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| So two days ago I brewed my first batch of beer. It's currently fermenting a few feet from me. I bought one of the relatively easy kits. There's actually a homebrew store with a dude who's really into it a few blocks from my house. It's the only one in New Orleans I think as well. Anyways it's something that's intrigued me since my old roommate did it and if he can do it, so can I!
Yea I've had a number of friends try it as well so it can't be that bad.
It wasn't that hard at all and kinda fun. The kit comes with some basic book instructions and how things work. I am already thinking about ways to 'spice' it up next time. I mean I'll still by the pre-mix kits without the all grain process (which is the hard part at the start) and try mixing in some extra hops or maybe a touch of fruit or something. I dunno, I might just stick with the box recipee if it turns out good. But you know, I'd like to play around.
It will be a red ale, the kit of ingredients cost $35 and should yield about 50 beers. So that's a deal. A 6-pack of bud light bottles costs like $6.27, and I bet this is better, and I might be able to find a way to make it extra better or extra stronger or both too.
I'm excited next weekend I'll do the bottleing then it should be drinkable for like Mard-gras before I leave for Australia.
Woooo!
http://www.homebrewing.com/true-brew.php
The only challenge now is that I need to get another like 20bottles in 10 days to put the beer in.
Challenge accepted. | | |
| So Lai asked for posts and updates about the race. We have a pretty thorough blog made from the race part of the trip at
http://thehindipendants.net/
It has blogs on everything as well as a good number of pictures. I'll probably try to get a post up about it as a more general recap at some point.
For those interested thou, check the website, there are some pictures there and I will be getting to uploading my pictures to facebook in a week or so.
Yes, that is Jesus with a shotgun on the back of ours. | | |
| So on the last track of the Camp Album... "That Power" It ends with a sort of monologue about what I assume is a true story about him getting hurt by a girl persay and what happened from it.
Reminds me a lot of myself. Listen to it, it's a pretty awesome story about that cutesy wonder of relationships and vulnerability and that sort of thing.
Anyways the somewhat conclusion that he gets at least is this:
"this is a story about how I learned something and I’m not saying this thing is true or not,
I’m just saying it’s what I learned.
I told you something...
It was just for you... and you told everybody.
So I learned cut out the middle man,
make it all for everybody,
always.
Everybody can’t turn around and tell everybody,
everybody already knows, I told them.
But this means there isn’t a place in my life for you or someone like you.
Is it sad? Sure. But it’s a sadness I chose."
But yea, no matter what you do and all that sort of shit, you can't ever really trust somebody like that. THAT'S HOW I FEEL.
You can trust people for sure. But when it comes down to it anything you say or do, is property of everyone now a days. We don't have that privacy and security we used to have.
(post about civil liberties this will not be)
Anyways I relate a lot to this as well as Robyn's song "indestructible."
Basically that I wish I could say things do things, open up be vulnerable. But I don't and won't. I refuse to be truly vulnerable and ever get hurt again.
This is why I think I'll never really get true love and wild happiness again. I will settle at some point thou. | | |
| So I have pretty much spent all day tagging locations in pictures on facebook. Seeing some old pictures. I am not friends with her and cannot click her page, but Melanie Becvar is listed as Melanie Vazquez now.
I was always kinda jealous when she talked about this Argentinian dude that she said would slap her bum at work and flirt with her. She kept saying he was a dick but it was obvious she really liked him. Then later she said it was just sex and nothing more. I assume it's all just turned out for them.
I dunno.
I always really wanted to bone her again. We definitely got drunk or just flirty a couple times and she told me about how she was good at sex now and apologized for it being so bad back when we were dating.
She was always a lot of fun and I thought she was cool and pretty.
But she was kinda dumb seeming at the time (I mean she was 19-20.) She dyed her hair brown.
Last time I saw her she was living on her own in Chicago. Had grown her hair back long and blonde again. She had even lost a little weight.
I took her out for a sushi dinner, which is still to this date the most expensive dinner for two I've ever gotten.
I wanted her bad. She had finally become real and grown up and not actually an idiot.
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Confirmed via text message. It was the Argentinean dude.
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I guess she turned her life into something some sort of regular and happy and good.
That's number two down on the ex-girlfriend getting married list. This time I added a new ex to the list tho so I've still got a small buffer before it catches up to me. | | |
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