Today's comment of the week involves pig farming. But before we get to that! Don't forget to mark your calendar for the January 23rd Level meetup and Flyers watch party we'll be having at Smith's Restaurant and Bar located in Rittenhouse in Center City. All the cool blogger nerds will be there.
If you've never been to Smith's, they have some pretty killer specials during all NFL games (including Thursdays): $4 Harpoon drafts, $10 pizzas, and some great $5 food specials like guac, boneless wings, or chicken nachos.
This week's winner of a $25 gift card to Smith's is a guy who once worked on a pig farm in New Zealand. Gotta reward that kind of effort. Congrats, PhillyNZ, who wrote in about our reflecting on the 5-year anniversary of the Phillies World Series victory.
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I was working on a pig farm in New Zealand, during a kind of year-long overseas experience. I would drive 45 minutes from the farm to the nearest mall, where I would order a coffee at a cafe and get an hour of free internet, during which I would read and respond to E-mails for about 10 minutes and then read everything about the games for the next 50. I couldn’t get internet any other way. I was able to watch Game 4 at a friend’s house who had a sweet TV package, and because it was a national holiday that day (all the games happened around lunchtime in NZ because of the time difference, and I had to be working then). I loved every bit of it.
The next day when I went to the coffee shop to find out if they had won it all, I was disappointed the game was suspended. I E-mailed my mom to send me a text when/if they won it all. When I didn’t get a text the next day, I thought they had either lost or the text didn’t go through, so I raced to the coffee shop after work only to find out that it was still suspended. The next day, around 1:30 or 2pm, while I was filling the wallowing holes for the pigs with water, I finally got the text from my mom (who had to learn how to send a text, by the way): “Phillies win!!” It was awesome. I was all alone, halfway across the world, but I was just as happy as everyone in Philly that they won.
New Zealand was great (if you can afford it, go), but that was one of the highlights.