Brixx's Beer Special

So we sat outside at Brixx last night with a group of friends and enjoyed Brixx's Saturday night $2.50 beer special. It was a German Lager that I can't remember the name of. Every Saturday night Brixx has a different beer special. Its a great deal and considering that their list of about 30 import beers are all great it is a fantastic way to try out new beers. I also had a vegetarian pizza that was great as well. I have two slices left which I think I'll enjoy once I'm done writing here.
Birkdale's live music band was great last night too. They played a good mix of 80s rock. We really enjoyed the live music and wound up sitting outside until about 11pm. The live music ends at 9:30 PM which seems a little early but I guess that since people live right above the shops it makes sense not to keep them up all night. What we were amazed by is how little of the music we were able to hear as we walked towards the main strip. We figure that since the speakers are pointer towards Sam Furr that the houses behind the village don't get much of the music.
What was nice about last night is that we didn't get to Brixx until about 8:30 PM. Since it was so cool out Birkdale was lively but not packed so we got an outside table right away. Even cooler, is that Brixx has these outdoor gas heaters that throw heat down on the tables so even though it was a little cool out we were quite comfortable. I'm thinking of getting one of these Resnor heaters for my back deck. I wonder how much they run and how hard it is to tap in to the existing gas line?

Day Four and Counting

Today is the fourth day that we are waiting for Time Warner to come and hook up our Cable Internet. No kidding, but they've missed three appointments over the past week so far. I'm amazed that we don't move to the top of some scheduling priority after the third missed appointment. But, alas, here it is on day four at 10:55 with one hour left in the four hour window (8-12). The wife is very upset but the husband doesn't mind as we are now at $80 in credits for the missed appointments and today we found an unsecured wireless Internet that we just used to check email and write into the blog since we moved.
In case anyone is thinking of moving or changing their telecom services here in Birkdale or Charlotte we've found the best combination to be Direct TV for TV ($58 for two DVR connections), Time Warner for Cable Internet (High Speed Internet), and Sun Rocket for VOIP ($9.95 for unlimited calling). We originally had Bell South for DSL and Telephone but we could never get our bill below $80/month and often it was over $100. So we canned them and all of their fees and the combined Time Warner Internet/Sun Rocket Phone means that our combined bill in never great that $53. The other cool thing about Sun Rocket is that it allows us 200 free international calling minutes. It occasionally has some bad connection issues but most of the time it is just as good as a regular phone and costs a heck of allot less.
Well, Time Warner's install team finally called and they just turned into Birkdale Village.