Hefeweizen, high-speed Internet and the art of Bonsai

I bought a small bonsai plant a few months ago and it's currently withering away on my desk as I type this. For the first few weeks, it looked healthy and I was convinced that it was doing just fine when in actuality, it was dying a slow death in its pot. In a desperate fight to keep it alive, I tried watering it constantly, but to no avail. It just continued to turn brown. Despite this, it has retained some of its green color and still looks somewhat presentable, which is why it still sits on my desk. Yesterday, I tried gently touching the little green branches and much to my chagrin, the branches crumbled into little pieces and fell to the floor. So here I am with a plant that is unresponsive to water, brittle to the touch and probably dead. But I think I'll keep it around until all the green branches eventually turn brown and crumble to the floor. It's a damn shame because I was hoping that I could one day trim the branches like Mr. Miagi did in The Karate Kid.

I've definitely been drinking more beer since I got to California. More specifically, this beer. Up until now, Heineken was the beer of my choice, but ever since the day my lips met the cold refreshing taste of my first Hefeweizen, there was no turning back. I knew instantly, that this would be my brew. For my buddies in Boston, I recommend you try it if you haven't done so already. I've heard a few places have it on tap, Sunset Grille being one of them. Anyways, enough about beer.

OK, so I'll admit it. I'm one of those people that cringe in pain when forced to wait more than 10 seconds for a website to load. Call me impatient, label me a productivity-whore, but that's wasted time people. Do the math: let's say you wait an average of 10 seconds as opposed to 5 while viewing 100 pages a day. That's 16.7 minutes versus 8.3 minutes, nearly 8 more minutes a day which equates to 40 more minutes a week, resulting in 2 hours and 40 minutes a month, of wasted time (sorry, I was just reminded of this at work today when our network was lagging). It makes me wonder how we lived through dial-up modem connections.

In summation, God bless Hefeweizen, high-speed Internet and healthy bonsai trees.