wacky1980

I just enjoy good beer. This shit is $20 a bottle. I'm getting my money's worth. Wifey is playing something on PS4 and kiddos are all sleeping. Life is fucking good.

I just got here. Been sipping on this conflux #2 for an hour or so. Front porch, critters singing. Free ballin and happy as shit. What's your excuse?

Yup.

i didn't care. was getting laid.

shit no, my high school gf lost it in devil's lake, wisconsin, maybe a year after i got it.

last time i used a wallpaper is was some original stuff i made for my business. not sure if i have it saved anywhere.

no, it's very much what i'd rather be doing. i'm just lazy right now after eating dinner and posting here for the last 30 minutes. gotta wait for the last kid to crash out first.

all black. amoled screen using an all black wallpaper saves battery life.

like, at this very moment? uh, probably plugging the wife. come to think of it, i might go do that anyways.

wifey cried crocodile tears when mj and prince died. it doesn't bother me though, when a celebrity dies. unless i feel like we're missing out on whatever gifts their talent could have brought us, then maybe a bit. in that regard, heath ledger's death felt like we were robbed of some good shit, but i don't think i ever really got upset about it.

in an attempt to keep you on topic... i took some pictures of the last total lunar eclipse on 9/27/15, the "blood moon" eclipse that was probably one of the most impressive i can recall. i don't think it was nearly as impressive as next month's solar eclipse is gonna be, but to each his own. or her own, i suppose. -_'

here's a fun interactive map of the eclipse. click on your location and it will tell you what percentage of the sun will be obscured, plus the times of the start and end of the eclipse for you. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/interactive_map/index.html

you can buy more online for a buck or two each.

no. it will move from west to east, and will take about 2 hours to cross the continent.

well the good news is, at least you've apparently still got the freedom to post like an ass.

i'm taking a whole day. the eclipse will be about 90% where i live, but i've never seen one at 100% so i'll do what i have to in order to get there. then there's the 4/8/24 total eclipse that's also gonna be passing over just south of here. the kids will be old enough to appreciate that one, so mark those calendars now for another personal day.

it must suck being so consumed with what other people post about.

well then i guess you're uninvited.

soooo maybe i've been waiting for the solar eclipse for several years now. until about a week ago, i had my itinerary all figured out too. then wife decided she wants to come and bring the kids along. well, so much for driving down to shawnee nat'l forest, dumping the truck, and hoofing it out to some remote clearing to set up camp. and of course, it's way too late to book a hotel or a campsite within the path of totality at this point. ok, new plan! since we're technically only about 3 hours' drive away from the centerline of the eclipse, i found a nature preserve outside columbia mo, talked to the site manager, and received his blessing to find a clearing out on the preserve to watch the show. we can't camp out the night before, but since we can drive right up to within a few yards of where we'll set up the cameras and etc, we should be able to get out of the house around 7am and have plenty of time to be set up before the show starts at about 11:46am. got all my solar viewing equipment out of storage (maybe i bought the stuff a few years ago in anticipation) and fired up the old camera. still need to go test it out to make sure i can get the shots i want out of it. hopefully i get some good pics to bring home. i was looking at solar filters for photography yesterday, and anything decent is $100+ so fuck that. i'll build one out of some solar film and a uv filter or something. will probably also put together one of those pinhole shadow boxes to keep a quick eye on things, and also for the wife/kids to check out so they don't have to stare up all day. anyone else making plans to watch the end of the world happen live? making human sacrifices / conjuring up the old spirits / getting really fucked up?

so you're gonna chlorinate a kiddie pool? or are you just filling it with tap water, and you're concerned about the chemicals in that?

i don't have room for one of those right now either. eventually though...

you can probably get two 1/6 barrel kegs plus your co2 tank inside a standard upright fridge (freezer on top) without much trouble. you can even mount the tap faucets directly to the fridge, so you don't have to mess with routing the beer lines and keeping them cold. or... ever heard of the "keezer"? it's a diy draft cooler made from a chest freezer. since you can't set one of those freezers to the right temp for beer though, you buy a $40 thermostat that controls power to the freezer. bring the lid of the freezer up by about 6" for adequate head space, and this is what you get: *drool* i'm going to build one of these at some point for my house.

what's your style? i'm still weighing options for the next couple batches. leaning towards a grapefruit sculpin clone and possibly an oktoberfest. i don't think i have anything held back right now except a couple batches that didn't turn out so well, and i wouldn't recommend drinking them unless you're in real need. i'm actually meeting up with the group today, discussing some options for moving forward. might have to move our brew space to another location, which would take us offline for a few weeks.

if it was severe enough, it could be. don't give up on the alcoholic thing though. i know people who have successfully lobbied for ss disability benefits solely because they were diagnosed with alcoholism. pieces of white trash shit they are, but they got what you're wanting. as long as you don't mind being considered a waste of air and living well below the poverty line, it's always an option.

sorry, illinois. we have pretty strict rules about what you can do with homebrew. one of the things you definitely can NOT do is sell it. if you want to sell your own beer, you have to purchase a brewer's license from the state, get inspected by the TTB (basically the ATF), and have a commercial brewing space that also gets inspected by the state health department. it's a.lot.of.work to get it done, just to sell your beer. you can give it away all you want though.