Archive for October, 2011
So many things rushing up to be due at the same time. I am, as ever, down to the wire on several fronts. As I get older, it gets harder and harder. I have begun to accept failure. Maybe I am growing weaker–or maybe my perception of the past is rosier than it merits.
I must [...]
Is very hard.
I feel like I have been built to fly, but my wings are stunted and deformed such that I can only waddle around and look up at my fellows who are soaring in the air around me. “Why don’t you join us?” they ask. “You have wings just like us!” And so, in [...]
I brewed the third in my series of stovetop batches tonight. I shot for an American Amber, and you can download the recipe in XML from my wiki. It uses US-05 yeast, a variety that produces pretty straightforward American ale, and Centennial & Cascade hops, both signature American cultivars. The malt body is the same [...]
Fifteen minutes, that’s all I’m allotted to blog with. It sets a time limit so blogging doesn’t eat up other time, and also constrains me so I don’t waste time thinking about what I should be writing. I have so much to tell you all, but really, it’ll come out eventually, so I’ll start with [...]