I like this time at night on HBT

[TNGabe]

Wow, last nights conversation really took a turn in the 'things I wouldn't talk about on a public internet forum' direction.

 

[Leadgolem]

*Shrug* I've had similar conversations with my boss. It's not anything current.

 

[Leadgolem]

[ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjky5U64LM"]The Beach Boys ~ Surfer Girl[/ame]

 

[snaps10]

Buddy of mine. Kid my roommates and I sort of mentored a few years back.

 

[Stauffbier]

Damn I'm upset! A friend on beerforum sent me a bottle of Surly Pentagram and some Surly Wet, and the stupid USPS delivered it to some other address. That Pentagram is rare too. Ironically this is the second package in a week that USPS has delivered to the wrong address. I also get my neighbors mail and they get mine. I'm thinking my local carrier must be some senile old fart that can't get address correct. One day our mail was off by one house all the way down the block. GEEZE!

/rant

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I feel for those of you that get headaches and migraines. I guess I'm lucky, because I never get them.

I rarely get a garden variety headache. Migraines are a completely different thing. My sister gets them as well, and there are all sorts of triggers for them. It's hard teasing out what causes them. Changes in barometric pressure seem to be my particular trigger, I always seem to get a migraine in the fall when fronts come rolling through. Some think changes in daylight levels can trigger them, messing with serotonin in the brain. Blue electronic lights are bad too. I have a cheap LED kitchen scale that always makes my eyes swimmy - I have to use it quickly and put it away fast or else I risk a migraine.

Keeping hydrated and fed and not eating garbage helps keep them at bay, but once in a while on a stressful fall day you'll eat some junk food and get a little dehydrated and have reflected sunlight dazzle you just so, and bam - migraine.

It starts with an "aura" - for me I see visions of kaleidescopic geometric lights squiggling across my field of vision. They are still visible when you close your eyes - it's a nerve thing. No pain at this point, but it messes with your vision and generally means the pain is coming - the anticipation is what really sucks. Sometimes if you get the aura and you can quickly fix the trigger (eat, hydrate, sit quietly in the dark) you can avoid the worst of it, but sometimes you don't know what the trigger is and all you can do is ride it out. At best it is a *really* aggravating headache, at worst it is something so painful that you have to retch. Strangely, getting sick can actually help resolve the migraine. After the pain subsides, often I feel OK but wiped out, and I have a lingering tightness in the temples that lasts for a few days afterward. Then I might not have another for years.

Yeah, thank your lucky stars that you don't get migraines. I'm glad that they are a blue-moon occurance with me, some folks have them daily.

 

[Leadgolem]

Damn I'm upset! A friend on beerforum sent me a bottle of Surly Pentagram and some Surly Wet, and the stupid USPS delivered it to some other address. That Pentagram is rare too. Ironically this is the second package in a week that USPS has delivered to the wrong address. I also get my neighbors mail and they get mine. I'm thinking my local carrier must be some senile old fart that can't get address correct. One day our mail was off by one house all the way down the block. GEEZE!

/rant

That sucks. Hopefully whoever got it is honest enough to drop it off to you.

I ordered a temp controller for my new setup. Found a digital one that's already fully wired. I could wire one easily enough, but I don't really feel like doing it. I've got lots of other things to do.

I fell asleep at 4:30 in the afternoon today... I hope I'm not up all night.

 

[Stauffbier]

My mother gets a strange type of migraine. I forget what she said it's called. She doesn't experience pain. Instead she experiences major vertigo and dizziness. They are also triggered by many of the same things as you listed TC. She had to give up driving for a few years when she was younger. About 7-8 years ago she was able to start driving short distances again. Not at night though due to the bright lights of cars and the city. I remember about 20 years ago they couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. It took years of tests and visiting neurologists before it was figured out. They got her on meds and it improved finally.

LG, I hope you're right about my package, but I don't hold out much hope. Especially if it was delivered in my neighborhood. Being the USPS and the fact it was a beer trade I don't think we will be able to make a claim on it.

 

[lschiavo]

Hey folks! its been a while...

First a good song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6ODNxy3YOPU

Now some good news: We got 240 pounds of apples off of the good wine tree yesterday. My freezer is full. That should make 200 bottles...oh god why?

