Oh. And a word of advice. If you ever have a sealed container of activated yeast even if its almost dead. Make sure you release the pressure at LEAST once a day. If you hear a lid or cap that is leaking and its supposed to hold a lot of pressure... open REAL slow while holding the lid over the sink.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm leaving for home!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy! A dose of reality where people actually speak english. No Okies for a week! I get to drive my mr2 back here. That's gonna be a... uh... interesting experience. Hopefully it won't be icy on the way back. Mid engined and slick conditions don't mesh well. And the engine isn't one that ever made it to the Americas and doesn't belong in that car. Am i a bit nervous? Yup. Are the wheel bearings good? Is the coolant system in check with no trapped air? Will the old tires blow out if they get too cold on the way here? Will all the electrical system stay together? (It IS basically homemade. No way to get certain plugs) Did I tighten correctly all the oil fittings? Will any of the sheriffs in any of the hick states give me trouble on the way? Sigh...
Hellooooo all you boring Floridians! YAAYYYY! Its nice here. Mid 70's. I'm happy. I get to fix my mr2. Worked on it alllllll day. Well almost all day. I went to the mall and wal-mart and advance auto. Ate some lunch with my friends. I miss them all. I think i'll become a snowbird. Now, only to retire.
Lots fresher. The anchor steam recipe i made tastes a lot better than the real stuff. The batch i'm making now is the recipe for John Courage Imperial Stout (slightly modified). Its loaded with sugars so its a REAL high gravity beer. It should be around 10% abv.
You shoulda seen that stuff do its initial fermentation! It was bubbling foam out of its airlock for a day! It actually woke me up it was fermenting so strong. It felt like a constant stream of co2 out of the airlock, like it was a leaking cartridge or something. I had to change the airlock out 3 times cause the foam clogged it up and it started leaking out of the lid.
Well fellow floridians, I'm sad. I don't ever get sad. Depressed yes, all the time, but sad, no. My old girlfriend flew up here yesterday to visit for a day. Direct flight/$270. She got in at 2pm yesterday and flew out 2 pm today. I'm lonely up here in Okieville (Floridians and Okies don't really mix) and she did it just to cheer me up. She loves me. We had a good time. Made a fancy dinner, went shopping, had drinks. We spent some hours this morning at a park that has a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Arkansas river in the middle of Tulsa. Had a lot of good conversation (and watched some fly fisherman catch a 5' long fish that looked like it had a ducks bill. It was freaking HUGE!!!!) It made me miss her a lot. She was one of those special loves that comes along like NEVER. She's so pretty. We had some things that were messed up in our relationship and I don't think we're exactly right for each other at the moment but we are still in love. Oh, well. When I was leaving the airport I almost started crying. My eyes teared up and I didn't know what the hell was going on. Thats NEVER happened before. I must be getting sentimental in my old age.
I put the smilies in to break up that post a bit. I had a lot to say i guess.
Sooner or later they all drive you nuts anyway. Just enjoy the good times and ignore the rest. Go home and drink that home brew - that should take the edge off.
La la la di da. Home drinking alone, la la la. You know. If i were to have the power and was in a similar mood, i would nuke a country right now. Not France, which is the one I'd want to but probably one of the ones further away. Then say i did it cause of France. Stinkin Frenchies. Socialists. Bastards. You know, in a recent poll, 3/4 of all french students were hoping for a job in the government. Socialists i say, down to the roots. And when some obscure little country disappears one day, they'll be to blame. Why not just take them out? Too much of our history comes from them. I think i'll just wall them off one day. Make it into a big colony of socialists who can't leave. Unless they're a hot chick. Then they might.
) and she did it just to cheer me up. She loves me. We had a good time. Made a fancy dinner, went shopping, had drinks
. We spent some hours this morning at a park that has a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Arkansas river in the middle of Tulsa. Had a lot of good conversation (and watched some fly fisherman catch a 5' long fish that looked like it had a ducks bill. It was freaking HUGE!!!!
) It made me miss her a lot. She was one of those special loves that comes along like NEVER. She's so pretty. We had some things that were messed up in our relationship and I don't think we're exactly right for each other at the moment but we are still in love. 
Oh, well. When I was leaving the airport I almost started crying. My eyes teared up and I didn't know what the hell was going on. Thats NEVER happened before. I must be getting sentimental in my old age.