This Job Does Have its Perks

Howdy, campers! We've had us another busy week down here at Bone Up Headquarters! Now, to an outside observer we've mainly been doing what my doctor* refers to as "daytime drinking." But that's one of the great things about our industry! It all qualifies as Legitimate Business Operations - this is what other, less cool industries refer to as "networking" (another great thing about this industry is that if you go around using words like "networking" you'll usually get told to shut the hell up). Meetings have been met, plans have been planned, and we've given a handful of impromptu tours of our brewery space, in spite of (or perhaps because of) our warnings about its... rough appearance.**

Speaking of which, there has been a (hopefully minor) setback in construction (remember that leaky roof we've mentioned like five times before? Fixing*** it caused more leaking somehow, even when it isn't raining), but that's pretty much business-as-usual. So once again, partly in effort to lead by example, our intrepid brewers have inexpertly donned their finest safety gear and set to work about the brewery. It's a project that will soon result in the sort of thing that passes for news around here, but for the time being we leave you with these pictures of them looking somewhat ridiculous. 

Insert dumb Breaking Bad joke here. 

Wait, a different type of shitty flooring? Oh my, this is a surprise! 

Go buy your own Red Fang bandana so you can stop being jealous of Jimbo's.

We thought this would power-wash the dirt right off... only to find the dirt had somehow fused with the door. Fun!

The stark white of a freshly painted door really brings out the fine wooden hues only found in the ever-changing sea of garbage.

Lastly and arguably leastly, I should probably mention some news that's good in general but kind of a huge bummer for us: on September 19th, the City of Everett will be holding a block party right in our dang neighborhood. I say it's a bummer because there's at most a zero percent chance that we'll be able to serve beer at it (we'd previously been told that it was going to be in late October, which would have given us much more of a fighting chance of being ready in time). But even if our construction magically**** got finished today and the rest of our permits appeared instantaneously, we'd still have to rush around to have anything ready in time. We'll probably still attend, grudgingly having fun as we wish we could be serving beer. So if you go (and you should because our neighbors from Short Path Distillery and Night Shift Brewing will be there), come say hi if you see us! We'll be the ones wistfully staring off into the distance, thinking about What Could Have Been.

Maybe next year we get to play with the other kids down the street.

*Roommate who has spent several years in or at least near a medical school
**For the most part, people (other than us) were polite enough to avoid actually using the word "shithole" to describe the current state of affairs. The most popular euphemism was "it's got potential," though I think my favorite was "it's very... functional."
***Well, "fixing" might be a bit too strong a word there
****The significant bulk of it could get finished in a couple days without any reliance on magic, but we've resigned ourselves to the idea that we're gonna have to wait