At the Office
Summer Brew
Date: March 20th, 2002 |
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In preparation for our expected line of visitors this spring / summer we have started brewing beer again. This is one is called Summer Brew.
Here’s Chris syphoning a brew mixture out of the fermenting jug into a bucket. We will then wash the jug and fill it with beer again. [...]
[read more]Chicken in NYC
Date: March 18th, 2002 | No Comments
I know everything is more expensive in New York City, but this is getting ridiculous. A mate of mine, Brad Wilson, is a professional photographer in NYC – he recently had a shoot. He had to photograph a chicken. The chicken cost $400 to rent for the day!! Heck, I can [...]
[read more]Ducks win again
Date: March 17th, 2002 | No Comments
If anyone cares…Oregon Ducks Win and we are off to the Blarney Stone for a pre-St. Patty’s Day celebration. Like a bunch of typical Yanks, we head to an Irish pub on St. P’s Day.
[read more]Weather in Eugene
Date: March 16th, 2002 | 2 comments
Okay, so today was a crazy day as far as the weather was concerned. I looked out of the lobby from work today and no kidding in a 4 hour period I saw clouds, sun, rain, snow, sun.
We all went to a fake Irish bar called the Blarney Stone for a Guinness and [...]
Best Part of the Job
Date: March 15th, 2002 | No Comments
This was so cool. We were just hitting lunchtime, when the doorbell rang. Sonya and Debra live in Eugene and are leaving on a roadtrip for Utah. They found out about BootsnAll while researching, and as they looked around the site realized that we’re in Eugene too. So they stopped by. We talked about Utah [...]
[read more]Ready for World Cup
Date: March 15th, 2002 | No Comments
With the World Cup coming up – I am getting excited for the Biggest Sporting Event on the Globe. Check out this hilarious video on English Hooliganism. Very funny as it plays off the a stereotype that made us laugh it stiches at the office. Thanks to Mo Valentine for sending it [...]
[read more]Oregon Ducks
Date: March 14th, 2002 | No Comments
Just watched the Ducks cruise to an 81-62 victory over Montana in the NCAA basketball competition. Good to see the local team do well. The city has more of a buzz about it when they have a sports team to cheer.
Sean set up a yahoo picking competition. I see from some of the first [...]
Great travel related story
Date: March 13th, 2002 | No Comments
Gotta few minutes? Read this story about life and death in Prague…The Quest for the Glorious Life – Prague, Czech Republic
[read more]Rain
Date: March 12th, 2002 | No Comments
It has just finished raining here in Eugene and judging by the state of the rose bushes outside, spring is still aways off.
[read more]Around the world for $1295
Date: March 12th, 2002 | No Comments
The guys and I were just sitting here and looking at the specials on around the world air fares. $1295US for NY – London – surface to Paris – Delhi – HK – NY ..this is an unbelievable fare and really makes me want to go. Go around the world for $1300 bucks. [...]
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It's been awhile since we had a BootsnAll member stop by the office. However, thank to a recent post on the message boards wondering where the Boots Crew were these days, we managed to arrange lunch with Bideshi, aka Mike (blue shirt below).
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