I like this time at night on HBT

[Dan]

Here's a heart rendering song, maybe a reflection of my mood. Missing my wife on a Saturday night. We will be back together soon.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Here's a heart rendering song, maybe a reflection of my mood. Missing my wife on a Saturday night. We will be back together soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFx0MMqb48

Sheryl Crow is fantastic.

 

[Dan]

She is, and Kid Rock too. Got to admit I don't listen to either one of them much. Maybe I should.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Another nice voice:

 

[Leadgolem]

Mike, loving the Gypsy Kings.

Somebody answer a question please?

Why is it easy to meet wonderful people of like values and interest on HBT but not in my own home town? Don't get me wrong, I've met some good people in this town and have good neighbors.

Is it the distance and anonymity that makes it easy to make friends from afar?

But I truly miss the people I severed with.

I'm actually asking for help here. I spent nearly 27 years in the Navy. It was my life, the people I knew, I knew well. We worked very long hours together in places as beautiful as Hawaii and scary as Iraq. We became family.

Since retiring I've gotten a bit lost. Actually a lot lost.

The anonymity helps. Another major factor is numbers. How many people do you think have seen this thread and never commented? Only the people who are willing to be social to some degree ever respond to a thread.

Howdy Dan!

Homemade pizza sounds good. I haven't made one in a while. I like doing the spent grain thing. I also use beer yeast instead of bakers yeast and wort instead of water. The beer yeast takes a lot longer to rise, but it sure makes a tasty dough.

Enjoy your pizza and the time with your daughter!

The time probably helps with the flavor more then you might think. It's not a bad idea to let your dough rise in the fridge over night. The extra time gives the yeast more of an opportunity to develop some flavor.

She is, and Kid Rock too. Got to admit I don't listen to either one of them much. Maybe I should.

I didn't know you liked Kid Rock.


Here's the picture I promised LRB. This is all the brewing stuff I picked up on my last visit to the Asian market.

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[Leadgolem]

Here's a heart rendering song, maybe a reflection of my mood. Missing my wife on a Saturday night. We will be back together soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFx0MMqb48

May your mind come to see the path to that which you most desire.

 

[bottlebomber]

Passedpawn, is that you that won the powerball?

 

[Leadgolem]

Has anybody bottles in leftover soda bottles? I've got some PET closures and they look the same.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Passedpawn, is that you that won the powerball?

Really? I'm fairly sure PP is my father.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Has anybody bottles in leftover soda bottles? I've got some PET closures and they look the same.

I don't bottle much, but occasionally I'll bottle in the PET type bottles (like soda bottles) if its something that I do not want to age more than a few weeks. On higher gravity beers, if I bottle, I go with glass.

 

[Leadgolem]

I don't bottle much, but occasionally I'll bottle in the PET type bottles (like soda bottles) if its something that I do not want to age more than a few weeks. On higher gravity beers, if I bottle, I go with glass.

This is for give aways. I don't really have enough glass to part with much of it. Empty soda bottles I've got.

 

[Leadgolem]

Does it make me a cheapskate to be unwilling to buy the juice base for the best wine I've ever tasted? I'm pretty sure I've figured out how I made that batch, but the juice is 4 bucks a quart on sale.

 

[Dan]

I didn't know you liked Kid Rock.

I probably never would have listened to him. But somebody I know of, Hank Williams Jr, mentioned him once or twice. I see the similarity in the two of them.

 

[Dan]

 

[Leadgolem]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_gcRp5v-k"]Same song, better quality but no lyrics[/ame]

 

[Dan]

Thank you for posting a song with lyrics LG.

Time for me to hit the sack.. G'night HBT.

 

[bottlebomber]

Thank you for posting a song with lyrics LG.

Time for me to hit the sack.. G'night HBT.

Night mi hermano

 

[passedpawn]

Passedpawn, is that you that won the powerball?

Nope. I don't play. I'd love a chunk of that though.

Really? I'm fairly sure PP is my father.

It's possible. I was a risk taker in my younger years.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Nope. I don't play. I'd love a chunk of that though.

It's possible. I was a risk taker in my younger years.

I don't believe you were that much of a risk taker

 

[bottlebomber]

Nope. I don't play. I'd love a chunk of that though.

It's possible. I was a risk taker in my younger years.

Yeah, I don't gamble either. Someone in Florida got it. I went into an Indian casino at 18 once, and lost $40 of my hard earned cash in about 5 minutes. That was the end of my gambling career.

