wacky1980

i can't decide how i should go into this employee review. should i 1) sit there and act like everything's just fine so i can get back to work; or 2) spend 45 minutes griping over all the same shit i've griped over for the last five years, knowing the result will be more promises of change and improvement that end up going unfulfilled. i've been here ten years now. ten fucking years. and it's clear that my future here is never changing. i've topped out my position for at least the next 5 years, and even then the only advancement will be in name because i'm already doing a majority of the work for the person in that position. and i'll never be in an executive office because i'm not a member of the right families. i've taken this job as far as it can go, and i'm not at all satisfied with where that is. and i never will be. fuck. so why even rock the boat at this point, right? why make my life even more miserable between the hours of 8am-4pm? no, i should just keep slowly killing myself until i can just quit. because i have an out, and all i need is one particular piece to fall into place for that out to materialize. it could happen next week, could be 3 years. hard to say. but when it happens, that's it. and i can force it if i really want to. but it would mean putting someone else out of a job, and i'm not ready to be that asshole just yet. ugh. i could use a little bit of that divine intervention right about now.

the brown ale was disappoint at first taste. some diacetyl off-flavor in there, i'm thinking from poor aeration of the wort prior to fermentation (this has been a recurring issue for us). luckily enough, i recently picked up some parts and built an aeration kit from scratch, so we can eliminate that variable from future batches. diacetyl is one of the off-flavors that a lot of homebrewers fight, and is one of the main reasons homebrew gets dismissed as tasting crappy. sometimes it "bakes out" (my term) in the bottle after a few weeks, and i'm hoping that's the case with this brown ale. if not, oh well. the reason we brewed this batch was to test our process before getting back into the habit. we might actually get to brew the porter tomorrow night, so fingers are crossed...

yes. i need hugs and validation. it's men's day, after all.

oy. i even made the winky face super big so you'd all know i was joking, and yet ijustcantwinwithyouguys.gif

this seems like a totally appropriate and not-at-all hypocritical way to celebrate men's day.

looks good so far! wife made a roast last week, and the only difference i can see from yours is that she doesn't use broccoli, and she uses a roasting pot in the oven instead of a crock pot because some idiot forgot to clean it out and it sat in a box on the back porch for a month. oops.

Could also be something as simple as an HDCP error. Temporarily breaking the physical connection can fix the problem, but it comes back because the source device and the display device don't initiate a proper "handshake" upon startup, and therefore will not communicate. I've had this issue pop up with cable boxes hooked up to projectors, and have had *limited* success placing an HDCP bypass box between the devices, which can be had for $25 from Amazon. It's really only a band-aid, but it could be the cheapest "fix" available when your only options are new hardware.

this is why a person should always create a new gmail for each youtube channel.

kinder. german, short "i". like, for kids. google fiber is for kids. get it off my lawn.

you boiled that, didn't you.

@cryptkicker5 i'd stop in if we were in the area. i think the wife has me talked into vacationing in florida with the family sometime this winter/spring. maybe we can add ga to the travel plans. i almost met another board member once in stl. the band was playing a thing down there, and the guy (don't remember the name) had talked about showing up at it. i don't think he ever did though. so my 0 streak is still alive and well.

what court level? i've been called up for us district court before and it was HORRID. thank goodness i didn't get seated. that patent infringement case took every bit of 30 days and it was a 90 minute drive from home.

i'd kill for bills that small. the house bill goes down to around $150 when we're not running heat or air. $250 is normal in the summer. and $300 happens in the coldest winter months. before we did an efficiency overhaul at the bar, our bills in the summer would be over $1000/mo and about 70% of it was for cooling.

i'm good down to 60 because i don't mind adding layers, but the wife and kids don't know how to self-regulate like a former homeless person can. got the nest set to 68 during awake hours and 65 during asleep hours. wife likes to bump it to 70 when i'm not looking, but i have it set to revert on schedule. we have a big old house, so it's usually a few degrees cooler away from the thermostat in some of the north-wall rooms.

if i lived in the pitt, and didn't have to do another damn dj event tomorrow, i'd totally bring my wife along. if you ever tour though...

fr though, sounds awesome and i hope it turns out well!

i dunno man. i just watched daniel sloss on hbo the other day, and now i'm not sure if i like comedians at all anymore.

lol xennial BAG scum

lol xennial scum

they say it. you can click the pictures and zoom them in for yourself.

bottled up the brown ale last night. nailed our expected gravity, and ended up at about 4.5% ABV. flavor wasn't spectacular, but it's hard to judge flavor when it's still warm and flat. we'll see what it tastes like in a couple weeks, after it's carbed up and ready for prime time. still haven't found the time to brew that porter either. harvest season is finally in full swing now, so my brew partner is pretty busy. we're looking at maybe sunday/monday if the weather takes a turn like the forecast says it might. in the meantime, we got in A LOT of good beers at the bar over the last few days. a few imperial stouts, a couple belgians, and some other goodies. gonna spend the next couple evenings sampling them with the wife. life is tough.

nah, it's just a different version of bullshit. but thank you. it sure beats scrubbing shitters or flipping burgers, even if it doesn't pay as good as either of those things.

you can get some of the more common LA notes on ebay for <$10.

no, but wife and i own two bars and we brew beer as a hobby.

lambics are "wild" fermentation belgian ales that are only made in this one little valley in belgium. framboise lambics are wild fermented with raspberries. fucking delicious. it's like fancy wine, but still beer so, y'know, manly and stuff.