It's inconceivable!

Mmmmm... Beer.

Oh yeah... It was worth the wait. Nice and hoppy, but not too bitter. I've had two so far this afternoon.

Bottled and resting...

OK... So I shoulda posted this earlier.

Bottling day was on April 26th. I yielded 38 bottles. It should have been more, but I didn't top off the fermentor to a full 5 gallons. (I don't know why, but it didn't occur to me until later that I should have done that. Oh well...)

It's been two weeks now. I tried a bottle after a week and the carbonation wasn't as much as it could have. We'll see what it's like now after a full two weeks.

Bottling day this weekend??

The brew is starting to clear up in the secondary. Time to bottle?? Maybe this weekend.

Update: Naaahhh... Not this weekend. Too much happening and the beer isn't quite clear enough yet. Another week or so won't hurt anything.

So far, so good

The wort was a wonderful color. (Yeah... I know; ya shoulda taken pictures, Red.) The yeast got happy. They got real happy after about 12 hours. Now it's time to rack off to the secondary fermentor.

Update: OK... Here's a visual aid...



Unfortunately, there's no HTML tags for smell cuz it smells wonderful!

Taking the plunge...

(OK... I know that I haven't written anything for a while; not here, at least. I've done plenty of popping off over at FreeRepublic.)

For years now I've been interested in getting into home brewing. I don't know why, but it sounded like fun. There's just something appealing about a cooking process where time is an essential ingredient. Well, I've finally taken the plunge. As I write this, my first batch is boiling away on the stove. And so far, watching (mostly) water boil has been fun.

More later.

DON'T TAZE ME, BRO!!

As I write this, Google reports that there are ~195,000 web pages with the phrase "don't taze me bro".

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When you lie down with dogs...

What do you wake up with when you lie down with nutters? Our own Senator DiFi finds out as Code Pinkos waterboard some poor schlep while she walks by. A bunch of anti-war nutjobs waterboarded one of their own as DiFi tried to enter a building. The look on her face is just priceless!

Well Senator... They may be nuts, but they're your nuts!

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Now they think it's their money, even before you've earned it!

In the AP story Internet Tax Moratorium Goes to Bush comes this odd line...

Support for a permanent ban [on Internet taxes] was strong in both the House and Senate, but concerns over the potential long-term impact on state and local governments forced a compromise.

The only "long term impact" is that they aren't being allowed to claim your money before you've made it! It's bad enough that Democrats think that what you make is theirs to play with. Now they want a claim on any future earnings.

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Leave it to Bill to over-engineer a simple task

Use DDT. Duh.

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MSMers get it wrong again

The editors at Al Reuters, gets their title muddled in Reid-Limbaugh spat raises $2.1 million for children. It was $4.2 million. Rush matched the winning bid, as the writer Thomas Ferraro gets correct toward the end of the article. But being as this is on Al Reuters, Ferraro just had to give the last word to one of Dingy Harry's spokesholes.

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Dingy Harry's gotta be p****d

SHOCKING BUT TRUE: MSM get one right!!

Earlier today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that no MSM outlets other than Fox New were picking up on his eBay auction for the Dingy Harry smear letter. Well, now the story's starting to get some notice.

Over on USAToday.com, the OnPolitics blog mentions the story. What's surprising is that they get it right. They don't state that Rush called anti-war soldiers "phony soldiers". They simply say that he used those words. (And he did, to describe Jesse Macbeth.) Furthermore, the USAToday column gets it right in one of the links on that page. If you look at the page, you will see a link to a pdf of the letter. Note the file name: http://www.usatoday.com/news/pdf/rushlimbaughsmearletter.pdf. This is the original file name on Rush's site. They didn't make a change; they left it properly described as a smear.

Broken clocks perhaps? Let's hope that it's more than that.

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Ubama: Those who wear flag pins are 'phony patriots'

HE SAID THE "P" WORD!!

Not really, but if MediaMatters can play that way...

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ROTFLMAO!

VISTA SUCKS

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PWN3D!

Weigh in here on this weighty issue.

The little dweeb went from monkey humping to monkey dumping faster than a drunken debutante's dress can hit the floor on prom night. And if you're reading this Jonny, that ringing in your ears isn't from eating the stage; it's the sound of your fifteen minutes expiring.

...which kinda takes me to another issue that left me confused. How is it that shows like Survivor or The Simple Life are called "reality TV". MTV got it right when they called one of their series "The Surreal Life". There's nothing real about these shows. If Paris Hilton and Nichole Ritchie really did make a habit out of visiting pig farms, then perhaps the shows might be aptly named. I'm not saying that they can't be entertaining (for someone else). I'm just saying that they're about as real as a Clinton promise.

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'e's just resting'

This blog isn't dead. It's just pinin' for the fjords.

The Death of Blogs

The article makes an observation:

...What tired bloggers are increasingly discovering...is that it's not necessarily the quality of their blog posts that matter. It's matching their quality with frequency...

Which is true. No one wants to read pointless babbling, and trust me, I don't want to write any. (Not that I'm not good at inane babble; but, there's a time and a place for such things. Cheese threads on FreeRepublic are a fine example!) Sometimes, though, there's just not much that catches my fancy to write about. Believe me, I try to ferret out stuff to blog. Mostly, I do so for our NRA Members' Council website. I've found that fresh bloggery attracts new visitors better than anything else. The entire site suffers when I don't update the blog page for a day or two.

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I've got The Waitresses playing in my head

Will Fred Thompson finally stop teasing and end the Dance of the Seven Veils?

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"Vaporware"

Seen on LGF...

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One eBayer's reaction to the eBan...

Hurry up and place your bid on a gen-you-wine, full-auto, assault rock.

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