Gilligan and I met at 9:30 this freezing AM for 2 hours of riding at racoon mountain. The trails were a bit obscured with the freshly fallen leaves but overall it was very enjoyable. Well almost everything was. My feet got pretty cold even though the rest of me stayed nice and toasty.
After a long hiatus I have decided to start making homebrew again. My first 2 batches are kitsI got from Homebrew Heaven, a Red Ale and a Belgian White Ale. Both of these kits are very well put together with superb instructions that even a beginner could follow. Since I am not a beginner but I did need to refresh my skills and memory I followed them to the letter.
I will publish more video and pictures as the process continues.
Here is some video of fermentation 12 hours after adding the yeast.
Well tonight (I know short notice) is a great one at JJ’s Bohemia. The Apes w/ An Albatross and local acts Coral Castles and Forest Magic.
Later this month we have Monotonix.
Well I had very high expectations for this movie and I was a bit let down. It could have been a really excellent film but instead it was only an OK film. Oh well, I guess you can’t win them all especially when Hollywood marketing is largely responsible for all the hype.
If you actually do pay attention to this blog you will notice that my posting has slacked off for awhile. The grip of summer heat has finally let go and cool fall temperatures have settled in. I have been real busy with work and not wanting to touch the computer after I get home when I do most of my posts here so they have not been happening.
So what have I been up to? The cooler weather has encouraged me to start running again a few times a week. I have worked back up to 3.5-4 miles at a reasonable pace (for me) and hope to be up to 6 soon. I don’t currently have any events lined up that I am training for but I have been considering the Families on the Run 10K that falls around my birthday and the 5K Grateful Gobbler that happens the morning of Thanksgiving. If anybody wants to have a good time before you stuff yourself to the gills with Turkey you should come and participate in the Grateful Gobbler.
I need to be unemployed for a few months.
I had a great time this weekend riding the SVC metric century. I was a bit spent after the event but I recovered by late afternoon due to a nice long nap. Hope to see all of you on the road again soon and if not soon at the 3 State 3 Mountain challenge in May.
I recently got a new phone at work and it is a pretty darn nice device. Beyond the normal stuff you get with a cell phone this thing is more like a handheld computer than a phone. It has email capability, internet browsing as well as some systems administration tools like remote desktop viewer and I added an SSH client so I can log into my work servers and fix any problems that may occur. I used this SSH feature on the way home from work yesterday to restart the DNS server at work which had run out of memory and was responding sluggishly.
This is the first time in awhile I have been generally excited about anything to do with my job in many months. Adding this nice tool to my belt will make my job easier and keep things running smoother. The customers should be happier and I will be also.
| July 2, 2007 |
My brother Jordan’s birthday.
It won’t be long and I will be on a vacation and I have to say that I can hardly wait. I will be skipping out of town next Thursday to drive up to Indianapolis, Indiana for the Unites States Grand Prix race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway along with 150,000 other fans of F1 racing. My friend Mike and I went up last year just for the race but this year we are going to experience the whole event, practice, qualification and all the pit stuff. I should be standing very close to a million dollar Ferrari very soon and perhaps getting the autographs of some F1 drivers to boot. I will have lots of pictures to post from my trip.
