Monday. That means all-you-can-eat dim sum style pizza tonight at Goat Hill Pizza! Basically, that means they serve all their regular pizza varieties, but they walk around like dim sum servers, offering little slices to the salivating throng.

And pizza, of course, means… beer!

Beer lovers, check out RateBeer.com, the creation and pet project of one Joseph Tucker. I interviewed him once, for a job at Vodafone. He was tremendously qualified – far too qualified to work for the likes of me – and he seemed like a super nice guy. He told me he created the site simply as a place where he and a few friends could talk about their favorite beers, and now…

“RateBeer is widely recognized as the most accurate and most-visited source for beer information. RateBeer is an independent world site for craft beer enthusiasts and is dedicated to serving the entire craft beer community through beer education, promotion and outreach.”
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A couple of weeks ago, I went sailing with Mike Casey for the fourth time. We had a nice steady, strong breeze that never reached anything like the gales we experienced on previous trips. This time we had a few skippers and, like every other trip, multiple Mikes. See the pics in the extended entry.
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I bought a kayak yesterday (mine’s red – better pic coming soon) so that I could ride herd on the Alcatraz Invitational. My friend Tracy swam it in an amazing 51 minutes.