Huge F&*#ing Camera
Interesting article there about a BIG ASS camera. 4000 Megapixles or something outrageous like that.
Anyway...
That's almost as interesting as MIT students figuring out that there's really a 5th state of matter...(Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma, and now Superheated Fluid Gas) or something like that. Check out http://www.slashdot.com...It's on there.
I have been very bad. Very delinquent. I haven't written in here in quite a few days, so I have much to catch up on.
So the other day (Tuesday) Laura and I went to the homebrewers meeting. It was interesting, a little weird, but interesting. People there were hitting on Laura, but at least we were able to get some good brewing information out if it. Figured out what was wrong with our first brew (we needed more flavored malt) and got some dirrection for our next batch. We also learned how to make malted lemonade and Spiced Cider which will be excellent for a winter time beverage. I'm excited...
Tonight we're going to brew our third batch of beer. It's going to be a London Ale with a kick. We've purchased 14 lbs of grain, and a nice ammount of Hops, so we'll see. Should be something similar to a London SLA but a little darker. This time we're just flying by the seat of our pants, so we have NO IDEA how this will come out.
Our Milk Stout is currently sitting in the kitchen... We're kind of scared about it. The fermentation was REALLY quick. We're talking like 36 hours quick. So we hope that our yeast was happy and eating heartily at that time, but I have my doubts. We'll rack it to the secondary fermenter tonight.
In other news, at the homebrewers meeting the guys from 6 Points Brewery were there. We were speaking with them for a bit, and they told us to stop in this weekend to tour the facility. Hopefully eventually we'll be able to help out. They are a brand new brewery (4-5 months old) so it's just the two guys that are working there.
They were telling us how they are going to attempt to brew the strongest beer in the world. It'll be around 28% or so... They offered yeast strains to any home brewer that was bold enough to give it a shot. So I think that we're going to have to make a Double Black Chocolate Imperial Stout with it, and have it ready for Christmas time as a nice winter warmer. That or a Barleywine would be nice. We'll see.
With our current setup we can brew around 3 times a week, so hopefully we'll keep up that pace and have more beer than we can handle. Also, we found out that we can get bottles for cheap at American Beer Distributors. So we won't have to scrounge to fine enough bottles anymore.
On a more personal note, I can no longer call the Lawn a "Lawn" or hell.. even a lawn...yes, it's true, it's more like a jungle right now. Freaking Home Depot and UPS couldn't get the delivery directions right (Or maybe I entered it wrong...whhooops) and the lawnmower I ordered didn't come in yet. I doubt that the little manual lawn mower is even going to work on those huge tall weeds. We'll see. Maybe we'll have to go and get a little weed whacker to kind of tame down the lawn. I just hope that the weeds haven’t choked out the nice little grass that we planted. I'll have to go and get some weed killer in a few weeks
to really put a stop to this lawn madness.
So the whole ranch thing is coming along. Laura and I have been looking into the various things about it. Doing data entry and just trying to make sense of it all. We looked into Cattle software called CattleLog... I thought that was such a fun name.. Anyway, yeah good stuff. Much too boring to put up anymore than that, but anyway.
So I put up a few things on Ebay. I finally did it. So that's cool. They are actually ending in like 2 hours or so.
I should make a good bit of money from them, but that'll go right towards expenses.
Speaking of expenses, I think that I may have found a way to really take off some of the cost of school. Friend of a friend owns the company that does the staffing at the US Open, much to Laura's chagrin, I will hopefully be working there as either a Staff Manager or bar tender. Bar staff last year walked away with something like $12,000 for two weeks work. If I could do that, that would REALLY bite into this year's money issue with college. At least I know that when I get my tax returns back I'll get much more money that I should :) So there is a silver lining. We'll see, that's still hypothetical.
Work has been about on par. Nothing too special to report. Just wishing that I could go outside more often, and walk around more. I just hate sitting behind this desk for so damn long every day. Oh well. I've been really active recently in getting control of everything that I do here. So like a month ago I sent a letter to a local paralegal asking for a list of cases that were settled but money hadn't been sent yet. So what happens? Nothing. They never send it. Then I get a Nasty-Gram yesterday saying that money is 120 days overdue and that there are motions pending on the money. I was pissed. Oh well, whatcha gonna do?
Anyway, speaking of which, I gotta get back to work and write up those requests for money.