wacky1980

there are no more new festival shirts. we ended it last year after getting our asses handed to us for a third straight year from severe weather. there's only so many porta-potties i'm willing to stand back up after 80mph wind knocks them over in the alley. when i was left with blue-stained shoes and socks that smelled like piss, i kinda made a judgement call to never fucking put myself in that position again.

his isp probably assigns him a dynamic ip, so the link will break in a week anyways. who knows, maybe dd dropped some extra cash for a static ip. then that shit would be permanent. yeah, let's watch.

dunno why the link wouldn't work. seems fine from this end. sorry!

nono. we already have two in the house that i didn't want. the nice lady from the library next door took the cat home.

is this like, a secret poll or something? is there something in the works? WHEN ARE THE BOARDS COMING BACK?!?!

wife made a snapchat video story this morning of a little kittycat stuck inside a signpost, and its eventual rescue at the hand of a local fireman.

we transferred to secondary fermentation tonight. gravity was still significantly higher than where i wanted it, but it was stalled out for three days so i figure transferring it might be the only way to shock it back into active fermentation. secondary might give it the kick it needs to hit final gravity, but at this point it's probably gonna end up under-fermented. when we brew it again, we'll have to adjust some variables to see if we can figure out the weak fermentation. might be the water we used, might be that we're not making a yeast starter. or it could be something completely different. oh well, trial and error. on the upside, our first lager was finally ready to sample tonight. it still needs a couple months of bottle aging, but it was carbonated enough to crack a bottle for first impressions. it's definitely the clearest beer we've ever made, and the flavor was still a little malty but in-line with the lager style. when we try it again in august, it might be just about perfect.

ahh, that makes sense. but i don't get how dude can't help you get unlocked, privacy notwithstanding. i handle my bank's online banking customer accounts, and i have zero access to their passwords and MFA. but i can reset both of those things all day long.

apple support to get home...as in like, your nerdy brother or something? i dunno, it seems like there should be a phone support person who can unlock things remotely or something. they're called geniuses, for christ's sake.

isn't that effectively a port process though? seems like a lot of work to just turn around and port back a day later. not that i have a clue about how to fix this; i'm an android man myself.

lol, $518 is such a small amount that they don't even require tax forms from the winner. those are rookie numbers, mate.

times like this, i'm glad my workplace blocks yt. i can only imagine the erhu spankbank shit that happens in packard's econo apartment when he drops the needle on this record and unrolls his loli poster collection from beneath his twin bed.

srs. she's not getting married until september. that's plenty of time to throw down a quick romantic trist. or a few weekends of alpha dominance. spread that seed man.

i have sigs turned off and i'm too lazy to walk that path to making them visible again. you got links you can toss up?

so i brewed this ipa up on friday night last week. i think it went alright. gravity was a little low out of the mash so i boiled it for an extra 20 minutes to reduce it. ended up hitting target gravity of 1.062 (i think i was actually at 1.061 but that's good enough), but i only had 4.5 gallons of wort instead of the intended 5 gallons in the fermenter. so we're gonna be short by about a 6-pack when we get it bottled up. i was hoping the fermentation would be mostly done by today so i could transfer it over to secondary, but it still needs to drop a few more points before it's ready to move. maybe by saturday... anyways, it smells pretty fucking good and i can't wait to see how much that improves after i add the rest of the hops. if the gravity comes down to where it's supposed to end up (1.014) i should come away with a 6.5% ABV beer with about 60 IBU of fruity, minty hops and a subtle maltiness. if gravity doesn't hit the mark, the malt will be more pronounced but the hops should still be pretty prominent.

that's a bit nit-picky, imo. there's a very real distinction that can be made between "from nature" and "man-made" in that something man-made simply cannot exist on its own in nature. it must first be manipulated by an intelligent force in order to exist. that doesn't make it any less "real," it just means it was crafted rather than simply existing through a natural process.

to be fair, i bet zeni can probably lift more weight than that. he's probably pushing the women away constantly *snicker*, and you know .....pfft..... his types are probably in the 120lb ...range. he's gotta be built like ... like a brick shithouse by now. i'm sorry, i just can't.

can distortion be produced naturally, i.e. without electronic manipulation? i'm pretty sure the answer is no. but distortion is as much a part of modern music as any instrument on its own. so i would hesitate to call distortion "unnatural" by definition. it requires a bit of technology to produce (or rather, re-produce) distortion from an original chunk of audio waves, but it also requires a bit of technology to produce music from pretty much every instrument in existence today. side note, how cool would it have been to be the first guy amplifying an instrument, and discovering distortion by turning up the gain a little too much or playing through a blown speaker. probably scared the shit right out of them.

itt: dane puts his new summon skills on the line in the name of love. nab's dad confuses everyone with age-inappropriate puns...again.

that's great. like three players took time from their victory lap to point it out. she's a keeper.

shit. i'm married with kids, and i look forward to those turkey sandwich nights.

so i took my next brew in a different direction. instead of going after the NEIPA style, i came across a new experimental hop variety called "sabro" that is likely to be the next citra or simcoe (i.e. big disruptor in the hops industry). it was kinda expensive, so i just bought enough for one brew and decided to build my own recipe: an all-sabro IPA. finally got all the ingredients together last week, and we're gonna brew it tonight. if it turns out even halfways decent, i'll probably tweak it a couple times and put it in a local homebrew competition coming up later this year. it's probably a little $$ foolish to only use sabro for an entire recipe, because there are a lot cheaper hops out there for increasing bitterness and i have absolutely no idea how sabro will fare for both bittering and aroma (they're being touted as good for both but we'll see). i've just never brewed with this type before, and i want to get a good idea of what it offers. i feel like this is the best way to do that.

you paid a man to do a thing, then sat there and watched him do it? that's just lazy. jeez.

hell. i'll throw down a $20 site donation in the name of the first person to post a video of themselves deadlifting a 40lb weight 12 times with one arm. amuse me packard.