Brush Valley Brewer

Breakfast was a bowl of Kellogg’s Raisin Bran (1⅜ oz) with 2% Milk (8 oz), a Dannon Mixed Berries Yogurt (6 oz), a Minute Maid Orange Juice (4 oz), a slice of quiche, a cheese danish, and a cup of coffee.

We just had a morning break and I had a Columbo blueberry yogurt (8 oz).

Lunch was a turkey sandwich, some macaroni salad, some potato salad, and a can of Sprite.

We just had another break and I had a can of Coke.

In case you have not guessed yet, a conference is an excuse to eat like a pig. Oink!

Yet another break and more food. I had a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and a maraschino cherry.

We walked to the Cap City Diner for dinner — about three miles each way — where I had a knife and fork chili dog and two glasses of Columbus Brewing Company Pale Ale.

Breakfast was a bowl of scrambled eggs, three slices of toasted Italian bread, a glass of orange juice, two cups of coffee, and a slice of blueberry pie.

I went to the ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop at Ohio State today. I will be here until Wednesday. I drove out with three other guys from the office and we stopped at Wendy’s for lunch. I had a large chili with cheese, a small French fries, and a small Coke (total 680 calories, 160 from fat).

After the I2JT sessions, I went and worked out in the Hotel Fitness Center. After that, we went down to the brewery district and went to The Claddagh Irish Pub (seriously broken Web site) on 585 South Front Street. I had a bowl of their seafood chowder, and the largest plate of shepherd’s pie I have ever seen. There must have been a pound of ground meat in it. I only managed to eat about two-thirds of it. I also had a 10 ounce glass of Smithwick’s and half of another 10 ounce glass of Fuller’s ESB. They were both really tasty, I would have finished the Fuller’s, but I was so stuffed from the shephers’s pie that I could not find room for it.

This guy oversees the brewery district.

This sign hangs over the door to the pub we visited.

After today’s I2JT sessions I went to work out in the fitness center at the Holiday Inn we are staying at. They had a quite nice, all-in-one exercise machine that included a surprising number of quality exercises. Here is what I did:

1. Treadmill: 5 minutes @ 4 mph (warm-up)
2. Reverse-grip pull down: 12@80, 10@90, 8@100, 4@110, 8@80
3. Shoulder press: 12@50, 10@60, 8@70, 6@80, 12@50
4. Compound Row: 12@50, 10@60, 8@70, 6@80, 12@50
5. Pec Fly: 12@60, 10@70, 8@80, 12@90

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a slice of focaccia, and two cups of coffee. I weighed 157 pounds.

Today was a work day at the CSA. We harvested garlic — 1,100 bulbs worth. For lunch we had a garden salad, zucchini parmesan, corkscrew pasta with pesto, green beans with roasted red pepper vinaigrette, and blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. When we got home, Gretchen and I had a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale.

The cobbler was so good that we bought blueberries to make a pie.

Gretchen made lo mein for dinner using red cabbage and sweet red onions from the CSA. For dessert we had a slice of the blueberry pie. We washed it down with a glass of Bella Sera Pinot Grigio.

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a glass of orange juice, and two cups of coffee. I weighed 155 pounds.

I went over to the HUB at lunch and had Panda Express mandarin chicken with chow mein noodles and a fortune cookie.

Never forget a friend,

especially if he owes you.

Lucky Numbers 1, 4, 7, 17, 24, 29

Dinner was a garden salad and two slices of a new focaccia recipe along with two glasses of Bella Sera Pinot Grigio.

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee.

We had a training seminar off campus today. We ended up getting chinese at Wegemans. I had lo mein, sesame chicken, a rib, and an egg roll and a bottle of Sobe Dragon.

After work I had a bottle of Saranac Pale Ale.

Dinner was a pan fried, roasted potatoes, carrots, and onions, grilled zucchini, green beans, and a glass of Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna.

• 10.531 Gallons
• $1.899/Gallon
• $20.00
• 290.1 Miles
• 27.5 Miles/Gallon
• 7¢/Mile
• 11 Days

Breakfast was a bowl of cold cereal with banana slices, a glass of orange juice, and three cups of coffee.

At the office I had a Nature Valley Granola Bar.

Lunch was a garden salad and a banana.

In the afternoon I had a gingerbread cookie.

Dinner was also a garden salad, two slices of garlic bread, and two glasses of Bolla Sangiovese Di Romagna. It was my Mother-in-law’s birthday, so Gretchen made her a spice cake with seven minute frosting.