It's pretty wicked.
1/8 bottle Maui golden rum
3/4 mini (shooter) bottle Johnny Love vodka
unknown amount watermelon juice from fresh Hawaii watermelon
juice of one squeezed lime
pineapple-orange-banana juice to taste
getting ready to dough-in Go to the Dentist! Amber Ale
the end of a vigorous boil, with wort chiller
four days, six batches... and we even avoided acute alcohol poisoning!
the second chief deputy assistant brewer steps up to the plate for a little brewing baseball... diligent application of Rule #1 will do that to you.
EDIT, EDIT, EDIT. AHEM.
cleaning salvaged bottles from the NW regional judging of the NHC
kegerator, with three of the batches force carbonating
broccoli, red cabbage, and green peppers
herb bed
tomatoes and basil
direct sown seeds: onions, red peppers, basil, spinach, and salad mix
some lemon balm, marigolds, and willamette hops in the background
What's So Special About the Turnagain Arm Bore Tide?
Well, it’s huge—one of the biggest in the world, actually. Also, all other bore waves run up low-lying rivers in more southerly latitudes. The Turnagain Arm bore wave is the only one that occurs in the far north and the only one bordered by mountains, making it the most unique and most geologically dramatic bore tide in the world. It’s also amazingly accessible: you can see it by road along its entire 40- to 50-mile length. And it’s a wildlife-spotting opportunity: harbor seals often ride the tide into Turnagain Arm. Beluga whales may come in a half hour or so later once the water gets deeper.
"First I served as a soldier for a year, and then returned as a civilian contractor because I felt I hadn't done enough to make a difference the first time."Hmmm... are you sure that you didn't just want to get paid a hell of a lot better to abuse people and engage in "torture lite"? See, e.g., former US Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis, in his outstanding and brutally honest book Fear Up Harsh, An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq. He writes about a civilian contract interrogator he calls "Eliza" who could quite easily be the despicable woman talking on This I Believe:
"Eliza was former military intelligence. She'd left the army and then came back to Iraq with a private firm, making somewhere between a hundred and two hundred thousand dollars per year to do the same thing we were doing. (Actually, these contractors did a lot less; they didn't have guard duty, latrine duty, or any other of the little bullshit jobs that the army uses to put you in your place.)"She makes the preposterous suggestion that everyone she interrogated at Guantanamo were "murderers and rapists":
"The detainees I worked with were murderers and rapists."But as bizarre and offensive as the commentary was on the whole, the really revolting part was while she talks about how "You never forgot for a moment that, given the chance, they'd kill you to get out" she nevertheless describes her interrogation, and her "clients" conditions, as basically a highly paid (for her) or all-expenses paid (for the prisoners) pleasure cruise:
"We'd meet, play dominoes, I'd bring chocolate and we'd talk a lot."Yes, really: that's a copied and pasted quote. I couldn't make that up if I tried.
People say, "Hate the sin, not the sinner." That is easier said than done, but I learned that there is true freedom in accepting others unconditionally.Uhhh, yeah: it's easy to accept someone unconditionally when they are imprisoned, and sitting across from you shackled while you interrogate them.
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.