Now I need some advice. I want to upgrade my mash tun. I currently have a half barrel keg. I want to do 20 gallon batches (to share with my brew-mate). I am looking at Stout Tanks and am impressed. Anyone used these or not and have any suggestions? I want the 30 or 40 gallon bottom drain.

here is the link: http://conical-fermenter.com/products/mash-tuns/

Grouse hunting this weekend! No turkey license They only give out 1500 for the whole UP. I could kill 10% of that if I didn't slow down when those stupid things are crossing the highway. That settles it, I'm hunting turkey with the truck...

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[lschiavo]

I like anarchy...with a few rules..

That's a good song though.

 

[Dan]

Couldn't resist. Johnny Cash and the SOA. Okay, okay, just a TV show, a man's soap opera but I dig it.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

 

[Dan]

This song was in the mix on the last YouTube video. Great, classic song. Does anybody even make music like this anymore?

 

[LabRatBrewer]

 

[TNGabe]

Damn I'm upset! A friend on beerforum sent me a bottle of Surly Pentagram and some Surly Wet, and the stupid USPS delivered it to some other address. That Pentagram is rare too. Ironically this is the second package in a week that USPS has delivered to the wrong address. I also get my neighbors mail and they get mine. I'm thinking my local carrier must be some senile old fart that can't get address correct. One day our mail was off by one house all the way down the block. GEEZE!

/rant

That sux!!! Hope you get your beers. If I had any more Pentagram, I'd send you one. I got two, mostly for the bottles - I think Satanic stuff is hillarious. Gave one away in the MAW thread and have to ship the other for a trade next week.

This song was in the mix on the last YouTube video. Great, classic song. Does anybody even make music like this anymore?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRDM7GyJXE

Not before or since. You know a band (or The Band in this case) is good when even their most popular, played to death song is stll great. Impossible to pick my favorite song from them, but this is up there. The Last Waltz is the best concert film I've ever seen. You know the Neil Young story?

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[TNGabe]

I take it back, this is my favorite. If you've ever been there, you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Dan]

So I'm on a SOA roll. No apologies.

John Teller: First time I read Emma Goldman wasn't in a book. I was sixteen, hiking near the Nevada border. The quote was painted on a wall in red. When I saw those words it was like someone ripped them from the inside of my head.

Anarchism... stands for liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from shackles and restraint of government. It stands for social order based on the free grouping of individuals.

John Teller: The concept was pure, simple, true. It inspired me. Lit a rebellious fire, but ultimately I learned the lesson that Goldman, Proudhom and the others learned. That true freedom requires sacrifice and pain. Most human beings only think they want freedom. In truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism. The only freedom man really wants, is the freedom to become comfortable

 

[lschiavo]

A lot of truth there.

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[TNGabe]

So I'm on a SOA roll. No apologies.

You are a man of contradictions Dan. Not that we all aren't, to some degree.

 

[Leadgolem]

 

[Dan]

A lot of truth there.

A bold statement indeed. Truth be told for me. The last sentence is how I live..don't think I'll ever be a true anarchist. Love my comfort to much...

 

[Dan]

You are a man of contradictions Dan. Not that we all aren't, to some degree.

You better believe I am. Dont have the gonads to do something really life changing. I'm weak in that aspect.

 

[TNGabe]

Double post

 

[TNGabe]

A bold statement indeed. Truth be told for me. The last sentence is how I live..don't think I'll ever be a true anarchist. Love my comfort to much...

Despite his racist attempt at singling out one ethnic group, I think Earl Butz summed up what most men want out of life pretty well.

 

[TNGabe]

You better believe I am. Dont have the gonads to do something really life changing. I'm weak in that aspect.

Didn't mean that as an insult, just an observation to someone I consider a friend. You must be awfully conflicted to believe in both nationalism and anarchy. I guess you could call that being extremely open minded. I try and keep my beliefs to a minimum, it makes it easier for me to be happy.

 

[Leadgolem]

Is anarchy really freedom though? I'll have to think about how to articulate it better.

Without laws, one persons actions would impinge on the freedom of another. Is that really freedom, or mere chaos?

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I believe in swordfish (Papal is the Swordfish!)