Regretsy is fun

It’s mean and irreverent and an earlier version of me would be mortally offended, but, man, loving the snark at Regretsy. Sample of what one can find inside: Not stealing this, just hosting on my own web server so I’m not leaching bandwidth Rest assured, the $200 “handicraft” this image is attached to deserves the…

We’re back!

Hooray. Web host reverted their auto update of my wordpress install (and subsequent hosing). Lessons learned: “Online” support is not a great way to get resolution for technical problems at $WEBHOST $WEBHOST is damn quick at triage and ticket resolution for incident reports filed via their tracking system.

Baseball trivia

I have a little quiz for you. What two things do the following have in common? Rick Ankiel Chris Carpenter Allen Craig Ivan DeJesus Carlos Quentin Andres Torres Chase Utley Arodys Vicaino Answer: They’re on the DL They’re on my roster Admittedly, I took a few of these in the rotation draft knowing full well…

Son of nutter bottled

Bottled the second nut brown ale tonight. Only two more weeks until we can drink sweet nectar of the gods again! Thinking about doing something a little different with the labels. This will probably make Jim mad but I want to personalize each brew a little more. Anyway, so far I’ve come up with this:…

Why outsourcing doesn’t work so well

Oh my! So here’s my fun, work-related rant of the day. So nearly three years ago I was tasked with solving the problem of how we could install the same application on a windows box multiple times in such a way that we could isolate customer data. In short, each customer gets its own installation…

Blowout

Truly nothing better than to come home from a crap day at work to learn that the Belgian Wit was fermenting with such vigor as to blow the top off the airlock with krauseny goodness. The fermentation room smelled like beer and the bucket lid looked like the closing shot from some circle jerk pr0n…

Belgian Wit

After a fun morning of yard work (who ever heard of mowing the yard before April?), a dog meet up in the circle, and racking the peach wine we endeavored to brew up a yet to be branded Belgian Wit. Judging by the smell test administered via the airlock this morning, it promises to be…