Yearly Update
Hello blog. It is time for your yearly update.
As I got older, I began to lament the fact that I was not 21. Especially last year: I began brewing with my dad shortly after my 20th birthday, and as I began to understand and appreciate the giant benevolent colossus that is beer, I pondered more and more about why I was not able to drink it in public. In many other countries I would already have had at least 4 or so years of drinking under my belt. Obviously my parents had already deemed me responsible enough to drink. The American Government has no problem if I ask them for a machine gun to mow down them Iraqi Muslim basterds. Why couldn't I drink a beer?
Now I am 21, so those questions aren't quite so important to me anymore. I might even be drunk as I'm writing this (I'm not, but I am in fact enjoying a fine homebrew at the moment). Turns out getting to 21 isn't so hard. It just takes time.
So anyway...in the period between my last post and this one, I grew a mighty beard and then shaved it off. Some of my closest friends didn't recognize me right away post-shave. I have to say, I kind of like it.
Big changes are coming: I fly to NYC in one week to hang out with my brother. Should be lots o' fun. I'm pretty sure I'll be sitting in with his band Parasite Singles, a kind of post-punk noise thing. Pretty excited about that.
After New York, I'll be bussing it up to Vermont to live with my Aunt and Uncle and Cousin(s). Hopefully getting a job somewhat related to brewing. There are several things I want to do/get started on:
1. Russian Rosetta Stone
2. Carpentry
3. Record the Moonlight on Vermont EP
4. New book
Yeah, new book. I wrote a short story a year and a half or so ago. It was not really great...but it sparked something. I expanded on the story and I'm pretty sure I have a full novel's worth of material in my head. I'm really hoping to get a good start on that this summer.
There's more I could say, but I really need to study. My last exam is tomorrow morning, and I'm not sure how ready I am for it.
Anyway...
As I got older, I began to lament the fact that I was not 21. Especially last year: I began brewing with my dad shortly after my 20th birthday, and as I began to understand and appreciate the giant benevolent colossus that is beer, I pondered more and more about why I was not able to drink it in public. In many other countries I would already have had at least 4 or so years of drinking under my belt. Obviously my parents had already deemed me responsible enough to drink. The American Government has no problem if I ask them for a machine gun to mow down them Iraqi Muslim basterds. Why couldn't I drink a beer?
Now I am 21, so those questions aren't quite so important to me anymore. I might even be drunk as I'm writing this (I'm not, but I am in fact enjoying a fine homebrew at the moment). Turns out getting to 21 isn't so hard. It just takes time.
So anyway...in the period between my last post and this one, I grew a mighty beard and then shaved it off. Some of my closest friends didn't recognize me right away post-shave. I have to say, I kind of like it.
Big changes are coming: I fly to NYC in one week to hang out with my brother. Should be lots o' fun. I'm pretty sure I'll be sitting in with his band Parasite Singles, a kind of post-punk noise thing. Pretty excited about that.
After New York, I'll be bussing it up to Vermont to live with my Aunt and Uncle and Cousin(s). Hopefully getting a job somewhat related to brewing. There are several things I want to do/get started on:
1. Russian Rosetta Stone
2. Carpentry
3. Record the Moonlight on Vermont EP
4. New book
Yeah, new book. I wrote a short story a year and a half or so ago. It was not really great...but it sparked something. I expanded on the story and I'm pretty sure I have a full novel's worth of material in my head. I'm really hoping to get a good start on that this summer.
There's more I could say, but I really need to study. My last exam is tomorrow morning, and I'm not sure how ready I am for it.
Anyway...
That's me with the best beer we've brewed yet- Sinistral Warrior IPA
posted by dan at 9:21 PM
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