I like this time at night on HBT

[CGVT]

Hey Late Nighters.

It's been a while. I spent a week at my in-law's in North Myrtle Beach and have been pretty busy since.

This is a great song by the Wood Brothers. It was written for their mother who died of ALS. Sad and great...

and I don't know why the hell youtube videos aren't embedding for me.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Hey everyone. I see things are still slow around here. It's summer right? Better things to do. Nice song CGVT. That song has soul. Might be a little depressing, but I liked it. Here's a song I've always loved. Not sure if I've posted it before and I'm too lazy to go back and look. I know I've posted songs from this album though. Oh well, it's one worth repeating IMO......

 

[LabRatBrewer]

In San Diego, surrounded by amazing breweries that I cannot stop in this trip. Frustrating. Could be worse, at least I'm not in Fresno

 

[passedpawn]

In San Diego, surrounded by amazing breweries that I cannot stop in this trip. Frustrating. Could be worse, at least I'm not in Fresno

Sorry to hear that. Lots to enjoy there. I just spent a week in Vancouver. Amazing craft beer scene there. Who'd a thunk? My buddy and I walked between at least 7 or 8 breweries Friday.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I had to drive back into OC thid morning for a court hearing. Stopped at home and poured a 64oz growler off the keezer for late tonight back in SD.

Hey...Tour de France is gearing up (pun) greatest 3 weeks in sports.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Funny story. I was standing in line at the post office today getting stamps and the guy behind me was listening to headphones. He must be half deaf and had them turned up really loud. I could hear it plain as day. It was some nightclub sounding music like PP has posted before. You know the offspring and baby got back spin offs. Anyway, it had a lot of swearing in it. The theme was obviously the f word. It was cracking me up. The guy behind the counter was far enough away he couldn't hear it, but he kept glancing at me and was obviously confused as to why I was so amused. I even had to laugh and shake my head a couple times. Hilarious.

Anyway, quit smoking 6 days ago. Been long in the coming. I'm pretty sure it's gonna stick this time. I finally want to. Turns out, that makes a huge difference. Now if I could just stay out of the freakin oreos. Thought about not drinking any beer for a while since it's an obvious trigger, but who wants to do that. Might as well get used to it. Plus I've been having a bit of trouble sleeping and the beer helps with that.

 

[ChefRex]

Funny story. I was standing in line at the post office today getting stamps and the guy behind me was listening to headphones. He must be half deaf and had them turned up really loud. I could hear it plain as day. It was some nightclub sounding music like PP has posted before. You know the offspring and baby got back spin offs. Anyway, it had a lot of swearing in it. The theme was obviously the f word. It was cracking me up. The guy behind the counter was far enough away he couldn't hear it, but he kept glancing at me and was obviously confused as to why I was so amused. I even had to laugh and shake my head a couple times. Hilarious.

Anyway, quit smoking 6 days ago. Been long in the coming. I'm pretty sure it's gonna stick this time. I finally want to. Turns out, that makes a huge difference. Now if I could just stay out of the freakin oreos. Thought about not drinking any beer for a while since it's an obvious trigger, but who wants to do that. Might as well get used to it. Plus I've been having a bit of trouble sleeping and the beer helps with that.

Good luck with the smoking, tough habit to break, you do need to have it in your head that you want to and if you have that your on your way, if you stumble do it again.
Closing in on nine years for me, don't miss it a bit, food tastes better, beer tastes better and you have more coin in your pocket to brew more beer, strength!

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Yeah, food and beer are already tasting better. A lot better. I could stand to put on a little weight, so I'm not worried about that. But I might have to think about an exercise program so I can put it to good use.

 

[passedpawn]

Funny story. I was standing in line at the post office today getting stamps and the guy behind me was listening to headphones. He must be half deaf and had them turned up really loud. I could hear it plain as day. It was some nightclub sounding music like PP has posted before. You know the offspring and baby got back spin offs. Anyway, it had a lot of swearing in it. The theme was obviously the f word. It was cracking me up. The guy behind the counter was far enough away he couldn't hear it, but he kept glancing at me and was obviously confused as to why I was so amused. I even had to laugh and shake my head a couple times. Hilarious.

