ok then

a kegerator it is.

203 made reference this weekend to the reason for my return to beer drinking. allow me to post the details for all the world (for small values of "the world") to enjoy and ignore.

Once Upon A Time, I was fat. And I drank beer. Then, I stopped drinking beer. Then I got less fat. I didn't start drinking beer again because I didn't want to be fat. Also, I was reading a book about home brewing but it sounded like too much trouble.

Then, much later, I met 203, and she was always talking about how after our hikes she'd go home and have a beer. Now, the only reason I ever bothered to hike with 203 is because I liked the way she looked from behind, which is to say, she looks fantastic in short hiking pants (sadly, I never managed to tell her this until *after* she'd moved away). Anyhow, an thought formed in my mind, and it grew into an idea, and blossomed into a notion, and then became a plan: i would brew my own beer, on account of 203 drank beer and still had a nice behind.

So shortly thereafter, I started again with the beer drinking, and then the beer brewing, and then the hard liquor, and finally, the cohabitation. Now I'm fat and I'm going to get a kegerator so I can drink even more, and then I'm getting married. So much for that.

Same goes for the ice cream. Ice cream doesn't make 203 flabby but it decreases my bench press. I don't get it.

Back in the old hiking days, 203 would say she liked beer but not hard liquor. Back then, I drank more whisky than beer. Now she's more of a scotch coh-nuh-soor than I am, and I've moved on to wine, by which I mean, every Friday night I'm forced to consume half a bottle so we can have a nice sit-down dinner. But the point is, neither of us drinks now what we said we drank back during the days of Getting To Know You, and if that's not bait and switch, I don't know what is.