Scotch and All That

It's not often that I get to travel for a client - and by travel I mean to go a place I haven't been before and spend some quality travel-time there getting to know it. One of my new clients is Johnnie Walker, and thanks to them I got to spend some quality time in Scotland learning about Scotch (literally, everything about it from the distilling to the bottling) and Johnnie Walker in particular. I came away with a vastly-increased knowledge of Scotch, and got to stay in a castle and see a bit of Scotland to boot.

I haven't been to Scotland in ten years and that was as a student backpacker, so it was nice to stay in a good bed and do some things I didn't get to do the first time around. And it really did teach me a lot about Scotch, which if you've followed my other blog for any length of time you know is a bit of a hobby of mine - and I'm afraid is about to become much more of a hobby.

Some pics are below, including me in a kilt. Aye laddie!

A Preview

I've been terrible at updating lately, mostly because the weather here has been fantastic and I've been spending every possible moment outside when I'm not at work. OK, not every possible moment, but every possible blogging moment.

I realize I don't normally say where we're going on our next trip or even when we're going, but there will be a trip soon. To prepare, Elizabeth purchased a head scarf.

Where could we be going?

From The Office

Earlier this week, my French coworker told me:

That was a great email. It had the right balance of annoying American optimism and vague 'fuck off' tone.

I took it as a compliment.