Has it really been a month?

Apparently it has. That is not to say I've abandoned this little blog here. I've just been taking my own advice and clearing out my schedule, crossing things off my to do list, and the like. I've also learned to brew beer in the meantime. Well, I'm still in one of those places where I feel like a lot of things are going on, but that half of it is waiting for something to happen, which is always a little frustrating. Anyway, I haven't really thought of anything I like about Albuquerque this week, so I'll just mention Golden City Chinese buffet. Now, let me be clear, I'm not really recommending this as a restaurant, but more as a hangover cure. It's a little typical Chinese buffet that adjoins some hotel. It's actually right across the street from what used to be the New Chinatown and is now Mr. K's. If you live in Albuquerque you probably already know that the one thing we have beyond any reasonable proportion is Chinese restaurants. I'm not sure why that is, but there are probably a hundred of them scattered across the city. Anyway, I mention this place because, to my knowledge, this is really the best place to go for lunch following heavy drinking the night before. You wouldn't think it, being the typically fried food you naturally expect from a place like this, but somehow it seems to work well. My only recent complaint is that they've removed the pot stickers and replaced them with some kind of pineapple coconut dumpling. I liked those pot stickers and I'm sorry to see them go. Still, they may bring them back and in the meantime they still have french fries, which I, probably alone in the world, consider to be a necessary part of any Chinese buffet. Also, I should add, their hot mustard is very hot - another requirement. Look, to be honest, the place is a dive. After all their lobby connects to an old 60's style motel and the walls are done in dark wood paneling. There's a constant flow of bad Asian pop music through the speakers, and a collection of plastic novelty Asian gifts at the register. Still, when you think about it, this is exactly the type of place in which to recover from a night of excess, maybe because everyone else there is probably doing the same thing.


Currently reading: The Homebrewer's Companion - Charlie Papazian. I should add that I have finished several other books that had been on my list for a while as well as several other books on brewing.
Currently listening to: Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Last Netflix movie: I think it was Re-Animator. If not, it was The Harder They Come.