Last Weekend: A New Computer, Soccer, and Beer

I finally pulled the trigger on a new laptop computer last weekend. A week before, I visited Micro Center (https://www.microcenter.com/) in Brentwood, where I browsed among its extensive selection of laptops. There was one particular model I was most interested in, an Aspire 5 from Acer (https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/home), which has greater capabilities than the older Acer Aspire I have had for the last eight years. During my lunch break on Friday (26 July), I went onto Micro Center's website and reserved an Aspire 5. It was waiting for me when I came to the store after work. After paying for the computer, I took it home and began to set it up. It is still a work in progress, but I really like this new laptop so far. Not only is it more capable than my old one (particularly in having twice the memory and a solid state hard drive), but also that it's slightly smaller and lighter. I will appreciate that when I have to lug it around.

I spent much of Saturday at home getting my files (documents and images especially) transferred from my old laptop to my new one, via my external hard drive.

That night, I was at World Wide Technology Soccer Park (https://www.saintlouisfc.com/soccerpark) to cheer on Saint Louis FC (https://www.saintlouisfc.com/) in USL Championship (https://www.uslsoccer.com/usl-championship) play against Bethlehem Steel FC. As usual, it began at the St. Louligans (http://stlouligans.com/) tailgate in the parking lot. They had a nachos buffet bar for dinner, which was good. I selected both pork rinds and nacho chips, which I topped with ground beef and sour cream. All washed down with Schlafly (http://www.schlafly.com/) Ale d'Or from the tailgate trailer tap.

We then marched into the stadium for the match. It was a good night for the home side, as Saint Louis FC won, 3-nil, their first win in league play in three months. Hopefully, this will be the start of a comeback effort for our club.

Yesterday (28 July) afternoon was spent in downtown Clayton. I met with others from Single in the City Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/STLSingleInTheCity/) for Beer Geek Fest at Craft Beer Cellar (https://clayton.craftbeercellar.com/), a tasting event with beers from 28 breweries around the country. We first met next door at The Posh Nosh Deli (http://www.poshnoshdeli.com/), where I had lunch: The Rebecca sandwich with chips and soda. Then, we began to sample away. It was most interesting to try out different beers from craft breweries located around the St. Louis area and from around the country. I had samples from 23 beers in about 2.5 hours there, all of which I logged onto the Untappd (https://untappd.com/) app on my smartphone. It was fun chatting with the others in the group while we talked about the beers we sampled or wanted to sample.

After spending time at the event, I walked to World News Ltd (https://newsstands.cmac.ws/world-news-ltd-clayton/1800/), where I bought two magazines, then walked to the nearby Starbucks (https://www.starbucks.com/) for an iced coffee while I read the magazines. After that, I walked to my car and drove home.

Later.