Coors Brewery<\/a> in Golden for the “VIP Tour,” a 90-minute version of the regular tour wherein you get to actually go behind the scenes, pick up germinated barley, peer into the bottling line, see the filtering plant (and drink freshly minted beer right out of filters). Hard hat, safety glasses, and steel-toed shoes (or slip-ons) required. Much fun, followed by a couple of beers at the tasting room afterwards. Back to the office. Nice lunch from Einstein Bros. brought in for a big IT meeting. After lunch, the CIO dragged we managers off to Hops for a couple more beers, before he headed off to the airport, and I finally got a chance to get some work done. <\/p>\nMaybe I’ll just drink some water tonight.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, the CIO thought the trip was great, and it’s always good chatting with him. And he’s promised to hang around for three days next time, so that I can get him down to the house for some Margie cooking (something of a challenge there). <\/p>\n
On the negative side, I was about five hours late with my weekly report.<\/p>\n
On the not-so-negative side, that report goes from my boss (who is on vacation) to the CIO, so it’s not like I didn’t have a good excuse …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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