Planning for Weetacon goes apace. Remember, you are all invited to participate. http://weetacon.com/ is the relevant URL.

 

Weetabix (my wife) tell me that there is rumbling that I should have some home brew, made especially for Weetacon available.  The question is what kind of beer should I make?   I could play it safe with a typical brown, or an English bitter, or even a wit. But all of that seems boring. What I do know is that it needs to be about 5% ABV and not too outrageous for the masses attending Weetacon. But other than that the planning for this year’s event seems to be going well. It’s always a blast.

 

 

Haven’t had much to do on the beer front in a few weeks. Tomorrow I am going to brew a Bavarian Dunkel (not dunkelweiss) that I hope will come out like Capital Brewing’s Dark.  We shall see we are using a kit from Northern Brewer, mostly because frankly dunkel recipes are extremely simple and it would take longer to order ingredients separately. Gonna brew that one up tomorrow afternoon. We may also take a shot at brewing up a base wheat beer that is going to be split into two 2.5 gallon batches after primary fermentation. We want to make one with raspberry and the second with pomegranate. We’ve never done a true fruit beer before, our only real delve into fruit has been our strawberry mead. Small batches should make it easy to try and not have too much crap beer laying around if it doesn’t work out. Next up after those two will be a Chimay Grande Reserve (Blue) clone for my buddy TLON. It’s a big beer, will take six months minimum to age out.

 

I’ve also ordered the double tap tower  for the kegerator I am going to put into my house. We built one for my brew buddy Scott’s place, where we brew, but I want homebrew on tap at the house. The second tap will be for seltzer, which is simplicity itself to make if you have a dual regulator and a CO2 tank, the second of which I will need for the beer anyway. Just need the regulators and some other miscellaneous parts now.

 

 

Meh, we are still in business and things are looking up, so woo I guess. I’m dealing with the job. I don’t like it that much, but I get paid well so I am living with it. That’s enough about that.

 

 

Got my Traveller game coming up in January. Getting started on prep material for that.

 

One of the things I am looking for, (not for Traveller) is for a good space-based ship to ship combat system. We have used the one in d20 Star Wars and its total shit. Too much math and it moves WAY too slow. If any of you role-playing inclined individuals have anything that you think would work, regardless of game system, let me know about it? The only one we have ever had even remotely work is the old d6 Star Wars system with the ship combat supplement. We are not going to necessarily use it for Star Wars, but we want some more options for sci-fi based role-playing games. Ship to ship can be real fun, be it star fighters or larger ships.

 

 

Dog Unit (pug) and Cat Unit (grey and white of uncertain ancestry) are both doing fine. They play together all the time. Sadly, there is no cute dog-and-cat-laying-together pictures, but at least they get along. My parents are on vacation visiting Ireland, so we are also taking care of their dog as well, Micro Dog Unit (miniature Yorkie and miniature poodle mix…a miniature Yorkiepoo) She weighs five pounds fully grown. But she is powered by nuclear materials, super fast, runs and jumps a lot. Her and DU play and play and play, even though DU is three times the weight of MDU. It’s going to be an interesting two weeks.

 

 

First thing, the last election was NOT a referendum on Obama. Guess what geniuses; people don’t make choices in their local elections based solely on who is President. They may favor one party or another, but that doesn’t mean they will elect idiots to spite President Barry. 

 

Oh, and neocon/birthers/teabaggers I got one thing to say about NY-23: HA HA! Fuck you, little pricks. Political parties don’t work when ideologues force purity litmus tests. If you continue down this road, you are FUCKED for years. You had a perfectly acceptable candidate who was literally a shoo-in from a district that hasn’t voted in a Democratic representative in like a billion years. But because she wasn’t the perfect conservative you named her RINO and put up some not-ready-for-it jackass and split the vote. It got so bad that your former candidate dropped out and endorsed the DEMOCRAT. Wake up, morons. Stop listening to Palin-Beck-Limbaugh-Jindal.

 

Oh, and those of you that voted against gay rights in Maine? FUCK YOU. You are on the wrong side of history. Your grandchildren will be ashamed of the pictures of you celebrating the win.

 

To those of you in Washington State that made gay marriage possible there, KUDOS. Well done.

 

 

That’s all I got.