Turkey Day
Today is Thanksgiving and the original plan of the day was for my brother, father and me to go mountain biking, but upon waking up, it was raining and just super gross outside, so we decided against going anywhere.
This morning has been pretty lazy. Laura is talking to my father about her job and showing him the software that her company works with. Recently, Laura submitted a retooled version of my father's resume to her company in hopes that we can get my father a different job. Currently he's working on putting together a training program for new hires, but he would really like to be working in a more tech based field. My father is very similar to myself in the fact that he's very comfortable working on computers, but he's not a programmer at all. According to HR, they are going to be giving him a call, but as of last Thursday (today is Thursday) he has yet to hear back from them. i figure that he'll hear something on Monday, well...that's the hope.
This coming week is the last week for Laura to study for the LSAT before she takes the plunge and actually takes the real test. She's been scoring around a 170 on her practice tests, so hopefully she can do that well when she takes the actual test. Because she's applying so late (December/January), she has to score on the upper tier of applications in order to be accepted. We both have our fingers crossed, but I know that she's going to do fine.
Last weekend, Erik and I got together to bottle up the beer that we had sitting around the house. We have a smoked porter and a regular porter that is now all bottled and almost ready for consumption. I have a feeling that the smoked porter isn't going to be that great, because when we bottled it, it had a funny smell to it, but when we had a taste, it wasn't so bad, so hopefully it was just the fact that it was sitting in the carboy with all the spend yeast and hops and that's what was causing the issue. Once again I left the beer in the primary fermenter for much longer than it should have been and I think that's the difference. Any beer that we have brewed where I have been diligent and moved the beer out of the primary after fermentation, the beer has been decent, but when we leave it in there, all hell breaks loose. So we'll see.. if it's bad, it's bad. Nothing lost. I am just hoping that the porter that we brewed is going to be tasty. I am half way tempted to crack it open tonight at Thanksgiving dinner, but I don't know if it's worth doing because it's yet to even have a week in the bottle. We'll see.
After the Holiday, I'm going to eventually have to make my way into the HR office and let the head HR person know that I'm planning on moving out of NYC. The plan that I had originally had, prior to the merger, was to move up with my brother outside of Boston, but I doubt that is going to happen now. With the merger, I have a whole lot more incentive to stay with my job until at least July. As of now, the most obvious option for me is to move back in with my parents in their home in Upstate, NY. While moving in with my parents is a poor option, it will help to save massive amounts of money, thus enabling me to possibly move elsewhere in the country with ease and possibly even purchase a piece of property. Who knows. At this point, I am really just waiting until the beginning of January to really make the final call as to where I'm going to be going.
Laura and I are about to head out to town to gather up some food stuffs for Turkey Day.