With yesterday being my 21st birthday and all that, I decided that it was time to experience Town Hall for the first time. I had heard about the place many times, from many people, and I needed to see for myself if it lived up to all the word-of-mouth hype that’s been built up about it. So Dan Ficker and I went over there after having dinner at Chipotle (if you went and got a burrito yesterday or the day before, you could go today and get one for free!) and some other division members joined us later. Dan went ahead and recommended what he liked, and I ended up starting with an Oatmeal Stout (for those of you not familiar with the home-brewed selection at Town Hall, it’s kinda like a Guinness).

Friends, that was some good beer.

We ended up staying for about three hours, cause some people couldn’t make it right away, and that gave me time to also try their Scotch Ale, which was fantastic as well. To top it all off (pun intended) our server gave me one for free, and a couple of the guys chipped in for the other one.

This Easter weekend, John and I went back to our parents’ house in Hastings (or “The ‘Stings” as I like to call it). On Friday night, we played around with MythTV, which is a linux-based — and thus free — home media convergence service that my Dad has been working to get running to the point where it can replace the DVD player, as well as act as a TiVo-like service for recording old movies off of TCM. We spent the rest of the weekend relaxing, and on Sunday night, went to the community meeting at River Ridge. I was very pleased to realize that this is how we do Easter in the People of Praise; we spend most of the day with our individual families, and then at night, we all come together as a big extended family, and celebrate our savior’s resurrection. Bill Wacker gave a remarkable talk on the story of Jesus’ resurrection, and why it would have been very difficult for anyone to believe at the time, given the circumstances. Praise the Lord!