Happy Hour Before a Most Frigid Night

Right after work last night (29 January), I drive to The Monocle (https://www.themonoclestl.com/) a lounge in the Grove neighborhood of St. Louis. This hosted a happy hour for the Sex Positive St. Louis Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/Sex-Positive-St-Louis/). The lounge was pretty full when I arrived, but I was able to get a beer--the Single Speed blonde ale from 4 Hands Brewing Company (http://4handsbrewery.com/)--and some free popcorn. I also was able to chat with a few people there, including Kendra, one of Sex Positive St. Louis' organizers, and with Brian, who I saw the previous Saturday on the tour of the nearby Urban Chestnut Brewing Company Brewery.

After spending about one hour there, I began to head home. On the way, I stopped by a QuikTrip (https://www.quiktrip.com/) to get two taquitos from the roller grill to eat when I came home.

I bundled up in bed overnight and woke up to a very cold day here. We had a low temperature of -6 degrees F (-21 degrees C), with a wind chill of -28 degrees F (-33 degrees C). It was the coldest day here in years. Apart from renewing by driver's license at the license bureau in Oakville this morning, I stayed inside all day. Tomorrow morning, though, I am back at work and back to the cold.

Later.

A Saturday of Beer and Trivia

Saturday morning (26 January) found me at the Urban Chestnut Brewing Company's (http://urbanchestnut.com/) Brewery and Bierhall in the Grove neighborhood of St. Louis. This was a get together with the gtpwtw Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/gtpwtw/). Eleven of us toured the brewery, which we found most interesting. Larry, our tour guide, was most informative.

After touring the brewery, we were treated to four samples of Urban Chestnut's variety of beers. I enjoyed this very much.

Then, many of us stayed around to have lunch in the Bierhall. I had pork & apple sausage on a bun, with sauerkraut and potato salad, washed down with Urban Chestnut's Oxnbrau beer. Very tasty.

I shopped in the merchandise store, buying two beer glasses before going home. It was a great time.

That night, I drove to Creve Coeur Airport (http://crevecoeurairport.com/) to meet up with three fellow Missouri Aviation Historical Society (https://moavhist.org/) members. We then carpooled to Heritage Hall in Bonne Terre, Missouri for a trivia night benefitting The Space Museum (https://www.space-mo.org/) there.

We four joined with one of the tables of fellow players and took part in the contest: ten sets of ten questions per set. I saw some others I knew at some of the other tables. I was able to help them out on some questions. Out group finished sixth best of 18 tables there.

After the contest, we toured the Grissom Center next door to Heritage Hall. This is a new wing of The Space Museum, named for early American astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom. It's a small museum, but most interesting for spaceflight enthusiasts. I sat in a leather chair used by Space Shuttle astronauts during suiting up procedures prior to launch.

Later.