No, I’m not Jewish. I just happen to work for a very Jewish company. One of the benefits of this is that I get to celebrate Rosh Hashanah by not going to work tomorrow. Not that it matters as things are pretty busy at the moment and I’ll be working from home tomorrow anyways. But it’s a nice change of pace. I’ve been having trouble focusing at the office lately. I don’t know why, exactly, but I think changing the setting up will help me be productive tomorrow. My current plan is to get some breakfast at one of the many fabulous local diners then head to a local coffee shop with wi-fi, plop down with my laptop and itty-bitty Wacom tablet and get down to bid-ness. I’m always fascinated by the world that exists from 9-6 as it’s something I only get mere glimpses of during my lunch break. In L.A. especially it seems like there are a lot of people who have copious amounts of free time and I’ve got to wonder what the hell it is they’re doing! Are they unemployed? Self-employed? Trust-fund children?
Until then, I’m celebrating my bisected work week with a little malted beverage action. At first I was thinking some Oregon honey beer would be appropriate, seeing as apples and honey are a big thing for this holiday. But instead I decided to crack open a bottle of He’Brew Pomegranate Ale that I’ve had sitting in my fridge since the Beer Cruise in August. It’s not bad. A decent bodied ale with the pomegranates making a very distinctive appearance, maybe a little too heavy-handedly. Or rather, if you’re looking for the pomegranate taste it’s definitely there, but it exists more as an afterthought such that the taste doesn’t really lend itself to the rest of the flavor. It was still pretty refreshing. Not altogether memorable, but ’tis the season.
