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I’ve been losing the support game for three straight days now, and it’s starting to piss me off. Thus, I shall now blow half an hour on LJ. My sister is coming into town today to interview at Boston U.. I plan to meet her after the interview tomorrow and bring her back to Providence . . . → Read More: Support The coffee monkey is strong today. My mojo is weak. The coffee monkey demands coffee … and I can only obey. More coffee for the monkey. Freakin’ monkeys man. [hits *reload* on cnn.com, livejournal, and fark.com] My cat is being really annoyingly affectionate today. She’s been circling the laptop. Circling and circling. Doing the face-rub on the corner of the monitor. Stopping in front of the keyboard for a hug or a nose-kiss. Back around to cheek-rub the corner of the screen. Back up front. Round and round. Circling and . . . → Read More: Cat I’m reaching for the computer around a loudly purring cat, who has found that the best way to get a hug in the morning is to sit directly in front of the laptop. Irritating, but very cute. It’s hard to be angry at something that’s just expressing affection. Spent yesterday fighting with the support . . . → Read More: Morning Racked the Red Storm this evening. This is going to be some scary, experimental stuff. It started off with a gravity of 1.12. That’s freakishly high. It’s fermented down to around 1.06, which means it’s nowhere NEAR complete. I may need to rack it again at this rate. Anyway, even though we’re at the edge . . . → Read More: Day. Good times at the a cappella competition last night. The surrounding events were a little surreal. To get there, I googled up some directions. Said directions put me on a road named “Poverty Hollow.” Initially, the road was okay, but it kept getting narrower and more winding, heading into the back woods of CT. . . . → Read More: Hovel New essay is online Financial Planning. All the rest of them are here. Driving 2.5 hours south to CT today to see my friend Mark and to judge a high school a cappella competition he’s organized. I’ve done this before, and the high school groups are actually much better than might be expected. Their . . . → Read More: New essay: Financial planning Stout Maiden: A cherry stout from a northern brewer kit. One week each of primary and secondary fermentation and one week bottle conditioning. Nice cherry nose. Deep black color. Slightly watery mouth feel. Dark but not bitter. Slightly sweet. Almost no hop character. Underwhelming, but not offensive in any way. Not much head. Nader an . . . → Read More: Tasting notes, Stout Maiden and Nader Brews. I just got around to exploring the goodie-bag that I got at the junket. it included a pair of headphones. Noise canceling headphones. These, specifically. Wow. Not sure how I got into this particular club, but I think I want to stay here. –UPDATE– *damn* these are some nice headphones. Clean, punchy bass all the . . . → Read More: Good junket. |
