A whole lot of news and most of it involves beer.

I started brewing my own beer a couple of weeks ago. I haven't tried any of it yet, but I'm pretty excited about it. I went with a recipe for a pale ale in similar to Bass. The whole process is pretty simple. You begin making tea, basically. You boil some water, put some grains in a bag and then toss the bag in the water and let it steep for a hour or so. Add malt and the boil for another hour or so adding hops at certain points along the way. After five days in teh fermentor you're ready to bottle. Then it's another ten days in the bottle. My first batch should be done by Sunday.

I also picked up a kegerator last weekend as well. It's a converted refridgerator - a really old one with the rounded sides. I spent some time last night spray painting it black. i need to put another coat on tonight and i'm going to add a stel your face sticker to it. It should look pretty wicked.

Sold my Jeep this weekend. It's the end of an era. More than a first car, it was my way of rebeling against my dad out of college. I worked an extra job in order to make the payments. It was worth it.

Tiem to move on to the next stage in automotive maturation. I'm officially a VW driving yuppie now. i think i need to deck myself out in some VW apparell. Get the hat, shirt, etc. Maybe they make VW carseats.

I had a thought this weekend as I was enjoying the beautiful August weather here in Vermont.

August in Vermont is so much like Sundays. Sunday, you have the day off, but there is always that thought in the back of your mind that Monday is not far off and you have to go back to work.

August is the same way. The weather is gorgeous here in VT, but you know that it's going to start getting colder and winter is just around the bend....

Muggy! The heat wave arrives!
I just took a walk around campus here to clear my head and get out some of the frustration that comes from on-line editing. It is freakin' hot out, brother.

Tonight's going to be one of those nights where you're camping out in the basement hoping the dog or wife doesn't touch you because if they did you'll scream it's so hot.

Last day of class. I've been taking this class called LOGO for the last two weeks. If you think back to middle school computer class this is basicaly it. Making shapes with Turtles and making simple games.

Oh yeah, I learned a ton about myself too.

Okay, now i'm really goign to start posting.

Okay, so I'm pretty annoyed with myself at the moment. I spen all day mapping our stupid website only to close the program without saving it.

One full day's work, gone.

Time for beer.