This evening I started my first batch of homebrew. (Yes, I sanitised everything with bleach.) It was all quite easy. Now it's sitting in its plastic fermenter in the laundry with an electric blanket hooked up to a thermostat to keep it warm. After I put the lid on, the instructions said to test the seal by squeezing the fermenter and observing that the water levels in the airlock take a while to even out. But on mine they level out within a few seconds. :(

I've posted a message on rec.crafts.brewing asking for advice. A quick google suggests that it will probably be ok. I hope so, I think I would be devastated if it didn't work. I also hope that the electric blanket doesn't burn the house down.

Customer comedy

We have a wall of quotes in our office at work of insightful, funny, or stupid things that people have said. Quotes like the spelling of qulaity says it all or just that the way we've done things is very very wrong. We had a new one this week from a member of the Commonwealth Project Authority.

This job isn't a career move for me. The only reason I work is so that I'm not on the piss all day.

Sending software releases

Last week we had to send a copy of the latest build over to the test site in Sydney. Strangely, we came very close to sending the cover of a John Lee Hooker CD instead. It didn't even have the CD in it.

Friday night dinner

On Friday night we went out for dinner with a bunch of nurses. When I say that to people at work it always seems to make them jealous. It turned out to be a buffet thing with a seafood theme at Mulberry on Swan, very nice but a little overpriced. I ate too much, and I tried a new beer that I hadn't had before (Matilda Bay Beez Neez). So it was a good night out.

Tennis

Had a good game today. My legs ache.