It's been a minute since I last posted a random life update. Today is the day though. Here are a few mundane things that I've been up to the past month or so. Let's have a looksee. I'll begin with a few books that I've read starting with a novella called "A Short Stay in Hell" by Steven L. Peck. This was recommended to me by my wife. It was a quick read but an incredibly impactful one. This book is actually one that will stay with me for a very long time, maybe even the rest of my life I think. It got me thinking about a lot of different things in a way that hasn't happened since, probably I was a child or teenager.

Today I'm going to do a quick post on a DIY project that I completed recently with my dad. We built some cedar planter boxes for our balcony to replace some old ones that we had to toss. It took me about three days over two weekends to complete the project. Lets see what I did shall we.

For this #beersaturday I'm going to share two beers that I tried while sitting on my balcony. I try to take advantage of our outdoor space whenever I can, especially if its a nice day out. Spring is in full force now so we are getting warmer temperatures and more and more days of sunshine. The balcony really has nothing to do with anything though so lets see what I drank shall we.

Much to my detriment, I missed last weeks #Beersaturday. This week I won't make that mistake though. I've got a review of two more Stout beers that I drank over the past few days. In my last beer post I also forgot to include a photo of a new batch of beers that I picked up at the liquor store (photo above). It was a good haul that day with a lot of new brews to try. It's always exciting when I see something different at the store that I've never tried. Let's check out what I had, shall we? Here we go.

Kingston Ontario is a small city located in the Central East part of the province. Its about two and a half hours away from the city of Toronto and in the opposite direction about two hours away from Ottawa. It's situated along lake Ontario and is a part of the Prince Edward County and Thousand Islands tourist regions.

A few months ago I wrote a post about our Breville Espresso machine breaking down after purchasing it less than 2 years prior (16 months to be exact). To put things into perspective, a family member of ours has had their Espresso machine for 12 years now and it's still going strong, so a machine dying in 2 years is absolutely ridiculous and was very frustrating for us to say the least. Our experience left a sour taste in my mouth towards the Breville brand and ultimately, I would never purchase another machine by them or recommend Breville to anyone else. My wife read reviews online about Breville machines and found that many other owners had the same issue that we had; their machine started leaking after a short period of time in the same place as ours. The issue appeared to be pretty common it seemed.