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Starkweather Beer Company

 When I moved back to Madison to attend law school in 1987, we moved to a crappy little apartment near the banks of Starkweather Creek on the unfashionable east side.  Today, the east side is booming, and one of the newer brewpubs is called Starkweather Beer Company. It was Saint Pat's Day.  While Guinness is a decent light-bodied stout, I opted for Starkweather's dry Irish Stout, named "Jamestown Jackdaw." Coming in at 5.9 ABV, it had a malty chewable backbone.  It's a new favorite stout for me.  Julia had Late Winter Haze, a New England IPA that didn't have as much fruitiness as she likes in a hazy.  It was still well-executed. We walked down the street to the Harmony Bar, where Julia enjoyed a complete corn beef and cabbage dinner.  I opted for the Reuben sandwich.  Mine was washed down with an Edmund Fitzgerald porter from Great Lakes Brewing.  Julia enjoyed her Chaos Pattern IPA from 3 Sheeps Brewing.  Both are great beers. Justin update:   After a long h

I Gotta Move Out of This Dorm

 

Julia and I planned to head up north for a few weeks.  A friend's son was getting married tomorrow in Ashland, Wisconsin.  The plan was to stay at a small campground on Lake Superior for a week after the wedding and then head up into Michigan without a plan for another two weeks. 

Covid struck the wedding party, and before you know it, the wedding was cancelled on very short notice.   Then Justin called.  It seems that he misunderstood his summer dorm move-out day and needed to be moved today instead of the end of August.  He appealed to his housing authorities for an extension, but there was no joy.  Justin got to move out of his dorm now.  

The thing about complete disability is that you collect more and more stuff, especially of the heavy, expensive medical kind.  And let me remind you that Justin is not able to participate in this process.  It was a bear of a day, and Justin's motorized hospital bed did its best to kill Julia and I today in the struggle to move it a few hundred yards across the road and up an elevator to a different dorm room, which was down a long and winding hallway.  

With any luck, this will not be Justin's last move this year. He is ready to take a break from college and move to the Madison area.  Justin found a roommate and a new apartment that he can afford.  The caregiver piece of the puzzle is also looking promising.   The building won't be completed until October 1st.  Lots of balls up in the air to juggle, including some governmental red tape, but there is blue sky emerging amongst the clouds for Justin and for us.  We would love to have him closer to home and still living his best life as an independent adult. 



Comments

greg said…
I think I need new glasses! I read that Justin was ready to move to the Manhattan area. Whaaat!!!
John said…
Compared to Whitewater (pop. 15k), Madison metro (pop. 680k) will seem like Manhattan to Justin.
Anonymous said…
Congrats on your bed wrangling. I've heard those motorized ones can get vicious.

Great tune! Thanks!

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