The Surly Brewery was cool. It was also very crowded. Unlike the Yazoo taproom, the Surly brewery is not open every weekend, but they happened to be open while I was in town. Now imagine that every Yazoo customer that shows in the 12 hours per week that the taproom is open all showed up in one 3-hour period on a Saturday afternoon. I waited in line about 10 minutes just to get inside. The growler refill line was a bit out of control, too. I went on the tour, but it essentially consisted of allowing everyone to go back to the brewing/canning area and then they explained the brewing process. I am somewhat familiar with how to brew beer, and I was stuck in the back of the crowd, so I explored on my own some and then headed back out to get my samples and some goods. The Surly brewery does not sell pints but they give away samples. So upon entering the facility, they check your ID and then give you a wristband if you are of age. Each wristband contains 6 tear-off tabs, each of which is good for a 5 ounce sample. Do the math. Even if they kept track of people's samples and made sure that you gave them a tab for each beer, 30 ounces is not too shabby. I sampled each of their 3 brews and then decided that my drive across a town I don't know would be better executed by cutting myself off there. One of the beers was a coffee blender beer that had a strong coffee taste. It wasn't exactly a stout, but was very good.

My air travel lately seems to be plagued with bad luck. Not the kind where we crash into a mountain or anything like that, but the kind where my flight gets delayed. There was a party back at Matt's house (sort of in my honor) that I was trying to get back to, but my flight was delayed a couple of hours for mechanical issues. So I finally made it back to town and got to Matt's a little after 10. Hung out for a couple hours and then headed home to crash. Sunday was a chilled out day of relaxing, watching a movie, etc.

So, the job thing is still up in the air. I will update about that once things are more certain. As it is, I want to play my cards a little closer than this here internet affords.