Went to Brickseller with Dan last night, where they have a beer menu that looks more the size of one of those Beckett baseball card almanacs that I used to value my cards in when I was little. He had me taste a Polish and a Belgian beer, and convinced me that I do in fact like beer, I just do not like mediocre beer. We had fabulous roaring conversation through the night on the future of music, the future of Judaism, socialist organic farms, graduate schools and life plans. Dan and I have been friends since the third grade. Wow, that's 14some years I suppose, most of our lives. I am grateful that even though we have not kept in touch much over the phone, we connect beautifully in person.