Goals past and present

I pretty much failed at 2013’s goal of tasting and grading 50 beers. I did pretty good at the front part of that goal, mind you, but it’s the second half of the process that proved difficult. I did a reasonably good job of exploring the world of Trappist abbey ales and found an IPA…

There’s worse

Started using Everpad [1] on my linux workstation this evening. It’s more responsive than the crapping Thunderbird extension [2] which, in the end, is merely a Mozilla browser window embedded as a tab running against the Evernote [3] site. Using Firefox is fine for that, as far as that goes…which isn’t far at all. The…

Cranky

Because I’m cranky today…and a veteran of sorts: citizens who are willing to sacrifice other citizens to some nameless enemy to somehow save soldiers because they support our troops are dolts. Actually folks who say all kinds of stupid crap as some way of proving up their “support our troops” credibility rub me exactly the…

Battle plan

I’m currently sitting here questioning whether or not I’m coming down with a cold. Perhaps the winning move is to drink enough so that when I definitely feel like crap tomorrow the question is moot. Certainly one approach to resolving the dilemma.

Poser

Why does the cat prefer canned dog food and the dogs prefer canned cat food?  Are the folks are Purina screwing up the packaging lines?