PDX Brew Flight May 2012

BVRtun Brewing's beer flight! From left to right: PowerMove Pale Ale; Butter my Scotch Brown; Wheaties for Champions, and La Primera Cerveza!

PDX Brew Flight

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PDX Brew Flight May 2012 is nearly underway! Stay up to date with today's events here at http://danielkoza.blogspot.com and on Twitter with @kozadaniel (and #PDXbrewflight).......stay tuned!!!

Soundtrack of My Morning: Manchester by Kishi Bashi

Listen: Manchester by Kishi Bashi

The strings fluttering under your feet you float amidst the leaves and blooms of spring.  Over the treetops and play grounds of your child hood you can almost see yourself.  Down the slide, upon the swings, and the blurring merry-go-round your knees buckle under the weight of those you've carried along your same path.  Don't be shy those same loves are there to pick you up and bandage your fleeting spirit.  Though at first glance this story may appear cliché or common, don't you worry, it is the most unique story ever told.  The life and emotions are the most real and should never be brushed away nor forgotten.  Feel alive and fling yourself to the gusts taking you to new heights.

Song of the Day: Black Crow by Greylag

Check these guys out:  http://www.greylagmusic.com/

Kazakhstan Story #1: At Least She Laughed

If stepping off the plane on to the tarmac in Almaty, Kazakhstan wasn't strange enough with the militaristic guards all over the place and an entourage of vehicles waiting at the base of the stairs, the brief but ever-so embarassing interaction with the lovely airline transfer agent, Laura, made the 5 hour layover memorable enough. Stepping up to the transfer agent in order to be approved to enter the international terminal, I kindly greeted the lovely Laura with a smile and "Hello" and the rest of the dialogue went like this:

Laura: "Dehli?" (indiscernible to me)
Daniel: "Huh?" (so absolutely confused what she just said)
Laura: "Dehli?" (indiscernible...still)
Daniel: "Daniel?" (was she just saying my name?)
Laura: (laughs) "Dehli?" (gah I am an idiot...did I not get it right?)
Daniel: "OH! Day! Yes, today." (crickets.......)
Laura: "Luggage?" (are you serious? not again...)
Daniel: "Lunch?" (please tell me I am right this time...fingers crossed)
Laura: (begins to laugh out loud and puts her head and hands to the desk and just looks up and smiles) "Luggage?"
Daniel: "OH! Luggage! Ha! Oh I am so sorry. No. I don't have any luggage." (I really am losing it aren't I)
Laura: (laughs) "Here's your ticket. Just wait over there until we call you."

...15 minutes later they call the passengers for Dehli. I had still not understood that she had been saying Dehli until she and the security guard look at our tickets and say that we are going to Bangkok; as we defeatedly begin to walk away they must have deemed this embarassment enough for us as they let us enter the international terminal.

So as the journey continues, and now in Thailand, there are sure to be so many more moments of complete and utter confusion, but I guess that is part of makes all of this worth it yeah?