Some thoughts from my e-mail with E

(a.k.a. my favoritest and bestest sister)

First, a Utah Phillips qoute:

But if it's true the only real life I have is the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that at the end of the day they will give it back in an unmutilated condition?"

Next, a couple of the things I told her I need to go do: tunnel a hole in the door frame of the man door between our garage and the side driveway, so we can more easily plug in the engine block heater of the car. Welcome to Alaska.

Finally, tomorrow's homebrew:

Bog Monster

Roughly:

8# Crisp Maris Otter
1# organic white wheat
1# 10L crystal
1.75# peated malt

mash 149*F for 60 min, mash out 170*F, batch sparge

60 min: .25oz Columbus 13.7% pellet
40 min: .25oz Columbus 13.7% pellet
20 min: .25oz Columbus 13.7% pellet

Safale US-05 rehydrated

Should only take about a year in bottles to be drinkable. Yum!