wacky1980

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?

random irrational anxiety thing #3: heavy rain and it's raining really fucking hard right now. ugh.

it's looking like a beer again today. just might sneak away with something drinkable after all on this one. we'll tx to a keg tonight and carb it up, should be ready to drink by the weekend. hope it doesn't start growing something in the meantime...

Tried to cold crash this morning. Somehow the fermenter got air-locked and sucked all the water out of the blowoff bucket. When I got home this afternoon, my poor lovely beer had a layer of (thankfully sanitized) water on top of it. And lord knows how much o2 got in there. Anyways, I pulled out as much as I could and transferred it to another fermenter, reset everything, and continued with the cold crash. Hopefully the batch didn't pick up a bug while it was exposed to atmosphere. Shame, it smelled reeeeeally good and it could be ruined now. We'll see what it looks/smells like tomorrow when it's time to keg it up.

all the damn time.

nevermind, fixed it myself.

i need to poop

this handle needs to announce every celebrity death.

strawberry rhubarb is hard (even moreso than other new glarus beers) to come by if you're outside wisconsin. my favorite fruited beer from them is probably the wisconsin belgian red. so much flavor. i have a co-worker's uncle mule me some every time he comes down to visit, at $75/case. but i'm here to post that i'm drinking a toppling goliath king sue. picked up a case this week from distribution. and it's part of the shit batch. damn.

reserved a gmail account for the boy several years ago. he's old enough for a phone now, so i activate a new line and give him the email address. then i sign up for google family link so i can control / review his use. the app asks me to update the account holder info, so i do. he's <13 and when i put his birthdate in, the app locks down and says the email is disabled because user has to be >13. except the point of google family link is that users can be <13. so i hop on support and they flat refuse to help me recover the account. so the email i reserved years ago is gone forever. ok, what the fuck ever. so i create a new email address and set his phone up with it. uh-oh, google fi won't activate to that email because it's not where that line was registered. "please sign in with the email registered to this line." yeah about that ... YOU FUCKING DISABLED IT. so here i am, 3 hours into tech support hell. finally got escalation to a "specialist" (sure, whatever). they spent 10 minutes reading the case history and finally responded "i think you were sent to the wrong department. let me redirect you." that was 10 minutes ago now...

i hope "spear" is a cute name for something with a caliber in its description. ~~~ i really enjoy when the only other two people in this bank who can handle tech support for online banking are both gone at the same time. especially when it seems like everyone is having online banking issues today. glad i don't have all of my next week's work to get done in advance, since i'll be in another office all next week, covering my direct super while she's on vacation. good day, skeeter.

dry-hopped that little beast last night. it smelled gooooood.

and after the rain, all that's gonna happen is the humidity will spike and it will get even HOTTER outside. love those upper-midwest summers.