Monday, March 19, 2007
RAISING THE BAR
With construction delays (re: NO BEER) sapping not only our spirit and morale, but our bottom line as well, we’ve been thinking outside the box (trailer), trying to come up with temporary solutions to replace the Bel Air bar. Ideas have ranged from the practical…
Off camera: Bel Air regulars with folding chairs.
To the extreme…
All it's missing is a Pint Club logo.
But finally, we hit upon the ultimate solution to our construction woes. The cure for our poison, the mongoose for our cobra, the integer factorization algorithms for our cryptography, was waiting for us just north of the Manson Nixon line…
Fast builders, but you’d better enjoy drinking and dining by candlelight.
It’s time for a good, old fashioned “Amish Bar Raising”. Afterall, if they can throw a barn up in a day, how long could it take them to produce a bar? Unfortunately, transportation logistics proved to be a problem, as it would take longer for our plainly dressed, ant colony-like speed builders to get to Bel Air via horse and buggy than it will take us to rebuild the restaurant at our current rate of progress. (No letters, please! We have nothing but the utmost respect for the Amish community.)
We STILL have no new news to report, but next time… well, next time is “HAMMER-TIME”.
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