Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hold on to the night, hold on to the memories

The guys took me out for a birthday celebration at a raman house. It was really f-n good. Great drink food.
I never figured I would make it to 31. I always thought that I would get hit by a car or something tragic, some result of my own stupidity. Either way I feel really lucky and am pretty happy with things.
That being said, there is no way in hell, that I can stay at this brewery for another month. I bottled again today from 8 till 5, and then cleaned kegs from 5 till 8:30. The main bottling guy quit today because of an argument with bucho-san(the owner), or the bastard as everyone seems to call him. I think I can afford to stay in a hostel for a couple of weeks before my brother comes.

ps  I had a special birthday celebration with myself this morning when I woke up.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What are you holding on to? Maybe I don't want to know that. Do they give you free beer or just smack your ass and call you names in Japanese?

Anonymous said...

yo joey....i found your blog.

just sitting here eating a big mac washing it down with a coors light plan on driving the hummer over to the strip mall and buy some more stuff for my foreclosed house, don't you miss america?

happy birthday buddy

the reading crew sends their love, can't wait for your triumphant return so we can drink beer and eat toccinelli's pizza and hear all about it

till then
dutch

Unknown said...

BE-DIA! Happy Birthday buddy. Sounds like they're working you like a newly captured pirate slave over there. Maybe you should stage a mutiny. Work is not the same without you. The smiles fade quickly and the laughter sounds forced and hollow. We impatiently await the return of Beddia-San.

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Joe. Keep your nose to the grindstone. Just think, come payday you will get time and a half on your overtime. Let's see... 1.5 X 0 Yen = 0 Yen.
Doh!

Marc