Astoria is often called “Little Athens” thanks to the large number of old Greek people standing around in the streets. But, Astoria seems to have a pretty significant Czech and Slovakian population. This Memorial Day Weekend, the band got together and the Czech-Slovak festival took over our local Astoria Beer Garden.
$14 pitchers, $10 Kielbasa [...]
Audrey graduated on Monday from Columbia. I was able to take half the day off at work and celebrated by eating tasty private school hors d’oeuvres and drinking a large number of their mimosas.
Audrey is now searching for a job in order to complete her transition from a liability to an asset! haha. [...]
I had heard great things but had never been to Santa Monica prior to Sunday. I didn’t have anything planned before heading to the airport, so I decided to do a bit of exploring. The trip had two purposes… I wanted to see the city and I wanted one last quality Mexican meal [...]
So after leaving Jeff, I headed north for lunch with some friends in the city John Irvine built. After a nice lunch, I went on to Westminster for a little business meeting. After I parked the Hyundai, I decided I wanted to get a drink out of my trunk. So I popped the trunk and [...]
Saturday started off with me waking up and heading down from Orange to Oceanside to spend just over an hour with my brother-in-law, the infamous Jeff Stephens.
For those of you who don’t know Hastar/Mr. Stephens, he’s got a decent case of ADD and is a Gulf War veteran. The jury is out on Gulf [...]
I made it back to Astoria last night after 3 jam-packed days in southern California and it was awesome! I saw friends, family, fired guns and power-slid a Hyundai in multiple residential areas. I’ve got three posts in mind that I’ll write at some point tonight and tomorrow. But for now, thanks to Coldie, Frau [...]
The Crocodile Lounge is a great place that I don’t like going to. Why you ask? Well, they do have a pretty good selection of draft beers and a great environment with bartenders that are not total dicks. But, for every $6 you spend on a pint of beer, they give you [...]
I’ve been talking about making my way back to the endless desert/freeway/parking lot known as Southern California for a few months now. Basically I was trying to work it to be a business trip and therefore more or less free for me… but that wasn’t working out and I don’t really care to wait [...]
This is going to be where the search and other helpful things go. Patience baldies!