After we got our Wednesdays sorted out from our Tuesdays, My Darling B and I went into town after work on the evening that the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild should have been meeting at the Memorial Union on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Trouble was, we didn’t know what any of them looked like, and they didn’t go out of their way to make themselves stand out, like put up a sign, or wear t-shirts with beer logos on them. Of all the people we saw there, and we took a good, long look at just about every single one of them as we wandered back and forth across the terrace alongside the lake, beers in hand, about half looked like students from the university and the other half looked like faculty or parents of students. And none of them were wearing t-shirts with beer logos.

Still, it was a nice place to relax with a beer after work. Quite a lot of other people apparently thought so, too. I had no idea the Memorial Union was such a popular after-work social hot spot.