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The GF (affectionately known as The Yizz, but that's a story for another time) and I are building a house. Throughout my lifetime, I'm sure I've lived on a septic system at some point, in fact, I know I have. But I've never lived on one as an adult who is responsible for my own actions. The...

Alright, you clowns. I need some help. Yes, again... We're in the process of building a house. I'm a DIY type, but a project of this magnitude is beyond my attention span. So we got the pros coming in. But I'm still unbelievably fascinated by the whole process. I got some great ideas...

I'm getting ready to sell my house so I can build a new one. Trying to get stuff cleared out so we can move... then move again. All this to say that I don't see any brewing in my near future. Possibly up to a year. I have a small stash of hops that I'd rather not try to keep track of...

A few weeks ago I got into a literal fender bender. It was at a 4 way intersection, I had the right of way and ended up at a complete stop, and she still drove right into me. Says she never even saw me. If you want more details I can provide them, but they don't really add much to my...

It's been a rough winter at work, and the work isn't done yet. Me and the GF have been looking at a three day getaway in April to San Diego. We already have the reservations made and now we need to fill in the rest of the itinerary. First on the list is Stone Brewing. But which is better...

A group of eight of us are going to Detroit to see a Tigers game this Saturday. We plan on getting to town early so we can have a few beers and maybe some dinner before the game. The guy who organized this is insistent upon going to Hockeytown, which I have no problem with. I've been there...

To combat my ever shrinking belt epidemic, I've decided to take up running. I hate running. I always have. I recognize the benefits of running (no memberships required, you can do it nearly anywhere, only a small initial investment required), but despite that I have chosen this path. And I find...

I've been home brewing for somewhere around five years. I started with extracts, slowly accumulated all the gear for all grain and kegging and now moving toward a brew sculpture and RIMS/HERMS type system. I brew probably 8-10 batches a year. I'm really the only person who drinks it so it seems...

I got a book for Christmas, Brewing Classic Styles, and when I got to the section about Oktoberfests, I was highly intrigued. So I'll be making my first lager, and I want to check my info on the process to mak sure I got this right. I am essentially copying the recipe in the book so I'm not...

http://screen.yahoo.com/mansome-episode-103-beer-130000697.html Let the comments begin...

http://news.yahoo.com/uss-enterprise-carrier-taken-active-211422506.html The world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The place I called home for about six and a half years. I find myself oddly depressed and don't understand why. While I was in, I effing hated it and couldn't wait to...

My dad will be retiring at the end of this year, and I would like to get him a nice retirement gift. He started his career on the railroad, I think it was as a switchman, but he got laid off in the early 1980s and never got a chance to return. My grandfather also worked on the railroad and...

Not gratus fermentatio. But it made you look.;) My girlfriend just got an awesome job. She had been working at a major chain restaurant, not quite national, but pretty close. She had spent the past two and a half years making her intentions known and working toward being a full salaried manager...

I've been brewing for a few years, off and on. At some point, I realized I had all the equipment I needed to make the wine in a box kits and did that for a bit. A buddy of mine had an interest in the wine, so I showed him what I know about it. We split the cost on a couple of kits and made it...

I have an Ipad 2. I suspected before I bought it that it would be just an expensive toy. And it is. But the GF likes using it to read her books. Which I don't mind, but it seems like kind of a waste for an expensive toy with so much computing power, not that my activities are any more...

Ok. So I'll be in Vermont for pretty much the entire month of October for work. My company is sending two of us out that way from Western Michigan. So we'll be heading out pretty early on Sunday morning and crossing through Canada. We figure we'll be around the Buffalo or Rochester areas...

I complain about insurance companies as much as the next guy, but I am really glad I've been paying those premiums. My 14 year old son is in football for his second year. He moves around different positions a lot, but he mostly plays tight end, tackle, and middle defensive back. He's a big...

I'd like to get my sub renewal in the mailbox today. First PM gets it, and I only have three openings in my mailbox so if it's full you can probably assume that it's already spoken for. Thanks.

We had a pretty massive storm roll through my town today while I was at work. Winds upward of 70 MPH, but as far as I know, no tornado sightings. But a LOT of downed trees. There were a lot of streets closed to clean up the damage. This is down by the waterfront. Holland, being a town...

A few months ago, maybe as much as 4 months, one of my headlights on my new (used) car went out. No big deal, I'll just get replacements. Being a new car, and not knowing how old the lights were, I decided to replace both of them so that I can know the history of the parts. So I went to an...