That's very cool. I would definitely have it appraised. I'd be concerned that it's a reproduction. Seems like something you could by at a gift shop somewhere.
Yes, you can use it. Doesn't matter if it's aluminum either (which I doubt it is). Aluminum is fine for brewing, I have an aluminum turkey fryer pot that I use on extract batches.
I'm definitely shotgunning at least one this weekend. I've been wanting to do it since I saw they were coming out with cans. If I remember, I'll post pics.
I'm pretty sure he has a house in Miami which is probably why he was going there. I don't think it was a Dolphin's plane.
I would like to see him go to KC or Washington.
Oh, and if you don't want to pay for cable, get a set of rabbit ears to pick up local hd channels if you can get reception in your area. That'll take care of local sports, news etc.
Get Nice computer speakers. Cheaper tv, Use Wii for Netflix and Hulu. Nice laptop. That's what i would do. $250 is going to get you a really bad laptop, you can get something decent for $450-$500. A decent 1080P Tv is pretty cheap these days, use the Wii for internet content. It won't be in HD...
Back in college a buddy and I had a website that made fun of the local townies in the small college town (Radford VA). Walmart was a goldmine for content. The site was actually getting a ton of traffic until the person hosting it had to shutdown for unrelated reasons. If only we could've kept it...
Dreams are funny like that. I have nightmares about work on occasion, I'm not particularly stressed about work at the time, but I still have them. We put a lot of mental energy into something and I think that it manifests itself in our dreams. So the "topic" of the dream isn't always that...