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Coors Banquet, new decade, same shit

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One of the things that’s made me laugh as I’ve come back to this blog and looked at some of the older posts, is how 10 years later, as much as things have changed, they’re also the same in a lot of ways. For instance, one of the posts that caught my eye was from May 11, 2016, I did a YouTube review of Coors Banquet beer back when I was trying to do a lot of beer reviews. What made me laugh is I had just picked up a 6 pack of it after not drinking it for YEARS, easily 2 or 3 years. I probably had these stashed away somewhere at that time, but I took pictures of them to send to my brothers.   My grandfather was a bit of a hoarder, and one of the things he collected was matchbooks. He had HUNDREDS if not thousands of them. Of course this was one of my favorites. The Coors branding has always seemed frozen in time to me, somewhere in the 70s or maybe early 80s. I look at that matchbook and think about what it must have felt like to spark up a Marlboro with these as you crack open a...
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Missed the 2026 DC Auto Show

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 If you've followed any of my social or YouTube channel, you'd know that one of the highlights of my year is attending the Washington Auto Show every January. Well, during the  one  week the show was in town, we had a snowstorm, and it was an already busy week at work. I had the week planned  perfectly,  including a day to go to the eye doctor and then the car show. Unfortunately, I couldn't change everything around and ended up missing the show. So, the  one  sure video I make per year for YouTube won't be happening.    Maire suggested attending another show, and I may, but the new car shows are different than a lot of other shows. I looked into the Philly auto show, and even the Chicago auto show, I never realized that they’re all clustered around the same time of year. The Philly show was only a week later so I couldn’t make that happen in time. Maybe I’ll get to Carlisle or just set a goal to attend a few different Cars & Coffee e...
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Welcome to a new decade!

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 It's been a WHILE! The year, 2026. Gone are the blog days, and even vlog days, we are now in the thick of the "short form" era. At the start of this year there were online jokes that 2026 was going to be 2016 all over again. The mannequin challenge along with other memes and challenges of the time resurged for a little while. I brushed it off, but as I was looking through my Google Drive and came across this... I think I may embrace this. I think I'm going to bring back blogging for 2026! I'd love to bring back vlogging too, but being realistic, I just don't think I have the time to do all of that, although I do love it. So even though it's the end of Feb, welcome to 2026, the year of the BLOG!! 
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End Of 2016 Update

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Haven't posted here in awhile, but that doesn't mean I'm not up to anything! Maire and I have done our usual fall beer fest, managed to work a few more bike rides in, been to a number of breweries, and biggest of all, went on a real vacation!! If you don't already follow me on Instagram, you can see pics of all those adventures there, check the main page for a link!
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Rail Trail Adventures!

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Maire and I finally got up to western MD to do some running around! If you're following me on social media, and you should be..... (links to the right!) you'd know that Maire and I both ended up with new bikes this summer! That probably should have been a post on it's own here, but long story short, we were shopping for a new bike for me, ended up finding a 2-fer special so Maire got a MUCH needed upgrade as well!! So this is a late post, the fun happened the weekend of 8/5. Now it has been a LONG time since we went biking on the rail trail. We couldn't really remember how long it had been..... But fear not, Facebook was there to make sure we knew that.... What's funny is it happened  to be 8 years ago to the day!! On the timehop ripoff that Facebook has integrated, right before we left I see pics from 8/5/ 2008!! I couldn't believe it..... What are the ODDS!? Here are the pics from then!!  I can't believe how YOUNG we both look!.... Or how much HAIR...
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MK1 Ford Focus Window Regulator

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I didn't end up getting any video of this job because it was done 100% under duress..... So for awhile now.... like months,  my drivers side window has been having trouble going up and down and making some cracks and pops in the process. I kept telling myself it probably just needs some lube on the tracks, it'll be fine, I'll get to it when I get to it. Well one day while trying to lower it, after some louder than usual noises it gave the final pop and fell down into the abyss..... It was a Sunday morning, I was dropping Maire off at the Metro station to go somewhere. I was going to do some things I wanted to do that morning, but in that second, my plans had been changed..... First stop, 7-11 for some much needed energy drink, this was no longer the casual coffee sipping morning I was hoping for, I needed to snap into ACTION.... Energy drink in hand, windows down on one of the hottest mornings we'd had to date, I bee lined back to the condo to tear down and hope for the...
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2016 Carlisle Ford Nationals

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I'll be updating this with better pics and vid as I slowly go through and edit things, but I'm still buzzing off of the excitement from the event and had to get something up! Enjoy this quick slideshow I threw together!! EDIT 6/13/16: Here's a second video I put together of some of the show festivities!
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