I have been to both. I live in Colorado so you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting several microbreweries plus I am not too far from The Coors Brewery(in Golden) or from Anheueser-Busch Brewery (in Longmont). I am also very close to a winery called Carboys that has a good restaurant (in Littleton, a suburb of Denver). In fact on Saturday a good friend of mine and I are going to have lunch at the Breckinridge Brewery. I ride my recumbent there in good weather. It is about a 15 mile (24 km) round trip.

I would pick brewery because after taking the Coors Brewery tour there is a restaurant right across the street from the Coors parking lot called “Bob’s Atomic Burgers”. It is a bit pricey but worth every cent especially after you have had 4 - 8oz beer samples at Coors. The Sweet Potato fries with the Godzilla dipping sauce hits the spot after the beer.

Small independent burger restaurant or big chain burger restaurant?

Classic styling, Modern technology.


Bohemian Rhapsody or Crazy Train?

Stick shift for sure.

Sports car or racing motorcycle?

Ray of sunshine.

Crazy Train or Bohemian Rhapsody?

Piano

Play a musical solo in front of an auditorium of strangers or have to prepare a large dinner for judge mental in-laws?

Salmon, my mom used to make salmon patties during lent and I loved them.

Attempt to play Crazy Train on piano or listen to a piano version of Crazy Train on YouTube?

Without marshmallows, too much sugar.

Riding for a half hour on a stationary bike in a warm place or riding a recumbent for an hour outside in the cold but with nice scenery?

Gas fire.

I love gas fireplaces almost more than wood burning fireplaces and cuddling with a significant other is much more fun in front of a fireplace than in front of an electric heater.

Smoked turkey or a pressure cooked Cornish game hen?

Really depends on my destination, but all other things being equal, a leisurely back road, especially if I am on my motorcycle.

Two cats and a dog or two dogs and a cat?

Europe

North America or South America?

The actions of this story took place on Easter of 1988. I was attending The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. My oldest brother Tony, his wife and his one-year-old son, John, lived in Columbus and I had caught a ride with them to our parents’ home for the Holiday.  All of my siblings, their significant others and their children were going to be at my household to celebrate the...

Added 12 May 2021 | Category Musings | Votes 6 | Avg Score 5 | Views 378 | 6 Comments

You may not be gorgeous or famous, You may be a huge ignoramous, If this is so, Then I'll let you know, You look like you came from Uranus!    ...

Added 15 Feb 2021 | Category Poetry | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 165 | 2 Comments

When I started college at Ohio State, I was living in an apartment with two of my older brothers. My third year of college, I had to move into the dorms. When I moved, I had more social opportunities with women. So, I would ask a girl out on a Friday or Saturday, to one of the High Street clubs for some beer and dancing.  More often than not, when I was dancing with my date, a snot-nosed...

Added 29 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 317 | 3 Comments

Welcome, citizen of Earth. It is hoped that you enjoy your sojourn to the stars but there are several important points to Galactic Culture that you must learn before you leave Earth space for more exotic climes.  Now, as you know that for the Earth to join the Galactic Federation, Earth and its people had to make three contributions to the Federation. If the Earth could not make...

Added 24 Aug 2020 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 247 | 3 Comments

Right now I want to rage as only another redhead can understand. We have only known each other for a few weeks but I think we both felt a connection. I tried to keep myself from becoming too emotionally attached to you too fast but I guess I failed miserably. I woke this morning and I got the message of your passing from your aunt, feeling stunned, and I can feel the...

Added 21 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 360 | 4 Comments

I discovered the secret to having a Merry Christmas long ago. It was Christmas Eve 1993. I stopped by my brother Gene’s home to drop off the presents I had gotten for my nephews, John and Nic. John was 9 years old and Nic was 7 years old. It was about 7 pm and I was invited to go to Midnight Mass. I enjoyed the time before mass playing with my nephews.  I had just been dumped by my long...

Added 16 Aug 2020 | Category Musings | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 233 | 5 Comments

King Crusher lead me to the royal quarters, the royal quarters basically being a hut that is several times larger than any other hut in the village. When I stepped inside of the hut I was surprised to see that it was rather civilized, it was very clean with some of the nicest and largest furniture that I have ever seen. The was a very comfortable couch, a fully stocked bar, and a large...

Added 06 Aug 2020 | Category Fantasy | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 343 | 3 Comments

All of my life I have had to deal with a mind crippling depression. The origional time this depression hit me was when I was 11 years old and had started 7th grade. I had just moved from my grade school to a junior high. For the intial first half grading period, I was forgetting homework assignments and even how to do tasks. I suffered. I could get control of my emotions after 3 weeks and...

Added 05 Aug 2020 | Category Memoirs | Votes 8 | Avg Score 5 | Views 380 | 6 Comments

Over twenty years ago I found a spell-book of a white witch. I looked through the spells listed and there were many interesting spells in the text. There were spells to win affection and to keep people from harming themselves and many others. (Every time I tried to cast the augur to receive love, I got interference from a specific individual that ruined the casting. You might think she...

Added 17 Dec 2017 | Category General | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 756 | 4 Comments

This story starts at the beginning of my senior year at Kent State. I was majoring in Physics and I was taking some high level courses. At the start of my second to the last semester before I was scheduled to graduate I was taking Electro-magnet Theory I (which I loved), Introduction to Quantum and Atomic Theory (which I also loved) and Physical Thermodynamics (which didn't love me).  I...

Added 27 Sep 2017 | Category Memoirs | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 909 | 3 Comments