Claude_Verret

Well the government shutdown has hit home for me. My team won a government contract last year to develop a new product, and on Tuesday we got the letter ordering us to cease work immediately. We had to furlough all of our contractors and I'm back working on the crappy going nowhere project that I was last year until this gets resolved. I'm so proud of our great leadership in Washington. <_<

$925 on Detroit.

Pretty amazing story, from our old pal Luke DeCock, about the brother of Canes color man Tripp Tracy and his ordeal in Venezuela. http://www.newsobser...cy-was-his.html

A lot of folks afraid of the gotcha stuff apparently...

Let's have 'em... Sabres finish / total points? Sabres leading goal scorer? Sabres points leader? Miller / Vanek fate? Stanley Cup matchup & Champion? Any other predictions you care to throw out there so the rest of us can have some gotcha material to use on you for public ridicule. I'll go first.. Sabres 6th in Atlantic with 79 pts Vanek nets 28 Hodgson with 62 pts. Miller extended, Vanek gone at deadline for picks and prospects Penguins over Kings in 6 Wild prediction: Darcy fleeces another team as someone finally agrees to take Stafford off our hands

If you have Netflix: House Of Cards. Kevin Spacey is great in it.

It's unbelievably tempting, especially after a long day at work...there is the fridge begging me to open the tap before I even walk in the door. However, I'm prepared to give up the taps eventually if need be. I'm trying this route for now and as long as I keep taking pounds off and the doc check ups go ok I'll hope for the best.

I have a beer fridge in my garage with two taps of homebrew going constantly. This is dangerous. I'm not ready to give up my homebrew yet, so my solutions are: 1.) only have 6 oz. juice glasses available next to the fridge so I'm never able to pour a full pint. 2.) only brew session type beers in the 5% and under range. No more imperial stouts or double IPA's on tap for me.

Yes, and with the hindsight of getting Zadarov at 16...damn it would have been nice to have picked this kid up at 8. Hopefully Risto makes it a moot point.

Good stuff. Enjoy the time, he will be in kindergarten before you know it. My son came home from the hospital at three days old to watch the Bills-Steelers game with his dad. You know the one where the Bills were at home playing the Steelers backups with a chance to make the playoffs but still lost? That was the last legit shot the Bills had at making it to the postseason. My son will turn nine this year. Ugghh.

Polyacrylamide or agarose gel electrophoresis? Xiphoid process is nice, but what about coccyx?

Apoptosis is my all time favorite cell biology term, with a close second being ubiquitin.

It was just for a crown and I was worried that it might have been severed but the numbness eventually went away. He told me that he must have nicked the myelin sheath with the tip of the needle.

Last year my dentist hit a nerve when administering novocaine, the left side of my tongue was still numb six months later.

I'm sure I'll be up 5-6 lbs after the Charlotte Oktoberfest on Saturday. A beer festival that goes from 12:30 to 6 pm is unheard of on it's own, but then since I'll be serving my beer at the fest I get to go to the after party from 6:30 to 10:30. It's going to be out of control.

It makes a differrence. I went on the wagon for the whole month of August save one weekend when I had an out of town wedding. Pretty much no beer and eating sensibly for one month and I lost 18 lbs. I'm drinking beer again, but not nearly as much as I was before and I'm down 25 lbs at the almost two month mark.

I agree. One of my good friends knows the head of security for the Canes, and there is no doubt that they still beef up the police presence when the Sabres come to town. Doing that while at the same time antagonizing those same obnoxious fans through scoreboard antics and prick-ish staff and ushers always seemed contradictory and bush league to me, but it is what it is. My neighbor is a Canes season ticket holder and he agrees that the Pittsburgh fans have taken taken the belt from us on the most hated list. A former poster here, Sabretooth73, used to have some pretty epic anti-Pittsburgh rants that I'm sure you'd appreciate. Anyway, I expect the Sabres - Canes thing to only cool more in the coming years with us playing down here less, and with the Canes being in the same division now with the Pens, Flyers and Rangers I expect all those fan bases to surpass the Sabres on your most hated list.

True, I expect a low key affair so I figure it's a good time to bring the 8 and 5 year old to a game.

I really enjoy the Aviator beers, I like to stop by their tasting room in the old train depot in Fuquay on the odd Saturday afternoon Home Depot run. Have you been to the Aviator Smokehouse? It's top notch BBQ I'll be there with the wife and kids, so no raping, pillaging or baby eating for me...................this time.

I was disappointed to miss the Hamburg Oktoberferst this year. For the previous three years it has coincided with the Bills home opener and by extension our Hamburg pub crawl on Saturday night....as if the 10 or 11 bars we hit before the Oktoberfest isn't enough. What did they have? I see on their website they have a wheat and a black ipa, two styles that don't excite me much, but I'd be eager to try their IPA and saison.

It's great to see the WNY region catching on to the craft beer craze. When I moved to NC 11 years ago there were maybe 3 local craft breweries in the Trangle region, there has to be at least 15 now. Here are two new Buffalo projects I've recently read about that I'll be excited to try when I'm back in town. Resurgence Brewing Hamburg Brewing Company

Yes and I'd say for the first two weeks of this season he has looked like an above average NFL cornerback, a very pleasant surprise.

Yep, as bad as EJ and the o-line looked, when McKelvin went down early our goose was cooked.

Metallica: One. They played it live on Howard Stern this morning. What an awesome song.

Actually the wet hopped beer isn't limited to a Randall presentation and you can get fresh or wet hopped beers from quite a few craft breweries. The wet hopped beers are only limited to being brewed obviously at the time of hop harvest. I've had the ones from Sierra Nevada and Great Divide and they're excellent. http://thefourfirkin...ype.php?id=1817