Wednesday, November 24, 2010

We left the apartment in the morning, Mike had to get to work, the other end of town, the old part of town where all the factories used to be. We got some food for the day, I was going to spend the day with him at his work or just around the general area. For lunch we had some of those pizza buns, the thin buns covered in cheese, these ones had tomato sauce which was a great bonus. With the some muffins and some drink. The job Mike has to do on Sunday is to look after a Sports Gallery/shop aptly named thesportgallery.com. Also sort out some posters and covers from old sports magazines for clients. The day is mostly spent behind a desk on a computer, with, I would imagine the odd customer or two. When I was in there, all we did was play zoikz and tried to watch Raging Bull but I couldn't get into it. Whilst I was about, I only saw about five customers, but a couple were interested in photos and covers worth quite a large sum of money. To be honest, it was quite boring just sitting there all day long. Mike was telling me about this micro brewery around the corner, it was quite famous and had a very good reputation. I went on a mission to get some beer. I really wanted to try as many Canadian beers as I could. I had a bad time, beer wise in the states, most of the beers were really bad. Only a few would make the list for me. So far I didn't mind the Canadian beers I'd had. The Mill Street Brewery had a wide variety of different beers, from light ales to dark coffee porters. I had already had one of their lightest, the Organic ale. It was okay, possibly a little bland but would make a great session beer. I wanted to have some tasters, unfortunately they only came in set samples, I didn't want all of the samples, I only wanted to try a select few. I asked one of the waiters, he came over and said he couldn't give me a mixed selection but I could have a free tasting sample of all the ones I wanted to try any way. That was great, not only was I getting to try most of the beer, I could do it for free. I liked a couple and bought a pint, then tasted some more, and bought another pint or two. Annoyingly I ran out of money and they wouldn't take my card. Luckily I had the exact amount in change. I settled the bill and went back to the gallery to meet up with Mike before we had to go home. After Mike finished work, we got the bus back to Markham. I was rather drunk now, I had been drinking at the brewery for a couple of hours and found one of my favourite Canadian beers so far, 'Mill St brewery Coffee Porter'. It is a fantastic beer, has so much depth and flavour, has great balance and after one you want more and more. It does everything a good beer should do, or at least what I would expect to do. When we got back, we ate dinner and then did the usual bit of TV watching. I had got into a proper routine now. Watching the some music show until 12.30am when 'King of the Hill' starts on another channel, watching that, then putting it on the food network to watch 'Diners, Drive ins and Dives'. DDD has now become my favourite programme on TV, it is so good, it always makes me hungry. Kevin even joined me in this routine, to take some time out of his music work. Then I would go to sleep pretty later and wake up around 10/11am.

the sport gallery http://www.thesportgallery.com/

the mill st brewery http://www.millstreetbrewery.com/

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