Anyway, quit smoking 6 days ago. Been long in the coming. I'm pretty sure it's gonna stick this time. I finally want to. Turns out, that makes a huge difference. Now if I could just stay out of the freakin oreos. Thought about not drinking any beer for a while since it's an obvious trigger, but who wants to do that. Might as well get used to it. Plus I've been having a bit of trouble sleeping and the beer helps with that.

I quit smoking a bunch of years ago. Actually, I quit smoking many times in my life. It stuck when I decided to replace smoking with running. Turns out that worked. Can't smoke when you're running, and running definitely took away the urge. Running (which I wasn't good at) was an intensity that blew away the urge to smoke, which can be intense in itself. When I got the urge, I ran. I remember running several times a day.

Also, don't kid yourself that you can have one. You can't. I went cold turkey and I'll never, ever touch one again. I know what one leads to.

Here's a thread I started on the topic. Maybe you can glean something from it. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/i-quit-smoking-472902/

Here, this is for you:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn40B9ugcrs[/ame]

 

[lschiavo]

I'm proud of you quitters. I need to join your club. I have to grow the balls to go cold turkey. I need a replacement like PP's running. Life sure would be different and better without such a stupid habit.

I waxed up the window sill and set it in its place. It fit...like a glove...

 

[HefeHood]

Nice job Ischiavo. Looks a bit wet outside. Wish we had rain...sigh. Don't remember the last time moisture fell from the sky.

 

[lschiavo]

Nice job Ischiavo. Looks a bit wet outside. Wish we had rain...sigh. Don't remember the last time moisture fell from the sky.

Thank you. Now to find the time to finish the rest of the bathroom...

It did actually rain today. I think my neglected deck makes it look wet. We are having great grass growing weather. I can tell you that. I can't keep up.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

My connection is spotty. I only smoke when I'm on fire, sadly with my diy skills ill likely lose a lung. Good luck

 

[lschiavo]

My connection is spotty. I only smoke when I'm on fire, sadly with my diy skills ill likely lose a lung. Good luck

Well, at least you can drink and ramble. I hope you're drinking

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Well, at least you can drink and ramble. I hope you're drinking

It's quite likely

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Don't lose hope Ischiavo. I don't think it has anything to do with balls. It's just something you have to make up your mind to do. I guess you just have to decide which you like more. Living or smoking. I choose life. This isn't the first time I've quit. The longest I've made it is 2 months. But it was agonizing from day one. It's different this time somehow, I really don't want one. Although I have been craving it from time to time. It's more annoying than it is torture this time. Anyway, here's a tune for you.

 

[DrunkleJon]

IMO you are right and mindset has a lot to do with it. If you treat it like toilet training a kid it can go much better. Reward yourself for reaching milestones (not with a smoke obviously). Put the money you would have spent on cigarettes into a jar and buy yourself something nice with it. Avoid your smoking friends during the first month or so if possible. Replace the habit with another, positive one. Be it exercise, stepping up your brewing, learning the guitar or origami or something. Do not let yourself get bored or else your fingers/lungs will get itchy for another puff. Complain to your friends here on HBT when you need to. It helps.

 

[Dan]

Alohaaaa! I haven't posted for some time so you know this will be a book.

Been away a little while and miss you guys. BBL, I'm rooting for you on giving up the habit. Learn from me, don't take up smokeless tobacco. It's even more addictive. Ask me how I know. Some good advice given here and I think DJ knocked it outta the ball park. I might even try that method.... no, I'm fooling myself.

I'm glad everybody is doing well and keeping this thread going. You're a great bunch of folks and I'm happy to be a part of this thread.

Dang those centipedes!! Let me ramble a minute and I'll get to that.

The other night I was tearing apart a thrown away rotary push mower for the hard plastic wheels (Honolulu county does a once a month by your house curbside bulk waste pickup - anything goes) I collected the mower from the bulk waste site.. I'm not to proud to say that - it was in great shape!

I planned to use the wheels on the back of a raised planter. One problem with the idea. That planter is effing heavy! Five cubic yards of wet soil, a bunch of lumber, it is backed up to the fence and sits on rough ground. I'm not going to be able to move it far enough away from the fence to install the wheels... Well, I probably will get a wild hair and figure a way to move it, just not now.

