Well, here we go!
I've been thinking of doing this for a few months now, after a friend suggested we use a blog to track our progress in attempting to see 50 plays and visit 50 different brewpubs during our "year of 50." Thanks to our brilliant techie friend KH's instructions, I got this set up and ready to roll.
Background, or Why in the world are you going to (try to) see 50 plays and what are the rules?
Early in 2018, we had been to something like 5 or 6 artistic events in January, including 3 or 4 plays. This was largely the result of being married to a thespian who has acted with at least six different theater companies throughout the region (Corvallis, Albany, Newport, and Salem), and therefore has many, many theater friends who are in many, many plays in all these wonderful communities!
I like to be supportive of local community theater and our growing group of theater friends, but frankly, not all theater productions are created (or performed) equal. So it seemed like some kind of numeric goal might make all the theater-going more enjoyable. Given that 2019 was going to be our Year of 50 (i.e., both of us turning 50 this year), I thought a goal of going to 50 plays in 2019 could be a fun challenge.
In discussing it with C (the sensible one), she thought it might be smarter to give ourselves more time to reach the goal. So we came up with the idea of starting when one of us turned 50 and ending when the last one turned not-50 (i.e., 51). This means that we have from May 2019 to November 2020 to see 50 plays.
Now you might be thinking, "Okay, you're theater geeks. So... why 50 brewpubs?"
Well, that one's easier to explain. We like brewpubs. We like going to new brewpubs. We like going to brewpubs during theater-going trips. And we wanted another goal. It seemed like a good pairing.
One last goal, but the first one to be partially fulfilled, attempts to balance out all the beer and sitting: 50 miles of hiking.
Enough of this. On to the posts!
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