wacky1980

ew no. i don't even show that to my wife.

I GOTS NO WARNINGS POINTS! WHATS CAN YOU DOS TO FIX THIS?

uh-oh... you got the bug now. may as well add ingredients and equipment to the monthly budget for the next couple years. also, congratulations on a great first (and second) brew!

never bought a mac, because i don't enjoy giving all my money away at once. although i will gladly build a windows PC for $1200, and edit the fuck outta some media and play all the games. we have a pack of ipads running wild through the house though. the boys have a lot easier time with them than they do android tabs because it's harder to screw up an ipad by being curious and poking around in settings.

picked up a nail in one of the truck tires last night. they're worn enough that i've been thinking about getting another set of 4 for the last few months. i guess now's the fucking time to do that. they're expensive as hell because of course they are, so i'm gonna try to find a used set first. anyone got an extra set of 285 75R 16s laying around they wanna unload?

wife and kids are raising monarch butterflies...well, wife's aunt is raising them in her garden, and she gave the boys a few caterpillars to raise at our house. they found a pile of eggs at the in-laws, and wife's aunt always collects the eggs every summer, raises the caterpillars, and then releases the butterflies after they break out of their chrysalis. it gives them a greater survival rate than growing in the wild, and the kids get a good free science experiment out of it as well. yes, that's poop to the right. these things eat milkweed like mad, and poop what i can only assume is their entire body weight in shit every day. it's like, almost disturbing how much they poop.

i've yet to ever name a beer i made, beyond a descriptive label. "Azacca SMaSH IPA" is how i refer to this one, because it uses azacca hops, it's a Single Malt and Single Hop recipe, and the style is IPA. very clever, i know. i do have a portfolio of names and concept art for the beers i'll eventually develop when i launch a brewery. not sure if any will survive til that day though.

I think if it was growing bacteria, you'd see significant growth / spread. Mold would look fuzzy. From what I can tell, this just looks like foam. My guess is it's probably fine. But I'm also not a mead guy so I don't necessarily know what kinds of infections might show up.

It's hard to say. Krausen is some pretty nasty-looking shit, and it could also just be off-gassing of ingredients or yeast. Has it grown since this pic, or fallen back in? I kegged up my baby IPA on I think Friday. I was not pleased with the product because there was a horrible off-flavor that I assumed at the time was the result of blow-off contamination. Regardless, I kegged it and carbed it and left it in the fridge. Just took the first pull from the keg tonight... It's still off, but much improved. Tastes a little buttery and has an odd aroma that I can't quite pin down...kinda like medicine. But the nastiness from a few days ago has faded off almost entirely. Clarity is decent for a non-filtered IPA, and it's carbed almost perfectly. Burps taste like IPA burps, so that's good. At this point, another week of age might just clean it up the rest of the way. I'm actually almost satisfied, all things considered, with our first batch on this tiny stovetop brewery. I ordered a new fermenter and upgraded a couple pieces. Should have it all in by the weekend. I guess we'll have to try it again and see if it comes out better on round 2... forgot to add final stats on the beer: abv: 7.8% (est) ibu: 48 srm: 8.6

i'm watching cubs/sox exhibition on tv. empty stands, but all the scoreboards are on and the organist is doing his thing. kinda sucks, but it's better than no baseball at all...

This usually, but I think the last pair I bought were actually 11s.

there's one of them across the street, now that you mention it ... shit.

is it a line or is it ... like, a train? i'm probably in either way. just need to know which pair of shoes is more appropriate.

we must find him, break him, and turn him against his master. one of us. one of us.

dead animals keep showing up on my property. the first couple were just dead and laying around in random places, but this morning's candidate was buried in one of the wife's flower beds. all raccoons of different ages. and my dog (who is kept inside the fenced-in part of the yard) turned up the other day with a big cut on his hind leg. i guess a fox could be responsible for burying a dead critter like that, but i don't know if a fox would wander this far into town, and then bury a kill so close to a human structure. if someone in the neighborhood was poisoning raccoons it would make sense that they'd be showing up dead like this, but not buried. what the fuck.

uhhh ok

the beer recipe is easy af too: 1.5 gallons of water 2# malt extract boil 1 hour add up to 2oz hops during boil, depending on taste cool to room temp, transfer to fermenter of choice, dump in a packet of yeast. wait two weeks. the process can be a trick though; that part requires a bit of practice.

we got lucky on its location. from our front yard, you only have to look NW over the top of the neighbor's house and between a couple trees. once i found it, i couldn't believe how obvious it was. i tried getting better pics with my phone, but it got too dark for it to find and focus in. the next few days will be better because i'll be prepared and it will be a little higher in the sky every night.

it's not easy to see without light pollution, unless you have some binoculars or a scope. i got a camera mount for my 130mm reflector scope a little while back, and this will be the first time i break it out. should pull some good pics of this comet if i get enough time to focus on the task.

pretty cool comet hanging out on the northwest horizon after sunset for the next few days. anyone gone out to see NEOWISE yet? tonight's been the first night i could actually find it, and i was surprised to be able to see it without the help of magnification. i snapped a quick/dirty pic of it with my phone: if we get another good evening look at it over the weekend / early next week, i'll have to break out the scope and get a clean shot of it. yay, astro-nerd me is happy af right now.

me trying to understand this post

yes

sure, ok. 1) carefully recreate a true replica of matt damon's head, using dna from matt damon's entrails (and if the dragon already at them, surely there's like a hair on his comb or a pube on the toilet or something), a paste made from the saliva of rick james, approx 44 oz of coke, the severed head from his one oscar trophy, (should have been two you assholes, THE MARTIAN WAS AMAZING), and a bit of pure magic from the ark. the skull comes out rock solid, but it's a dead fucking ringer for matt damon. it would fool, literally anyone. and it could also be used as a bludgeoning tool... 2) smack the fuck out of the dragon using the matt damon skull. give it a real fear of other men. then give it a hug and tell it you love it. take it fishing in the bathtub for one of damon's toes. when it catches one, tell it you're proud of it. it wanders off down the hall with a renewed sense of worth. rick james suddenly stops hitting the rails and offers his assistance. 3) rick knows goebbels. even has the dude's number. so we pull out our hologram videophone (we're 10 years in the future, after all), call that nazi fuck up, and show off the skull we "just lifted" from his mansion. he's fooled by the magic replica. in a fit of rage, goebbels comes racing over, only to realize we've also left and went to his place [i don't know that movie so insert some hijinx involving rick james and an airplane-on-map montage] and stolen the actual matt damon skull. 4) goebbels has the ark (oops?), but who cares about that right now. we have a fucking TIME MACHINE and we're gonna return it to the museum by turning back the clock to when it was still in the dirt. then we go collect it, put it in a museum, get rick james all fucked up on pcp, and leave him on the foyer floor of his apartment in toluca hills. his future remains uncertain.

*cries*

on a schedule eh?