Just another Weird site…
Checking the old Google analytics for the blog the other night I found the following entry for properties of network visitors
I don’t know which I should more worried about… that the “man” has read this 3 times in the last month or that 2 of the larger healthcare companies in North America are stalking me.
I’m probably on a no fly list now…
It’s August….
I hate August…
I hate August more then I hate any other time of year…..
All of the good pod casts are on vacation and putting up repeats….
Geek Brief with Cali Lewis, Ask a Ninja, and Battlestar Galactica (granted it’s been off line for a couple of months now and won’t start until the 4 season picks up in the new year)
Comics are on “hiatus” damn you non-sequitor
Football is in the presason, the games aren’t even that good. The first string of the Cardinals can beat up on the second string of the Steelers.
Computers die in August… that always costs me money.
I hate August.
Sports cars and IT pro's a dangerous combo
Where do I sign up and is it verizon compatible?
They are now making displays out of PS3's still can't find a Wii to save your life though
OK finally time to get serious with this whole home brewing thing. Just the inital research is a bit intimidating. And when I say intimidating I mean there are a million and one ways to screw everything up and not know that you’ve done something wrong until it is far to late.
So I present to you now two resources that I have up to this point found exceedingly helpful in doing this whole home brew thing
— Home Brewing For Dummies. It’s a bit old but brewing isn’t exactly something that changes every other week. A good general resource and how to.
— Morebeer.com. Website a couple of quick how to video’s and a FAQ section that really helps in some spots. Other spots it’s a bit thin. The biggest thing with this is it lets you see what your working with so you can plan accordingly. Of course going to your local brewer supply store would achieve the same effect.
My other resource is Greg at work… and well he doesn’t have a website and I’m not going to post his email so you need to go find your own brew geek.
More back porch blogging…. it’s only 95 according to the weather thingy in Firefox. This is the first time in a while when I’ve been outside and it’s not been stiffeling or something like that.
July in Phoenix… it’s a wonder people live here this time of year. It’s only 110+ during the day in the shade. When the wind blows it feels like a blast furance and lets not forget the generous amount of particulate matter that make the overall feeling of a sand blaster.
Now on the “cooler” days, you know the ones where it doesn’t feel like a oven or blast furnace, it’s got to be some cruel joke by the people responsible for the weather. The “cooler” days in summer are like a messed up sauna. Puts out alot of heat a just a bit of humidity enough to drive you up the wall but not enough to truly do anything.
The heat is sometimes maddening… but you know what makes it all worth it? Come December/January/Feburary you can’t swing a broken laptop with out hitting a damned snowbird. In other words it’s great weather just alot more people are around.
The big difference between right now on the back porch and earlier musings of a back porch is the ambient noise. I normally can hear Dobson and Guadalupe roads. Tonight all I hear are crickets, and I can’t remember the last time I heard crickets. Now the lack of traffic might also be chalked up to the 7 A/C units that are within earshot and going full boar. I’m going to say it’s because there is no one out tonight.
So if your a long time reader you may remember that when I was in the process of moving to Phoenix from Kingman 2 years ago I wrote about my then 14 year old cousin who came to visit.
Well Matt returned to Kingman for another visit. I didn’t get up there this time around but we had a conversation that made realize that the kid is going to be alright.
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Matt:
its the only way to do it in my opinion i ever pose/convert/paint my own models you should see my demon prince hes sick looking
ME:
Your not playing the video game?
Your playing the table top?
I am so proud of you right now it’s not even funny.
Matt:
ahh well warhammer 40k is a table top game i play chaos(demons) they had a video game made after it called dawn of war maybe youve heard/played it
ME:
Haha… No…
Supreme Commander and Wii those are my current addictions.
Matt:
ahh well if ya got alot of free time then you could consider playing warhammer 40k
ME:
Oh you know the usual, work, friends, and more free time then I know what to do with.
Matt:
hows life treating ya
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The kid is going to be alright, the rest of the family might be worried but I’m not.
That you only want to be friends?
So in the last 3 weeks I’ve sat down four or five times to try and put some sort of drivel up for you my loving horde of 3.2 readers to look at, consume, digest, and throw back at me at “crap” it is the order of things here in this little corner of the interweb.
So in the course of the last three weeks I’ve given you
2 – posts about my personal ramblings on the iShit.
1 – 4 year old singing German death metal
1 – email from a uncle about he and my aunt’s tour across the Maryland country side (ok I have to admit I did find the picture with the tank rather unique and I will probably print it out to put on the fridge)
and 1 – post with quotes from work.
I already have fairly low standards for this corner of the internet… ya know. Most all of the words spelled correctly, almost proper grammar (thats more miss then hit), and a something that is more then two sentences when I’m dones.
When I started doing this back in 2000 (shit I have been doing this for some time) Actually I’ve been doing “blogging” in one sort or another for damn near 10 years now I just don’t have any of the old websites and I really didn’t start doing it “consistently” until 2000. Getting back to the point of this paragraph was to relate that when I started “blogging” I held my self to the standard of at least 2 pages of text in word. Can you tell I was in school when I was started?
The point of this post? No real point I’m just padding numbers to #300 on blogger and I’m just trying not to make them all pictures from the phone.