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Very close to having my batch of Jack the Ripper London Ale in the fermentor… chilling the wort right now, which is a slow process without a wort chiller. Basically sitting a boiling (220*F) pot of beer in an ice bath and waiting for it to hit 70*… it’s the reverse of watching a pot of water boil, I suppose.

In addition to bottling my first homebrew yesterday (a beer-cider hybrid) I also ordered a double-edge safety razor, and picked up a shaving soap puck and brush at Meijer’s. Decided to get upgraded shipping on the razor, something I never do, so I can have it down in Florida on vacation. Disposable razors have done their last face mangling on me, and I can buy razors for a week of shaves for <$0.20, bwahaha!

Back to the homebrew, I am going to start up another batch this weekend. Either an IPA or a highly hopped ale. Might go for the ale, just because it’s got a cool name “Jack the Ripper London Ale” (or something like that). Maybe I will make the hoppy ale and just add extra hops to make it more IPA like and call it a day…

My Mom in her insaneness gave me an iPad for my birthday. I’m still a bit speechless. Technically, since they aren’t out yet, she gave me a pile of cash and made me an awesome fake iPad, photo’s of which have actually fooled people. :p Anyways, very, very cool.

I was originally thinking about selling my Dell mini 9 and getting one, but I think I am going to keep it now and hand it down to Asher in a year or so (his Mommy can have custody until then). I might have an iPod touch for sale, soon, though. Thinking a nano would be more convenient for music since the iPad will handle video and apps…

I’m officially 30. Also, can’t wait to be done with this project.

Haven’t posted in a long time. Been using Twitter, but decided it sucks.

Good day today. Slept in, had giant breakfast, got new shoes, finished homework, ate good pizza, might watch a movie yet.

Also, hard cider is progressing nicely. Still seems like 1,000,000 years until it’s ready, though.

I know a girl who broke up with a guy and she told him she wanted to “still be friends.” He said, “No thanks.” She wondered why he couldn’t fall back to being just friends after they had a romantic relationship. I came up with the “McDonalds Analogy” to try and explain it in a simple way that would help all women understand this tough question.

Imagine if you went to McDonalds a lot and ordered a Big Mac Combo meal. A Big Mac, Large Fries and a Coke. You really like this meal. One day, you pull up to the drivethrough and order the Big Mac Combo meal and the girl tells you, “I’m sorry - you can have the Big Mac and the Coke, but you can’t get fries with that anymore.” You think about this for a moment, and sure - the Big Mac is the centerpiece of the meal, but McDonalds has some really good fries and you like their fries with your meal. So you say, “I’ve been able to get fries with that before, why can’t I have fries with my Big Mac combo anymore?” The girls says, “Well, I just think it is better if you only have the Big Mac and the Coke from here on out.”

At this point, a lot of guys are going to go to Wendy’s or BK and see if they can get fries with their combo at that drivethrough window. But there are some guys who REALLY like McDonalds Big Macs and they might think, “If I keep coming here and ordering the Big Mac and Coke, maybe she’ll change her mind and give me some fries with that later.” So they will keep on getting the combo without the fries until the deal breaker happens: One day that guy is going to order the Big Mac and Coke and then he’s going to pull up a little bit to pay, and someone else is going to pull up to the drivethrough speaker and order the “Big Mac Combo” and he is going to hear the girl say, “Would you like fries with that?”

That’s why guys don’t like to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them.

Started to Twitter this, realized that I couldn’t fit it into 140 characters no matter how I tried… but I do have this ignored blog.

iMac is giving me goofy little issues lately. 99.9% sure it’s related to some really craptastic error from doing an in place upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5.0, and then using Time Machine to restore user data into a clean 10.6.0 install.

All of this would be unsurprising if I had a PC, but I typically find my Mac to be free from this sort of frustration. I will have to manually back up all my data, do a clean 10.6 install, reinstall all my apps, and restore all my data by hand.

I have no idea when I will have time to do this, but it’s pissing me off that my Hackintosh Dell mini 9 is running more smoothly (though not as fast) than my redonkulous C2D 2.4ghz iMac.