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Pink Striped Chair…

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Well the brewery control panel is done. Finished it last night. I would be much more celebratory, but I am currently very annoyed by a non-beer related issue.

As I may have mentioned, the wife and I are expecting our first child. Our baby girl…Camryn Alexis…will be born in April. This is not the annoying part. This could not be more awesome.

chairThe annoying part has been a bunch of completely unnecessary drama that I had to go through in making arrangements for delivery of a pink striped chair for her nursery.

We ordered this chair from Target.com and had it sent to my office so that we wouldn’t have to run the risk of noone being home when it was delivered. This turned out to be a much bigger pain in the arse than we could have ever expected. I could go on, but I think that it might be a better use of my time if I just shared the following email that I sent out this morning. Continue reading →

Busting out the Brew Tech!

08 Friday Feb 2013

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After weeks of planning, thinking, ordering, researching, ordering more, then finally planning even more, work has begun in earnest on our first brewery control system. I for one, could not be more excited.

It’s still a ways from being complete, but thanks to a day off on Wednesday following a long week of travel, a good dent has been put into its construction.

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Wiring diagrams make my head hurt….

24 Thursday Jan 2013

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First off, let me just say that there probably is no greater confession of being a complete and utter dumb ass than claiming to be intelligent. People who boast about being smart, are, at least in my experience, almost always too dumb to live.

That said, I will not claim to be smart. But I do know some stuff.  I am a jack of all trades, and I know a little bit about a lot of stuff. I don’t know a lot about these things. Just enough to be dangerous.

But when it comes to wiring and electronics, I think I know just enough to know that I don’t know a darn thing. Continue reading →

There’s just no such thing as a new idea…

27 Thursday Dec 2012

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LucyThis morning, as is the case with every morning, I started my day off by taking the dog for a walk. It was a brisk morning, but what else would you expect for the end of December.

The sun had not quite fully risen, and the air was quiet…almost eerily so. It was the kind of quiet that only exists this time of year. There were no birds chirping. The wind was still. There were no kids on corners waiting for the school bus. It was just dead silent.

Maybe it was the silence, or maybe it was the captivity of anxiously awaiting Lucy to do her business, but I found my mind spinning with ideas. Continue reading →