I tried using the mower a few times and then came to the realization the yard is to small to maintain the wheel speed necessary to effectively spin the rotary cutter. I can repurpose this thing, salvage parts of it.. I half heartedly considered cleaning the rust off the rotary blade making it a mash churner.. haha.. I don't know how that would work but it could really - maybe. My wife wants the long handle to use for her tomato plants, there are six 2" rollers I could use for something someday. I now have two 7 inch hard plastic wheels with the steel framing to mount to my vegetable stand.

So, centipedes. The evening I tore the mower apart and salvage some parts I wasn't thinking about centipedes. I took off the first wheel by removing the snap clip from the axle. Easy. Then I removed the axle, pretty easy too. My wife then walked outside to see how things were going and I held up the first salvaged wheel.. I was sort of proud. I flipped it over, felt something on my hand and looked down as a freaking 4 inch ugly nasty centipede had just started to dig into my ring finger. I flinched my hand and the centipede went flying. Not before he started to dig into the flesh. I was pretty lucky the little bastard was just starting to dig in.

I think my wife's terrifying stories of centipedes are probably slightly over exaggerated but maybe not. The little bugger only just broke the skin. My finger ached like it was smashed by a hammer, I took off my ring right away..Goggled centipede stings and followed the directions. Hot soapy water and a lot of rinsing. That really worked, it still swelled up but the pain mostly went away. I was barely stung, probably no worse than a wasp sting in the micro second he got me. I'd hate to know what it's like if the bug really stuck his legs into me.. Ouch! I'm now even more paranoid, healthy paranoia.

Topics on HBT range quite a lot. I recently came across a Presto 23qt pressure canner. It was not from the bulk waste pile But might as well been, it was free. Looking forward to canning. Might try something simple like jam for my first attempt.

Cheers everybody! Hope you all have a great 4th of July weekend!

 

[passedpawn]

Holy hell, man-eating centipedes.

That pressure canner is the real deal. At 15psi you can put anything in cheap ball jars (Walmart). I canned turkey this past christmas; it's still in my cabinet.

 

[Dan]

Holy hell, man-eating centipedes.

That pressure canner is the real deal. At 15psi you can put anything in cheap ball jars (Walmart). I canned turkey this past christmas; it's still in my cabinet.

I've been YouTubing canning videos and found the owners manual for the Presto 23 qt canner. Now I'm thinking time for a garden! In the canning PDF there was a section on canning raw chicken.. Instantly thought of you Pappy!

 

[Dan]

side note to centipedes.. sort of or almost the same in my book.. Yesterday an 18" lizard was found on Pearl Harbor base. Head the size of a baseball. Apparently it came from a cargo ship that originated somewhere in Southeast Asia.

 

[DrunkleJon]

side note to centipedes.. sort of or almost the same in my book.. Yesterday an 18" lizard was found on Pearl Harbor base. Head the size of a baseball. Apparently it came from a cargo ship that originated somewhere in Southeast Asia.

There are some really strange huge animals in Asia. Watch out for those buggers, they can take your arm off if you are not careful.

 

[Chadwick]

The Asian hornets frighten me to death. There were two confirmed sightings of them last year in Kentucky. Opposite ends of the state too. I'm determined if I see anything that looks like a giant Sand Hornet (European Hornet, I think) with a yellow face, I'm following it home so I can locate the nest. Then I'll return again with hell-fire, damnation, and possibly even semi-automatic weapons. I hate, and I cannot stress enough, hate invasive hornet species. I'm not too fond of some of the native ones either......

 

[BBL_Brewer]

You guys are cracking me up tonight. And I'm not even drunk.

I hear ya on the centipedes there Dan. Had some big ugly bastards over on Wake Island too. They make spiders look like wimps. Luckily I was never stung, but I was warned ahead of time to watch out for them and I did.

Invasive hornets huh. Well, if you've got them in Kentucky, it won't be long until we have them too. Great.......

 

[Dan]

Centipede haters club.. I'm prez!

My wife took the last two days off work. Believe me, it was nice and crowding at the same time.


My oldest daughter (she's my stepdaughter of 14 years..I guess I explain that just cause.. You guys have probably figured that out already.. my insecurity showing.

