tonight we also saw our first huge fight in the balcony with the cops coming to escort the offender out. It actually lasted a LONG time before security got involved. It was a nice introduction for our friend who had never been to an NBA game.

We went to this game with four of our friends from MIT. We had a great time! And, of course, we all went to Beerworks afterwards. But beforehand, the two of us finally made it to the Grand Canal! In order to get so many tickets together just a week before the game, we used StubHub. We had to go to their pick up location wicked early before the game to get the tickets. Apparently that is at the Greatest Bar. Which is not, in fact, the greatest bar. It is SUPER meat head. But we had never been there before and are on a quest to try out new places around the Garden, so we had a drink there after picking up the tickets for the crew. Then feeling emboldened, we continued on and headed to the Grand Canal and had some dinner there. It was great! Really good food. Good ambiance. Good people, both working there and customers.

Trying out Garden Bars (ie Celtics v Magic)

JFJ — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:15:53 +0000

We didn’t feel like shelling out the extra cash to scalp Magic tickets. But, we wanted to still watch the game with other fans near the Garden. So we decided to branch out from our favorite, Boston Beerworks, and give some other Garden local favorites a try. We know that The Fours has historically been a favorite. We went, we tried, it was really, really lame. The food was barely adequate. No one was paying the slightest attention to the game. It is mostly empty. We decided to leave before the second quarter. We had meant to move on to the Grand Canal, another local great place that we had wanted to try for awhile, but we had to walk past Beekworks to get there. The draw was too great. The TVs, the fans, the great food and smells wafting out, the brews! We couldn’t pass it up. Maybe next time we’ll head over to try out the “new” place straight from the T so it doesn’t require passing our favorite place to get there.

So, Beerkworks? Awesome.

Celtics? Not so much.

Another Friday night Home loss (78-83)! The C’s are killing us! That is three Friday night home losses in a row!

Celtics v. Suns

JFJ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:12:13 +0000

Home Game 4. We are 4/4 for attendance.

Loss 1: 110-103.

Our Celtics are now 6 and 1. Undefeated was better, but this isn’t too bad at all!

It was hard to watch in parts, but the Garden crowd went CRAZY – staying in the game with the team.

No pics from tonight’s game. Instead some pictures from Beerworks after the game, toasting our team.

Celtics v. Knicks – Preseason Begins!

JFJ — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:52:20 +0000

And so begins our Celtics season.

1st preseason home game.

Versus the Knicks.

We won.

96-82.

It was nice to be back in the Garden for basketball (we were just there for a Killers concert but it’s not as fun).

We should take a picture of our fridge with all our fun Celtics tickets (and our bummer Game 4, defunct ALDS Red Sox tix). We did go Beerworks after the game and watch baseball play out in our favorite brewery.