I don't believe you were that much of a risk taker

Moms that bad?

 

[Leadgolem]

Well, I learned something today. You can use 28mm closures to seal used soda bottles. If the soda bottle has the deeper cap. It seems that most name brand soda uses a cap with two layers of threads. Most off brand soda uses a three layer thread. The caps are different depths.

 

[TNGabe]

Just put dishes from the last two days into the dishwasher. I've used Cascade detergent for years. Powder was a little cheaper but a pain, sometimes makes the little detergent dispenser door hard to close if I over fill. The liquid stuff is less hassle but more expensive. My brother of all people turned me on to these.

These little packets are awesome! They look to small to do anything good but they are the best I've ever tried. Not expensive either.

Going to BBQ some chicken here shortly and then my daughter and I are going on a little motorcycle ride. Just close to home. She'll be riding an HD 883 Hugger. Tomorrow I'm taking her up to the mountains but she'll be a passenger. She's not ready to make a bike trip on the Freeway yet on her own bike. I'm hoping the riding experience tomorrow as a passenger will help her understand riding a little better. And if I'm being honest, deter her from wanting to pursue riding. (Fatherly worries)

Don't get those mixed up with your snuff pouches.

 

[BobbiLynn]

One difference between making friends in real life and making friends online, is that online you can get to know people so much quicker. I have a friend that I've had for 8 years or more and it took us a year of knowing each other to become good friends. I'd see her maybe once a week at the most when hanging with mutual friends, we'd talk for a few minutes here and there. Took a while to get to know each other. In fact when we first met, she admitted she didn't like me at all. I forget which words she used but I think one of them was arrogant. And I thought she a prima donna snob. Then over time we realized how much we had in common, and we'd laugh at the same things, had a lot of the same pet peeves, and shared a lot of the same interests.

Wasn't the first time, nor will probably be the last, that friends have said that at first they weren't sure about me. I overheard some of my son's friends talking, one that was at the apartment for the first time, said "hey dude, your mom's a little weird." And one of the roommates replied, "no, she's just eccentric." Then he started talking about how I brewed beer.

In real life, from first impression to making a friend can be a long process. And, also the anonymity as mentioned, easier to open up about things. In real life, you complain about your neighbors, it gets back to the neighbor that you don't like them, now you got a neighbor pissed at you. That won't happen here, we can b*tch about neighbors all we want.

 

[passedpawn]

Little hot down here today, but I do love living in Clearwater. I like to kayak and get out on the water in the early AM. So nice.

Clearwater/St. Pete runs these ads (I don't know why they run the locally, doesn't make any sense). They are really nice. There's a whole bunch of them and they all are similar, like this one.

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.



Here's another one. Use your outside voices. Love it.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Little hot down here today, but I do love living in Clearwater. I like to kayak and get out on the water in the early AM. So nice.

Clearwater/St. Pete runs these ads (I don't know why they run the locally, doesn't make any sense). They are really nice. There's a whole bunch of them and they all are similar, like this one.

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.


Taught a Biab class today down on 590 south of you had great weather (2) ended up not taking their beer so I ended up getting stuck with 10 gallons of Pilsner

 

[Dan]

I might not explain this well enough to make sense. Reading Bobbi's last post gave me a thought. As you all know, because I remind you often enough. I spent most of my adult life in the military. From day one in the military you spend enormous amounts of time with each other and end up getting to know a person pretty well. Lifelong friendships are made.

A few weeks ago I called a guy I knew very well from over 20 years ago. Last time I saw him and his family was in 1993. We were stationed together in Japan from 1983-1988. It was as if no time had passed we just talked for about an hour.

As the years went by, moving and changing duty stations whether it be right down the street or on the other side of the world I'd quickly get settled in and surrounded with like people, sometimes not under the best conditions but we became part of each other's life. Another weird thing about spending a life in the military is even though you might move to a new station you always end up seeing a person again, or inevitably talk to a person that knew your old friend.. It's a big circle.

I'm going to keep this short. (at least for one of my posts)

 

[Leadgolem]

Social pressure cooker.

 

[Dan]

PP, looks like paradise!

 

[Stauffbier]

Happy Sunday folks.

Dan, you're right! With good friends you can pick up right where you left off. Even after many years.

It's hot today here, as well. So I'm getting my PBR on whilst grilling some meat!

Cheers!