Anyway, lets just call my stepdaughter Kim. Last week she was named one of Hawaii's top forty business persons under forty. Nice awards ceremony followed. I got to admit, listening to some of these young people's accomplishments was pretty humbling. In the crowd of them were more than a couple entrepreneur millionaires. I suppose that's why they are in the top forty crowd.

I got to admit, I'm just a retired Navy Chief. The crowd there sort of freaked me out.. Some people make lots of money and some of us profit from a good paying job because of these folks. Makes the world go round.

Where was I going with this.... Oh ya. My oldest daughter was coming over for dinner tonight. Nothing fancy but I feel happy with what I made.

Ham, green bean casserole ( I made the mushroom gravy and fried onions that top it) Some mashed potatoes, a store bought Pecan pie and some store bought Vanilla ice cream for desert.

I called Kim to let her know dinner was going to be an hour later than planned. She informed me she thought dinner had been cancelled so she made other plans..

I'd like to spell out two words, one begins with "F" and the other "M" But I won't.

Wife and I will have a pretty nice dinner tonight but alone. Quite a few times in my life (Sundays especially) I want to take food to folks who need a nice meal more than me. I'd like to share. My stereotypic (I guess) fear of the homeless keeps me from doing that.

That pisses me off about myself.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

No centipedes but tall birds

 

[Dan]

That's a nice looking beer LRB. cute bird too

 

[BBL_Brewer]

You're such an honest guy Dan and you're not afraid to say what's on your mind. I admire that about you.

Being around homeless people can be a little weird, but you get over it pretty quick. They're not wild animals. My Dad volunteers at the local rescue mission and ropes me in on occasion. I should probably go help out more than I do considering the amount of free time I have. A lot of the folks that work there are homeless and have to pitch in and help out to earn their keep. I was very uncomfortable around them at first because you feel so opposite of them. I almost felt like I was teasing them with my Nike shoes and my Midnight Sun Brewing Company tee shirt that I got while visiting Alaska. It's a humbling experience, I'll tell you that. Makes you want to stop wasting stuff that most of us take for granted.

Been waking up with night sweats something terrible. It has to be because I quit smoking, I haven't changed anything else. Luckily there's a pattern to it. I go to sleep, wake up drenched, go back to sleep and then everything's fine until morning. I'm on to this plan now. Towels are my friend. I was getting sick of washing sheets everyday. Sorry if that grosses everyone out.

 

[Dan]

Thanks BBL. I have a tendency to share a bit too much about myself here but in general I'm okay with that.

I have lots time on my hands. You got me thinking about volunteering, there are a lot of homeless in Hawaii. Take a vacation to Waikiki and you'll see them living in the parks. In the news today was a story about a group of homeless being kicked off U of H grounds yesterday morning and by afternoon the people, tents, and shopping carts returned.

A reporter interviewed one man who worked but couldn't afford to rent let alone buy (the average single family dwelling home in Honolulu is 626K - which is why I live in a townhouse far by Hawaii measure from Honolulu) The man is a father of two. He told the reporter he gets together every night with a group of friends and they share their food and prepare the dinner meal ohana* style, and then they have prayer time.


My wife told me a she went to school with a homeless girl but her friend didn't realize her family was homeless! They lived in a big tent on the beach, her father fished, they cooked their meals on a grill and used the public toilet and shower. The girl is all grown up now of course and my wife and her are still friends. She says she remembers her childhood fondly. I suppose home really is where the heart is, money can't replace that (can make it more comfortable though :smack She was just a kid loving life like any other kid.

BBL, sounds like you're going through the roughest part now, withdrawal. Hang in there buddy! I wish I could be an example of how to conquer nicotine addiction but I am not. I'm a fool stubborn headed idiot at times. That works well if used in the right direction but is equally opposite in the wrong direction. I'm thinking too much now.. got myself all confused.


Kick nicotine's arse BBL! I think the number one thing going in your favor is you have decided now is the time and you're going to do it!!

*'Ohana is a group of both closely and distantly related people who share nearly everything, from land and food to children and status. Sharing is central to this value. In Hawaiian culture, being a member of a family is more important than the individual

 

[passedpawn]

Kick it in the nuts, BBL! Chuck Norris Style!

And now, some music to get my holiday wkend going right. For your 4th of July weekend soundtrack, Franki Valli.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJgOt0RQfQ[/ame]