Happy Monday.  We spent the better part of our weekend unpacking and moving, so I’m a bit lacking in any type of informative update.  Even more so than usual, that is.  We went out Friday I suppose, to the recently opened Hop House in El Dorado Hills.  It’s a nice place, I see a bit of potential for it, but it could use a few adjustments.  For starters, I could definitely suggest a few tweaks to their beer list if they asked.  (Which, remarkably, they haven’t.)  There are too many great local beers around here to be carrying some of the over-hyped big names they’ve opted for, and they don’t have that many taps to begin with.  Probably my biggest gripe is the glassware though.  They pour all their pints in Mason jars.  This may have struck someone as a quaint idea on paper, but it just doesn’t work.  They don’t pour right, they don’t drink right…  They just ain’t right.  They need to just throw those out and get some proper pints.  (Right after they throw out that gawd-awful website design.)  It’s definitely a nice place to stop by for a one-and-out though, and if you’re hungry their overpriced burgers are right on par, or better, with all the other nearby overpriced burgers.  If I hadn’t been so spoiled by the Bier Station in Waldo I’d probably be downright fond of it.

Outside of that somewhat impromptu restaurant review, I’m short on material.  We’ve managed to get most of the Royals games on TV, so that’s provided us plenty of entertainment.  We still have no blinds in the house, so that provides the neighbors with plenty of entertainment.  It’s all coming together though.  I hope.