I have my own bar coasters!  I don’t know why, but this seems so much fun.  I was fortunate enough to have a few beers reviewed on The Brewing Network’s Dr. Homebrew podcast from which I won a gift certificate to GrogTag.  After looking at the various products I settled on getting bar coasters.  I spent way too much time thinking about this.  I think I received the gift card in February and then thought about it for a good six months.  When I actually sat down to make something I spent several nights working on various designs.  In the end I settled on a somewhat modern theme loaded things with Easter eggs about my background.  Can you find everything?

I will have to say when I sent this to get printed I suspected the print quality wouldn’t be that great. Much to my surprise everything looks fantastic. Below is a photo of the real coaster

And finally here are all the easter eggs exposed

1.  ViaSat-2: The last satellite I help build at Boeing. I helped design several of the unique digital payload units. 
2. Silhouette of Engineer Mountain as seen from Purgatory:  Purgatory is where I grew up skiing
3. Iron Cross 360 with a grab:  I’m still trying to land my dream trick from Tommy Mosley’s 1998 gold medal Olympic run
4. A Zia symbol: New Mexico state symbol as a look back to where I was born and raised
5. Delta Chi: My college fraternity 
6. A pull down circuit: A reflection of my EE background. Also this is a variant of what I designed into my future brewstand controller
7. My family:  two boys, my wife, and I
8. Palm Trees:  These are the plam trees that could be seen from our old Hermosa Beach balcony
9. NMSU:  where I attended undergrad
10. Standford:  where I completed my masters’ degree  
11. My mash paddle:  Not really and Easter egg, but this corner got charred one brew session when I left it too close to the burner and later cut it off
12. Norte Dame!!!!!
13. Soccer ball:  I’ve been playing since a kid, still play, and am having fun teaching the boys to play
14. Abbey of St. Peter in Oudenburg: Abbey founded by St. Arnold, commonly referred to as the brewer’s saint