Category: play
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shake ya ass
Biking home from work I got stuck behind a guy who was showing off to anyone who would watch by leaning way back in his saddle and riding no-hands down the trail. We all felt so insignificant that we would never been as cool as he was. I would’ve passed him but, just as I… Read.
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the reason we’re here
There is an unresolved argument in academic circles about whether the invention of beer was the primary reason that people in Mesopotamia, considered the birthplace of Western civilization about 10,000 years ago, first became agriculturalists. By about 3200 BC, around the time the Sumerians invented the written word, beer had already held a significant role… Read.
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the catch
We were watching the movie John Carter of Mars about a week ago and there are two scenes – two! – where the princess of Helium, Dejah Thoris, falls from an airship, or some dizzingly high precipice, and John Carter prevents her from from going splat on the ground by jumping to an amazing height… Read.
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trial boil
Firing up the electric brew kettle with the newly-live control panel! Brew buddy Scott came over last night to facilitate the last step of bringing the control panel on line, which was literally bringing it on line – connecting it to the main circuit breaker panel. He’s done this before; I haven’t, so I took… Read.
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just one more
Just one more reason in my very long list of reasons not to move to Mississippi any time soon. Screen shot taken from The New Yorker’s interactive map of craft breweries across the US. Read.
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lake trout dinner
Lake trout grilled on the trusty Weber for dinner tonight. I laid out two fillets on a sheet of tinfoil with a dollop of butter – *bliss!* There was a moment of doubt when it seemed as though the fire was too hot to do a proper job of cooking the fillets all the way… Read.
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Eldorado
Well, I did not do hardly anything I planned to do today, except go out to breakfast with My Darling B, and drink beer. So the day’s not a total loss. We went to Eldorado Grill for breakfast, first time we’ve ever been. It’s one of those places we’ve driven past almost every day for… Read.
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picnic cooler
I needed a picnic cooler with a drain hole. That was my biggest requirement. And I found several different models that had drain holes, with and without wheels, but they were all big enough to hold a dozen clowns. I didn’t need one that big. I needed a normal-sized picnic cooler, the kind that holds… Read.
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low voltage
The beer-making machine I’ve been steadily putting together for the past four weeks needs a lot of wire for its guts. The instructions tell me I need wire in three different sizes but don’t say how much, so I have to guess, and guessing means I have to keep going back to the hardware store… Read.
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mounted panel
All it’s waiting for is thirty amps of scalding electric current! I got the control panel all but finished this weekend. All the important wiring is done – I ran out of 14 gauge wire before I got a couple of the lights hooked up, but it’ll work without them – and I even managed… Read.
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