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Santragenius V Posted Jul 21, 2014
Here, Lil -have one of mine: ! And with getting rid of infections!!
Might have confessed it before - I am a closet South European. Very much enjoying life in Barcelona this week with Mrs SG V and N (now 18 - where did that come from). Rather than hotels, we have rented a small apartment - cheaper, more space (even though small is the word) than in hotel room(s). And a rooftop terrace Absolutely only drawback is that it is fifth floor - up a looong and narrow staircase.
But Mediterrenean life is good. And we haven't even been to the next door food market yet...
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Jul 21, 2014
It's disgustingly dreadful at that.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Jul 21, 2014
*Lifts up glasses.*
It is I, Mr. Dreadful.
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Pastey Posted Jul 21, 2014
Well, it's happened. I got the paperwork through today, and my garage is now official registered as a brewery
So I can now sell the stuff I brew to bars, shops and beer festivals. If they want it that is.
The thing is, brewing's fun but mostly you're sat around waiting for things to happen. So it'll be nice to have something to do in between bouts of coding and writing
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jul 21, 2014
*falls back into her chair, stunned* It is you, Dreadful!
Congratulations, Pastey. May you enjoy the pastime, and may it be profitable.
Santra, after some long spells in tropical climes, I couldn't wait to get back to seasons. Corfu has seasons, but Florida very rarely does, and I just got tired of the unvarying warmth.
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marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Jul 21, 2014
Congrats Pastey. I hope it's a good experience for you.
I am dying to try my latest brew. It's in a keg now and getting some carbonation built up as we speak. Should be ready to go by next week I think.
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Pastey Posted Jul 22, 2014
I'm going to have to look into kegging and cornies etc. At the moment I'm planning purely to bottle, because it's a lot less equipment
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marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Jul 22, 2014
The friend I brew with has 7 cornelius kegs in a refrigerator with taps on top. Once the outlay for equipment is done, it's a lot less work than bottling.
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Pastey Posted Jul 22, 2014
Oh yeah, a *lot* less My problem would be also in kegs that then get sent out with the beer to pubs, and hoping they make their way back in one piece. It's a lot of outlay.
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8584330 Posted Jul 25, 2014
I've experience filling bottles while Mr Nerd caps them. (Must add that to my resume.)
Tree is completely down now. I feel terrible about letting the hummingbirds down. Hang in there little birdies, we are replanting as soon as possible!
In other news, Mr Nerd gave the stray cat a name, Al Fresco. Conundrum: now that Al has a name, is he still a stray?
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Bagpuss Posted Jul 25, 2014
Is anyone else thinking of the Strict, Unbending Rules for Dealing with Stray Cats? http://www.pawsperouspets.com/humor/catstrays.shtml
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Bald Bloke Posted Jul 25, 2014
Yep them rules is true,
Fortunately my visiting cat is not a stray, she has a full time house down the road, she just pops in if her people are out and then disappears back as soon as she hears their car pull in.
And No she does not get fed here
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jul 29, 2014
*recovers slowly from latest microbial onslaught*
This afternoon, as I was sitting at my netbook after lunch, I noticed two gentlemen in business suits moving hurriedly up and down the hall. Then they stopped outside my door and addressed my room mate in a manner so odd that it got my attention. First they asked her what month it was and then told her what it was before she could answer -- ditto the date. And then they began talking to her about God.
No, it started out with talk of computers. Did you know, computers have their uses? Heh heh, sez the one fellow who did most of the talking, now I don't know hardly nothing about computers, I can't even turn one on! Ha ha! But computers can be, well, did you know there is pornography on computers? (Alert: when they stop using contractions, you know there's a script afoot). Did you know some people spend Six! Hours! a! Day! on computers?
(Ten! I said in a conversational voice. No, twelve! But, what with several devil televisions quacking in adjacent rooms, I was unheard.)
Do you know there was a young man who sold a kidney so he could buy himself a computer? (Let's stipulate all the arm-and-a-leg jokes, please)
(Who? I asked in a louder voice as I reached for my call button. Name him!)
A computer when you spend more time than you need to on it is a road to the Devil. And at this point the gentleman began to speak louder and in an even more stilted manner, and to say things about God and Satan and his Computer Minions that my brain refused to remember. At about then an aide came in to find out what I needed, and I shouted, "That man! He's proselytizing!" and then I had to explain to her what 'proselytizing' means. And while I was doing that the two men heard me sputtering and hurried away. Which infuriated me even more because I had wanted them to come in here and apologize to my computer.
Now, you can be as religious as you want. I'm pretty religious. You can believe that there are devils in computers -- most IT people will at least agree about the daemons. But what you don't get to do is browbeat nursing home residents on private property, with your superstitions and half-truths about machines you don't understand.
I posted the foregoing tale on Facebook. Here I can add a fact that makes the men's behavior especially bad; my room mate has fairly substantial dementia. She does not know what day of the week it is, much less month or number. The men seemed to be carrying out some sort of required test when they asked about the date, but they promptly fudged it by quickly giving her the answers. Hypocrites.
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Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Jul 29, 2014
What clowns... And what a sorry little world they must live in.
I'm glad you're better now, I hate to see you with antibiotics.
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Pastey Posted Jul 29, 2014
He didn't sell a kidney to buy a computer, it was to buy an iPad.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9466585/Chinese-student-sells-kidney-for-iPad.html
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marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Jul 29, 2014
Now I am no longer religious but I can state that there are daemons and demons,devils, poltergeists, spirits and ghosts in them machines. Also, I know a computer isn't truly yours unless you bleed into it.
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- 1341: Santragenius V (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1342: Bald Bloke (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1343: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1344: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1345: Pastey (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1346: Santragenius V (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1347: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1348: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1349: marvthegrate LtG KEA (Jul 21, 2014)
- 1350: Pastey (Jul 22, 2014)
- 1351: marvthegrate LtG KEA (Jul 22, 2014)
- 1352: Pastey (Jul 22, 2014)
- 1353: 8584330 (Jul 25, 2014)
- 1354: Pastey (Jul 25, 2014)
- 1355: Bagpuss (Jul 25, 2014)
- 1356: Bald Bloke (Jul 25, 2014)
- 1357: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jul 29, 2014)
- 1358: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Jul 29, 2014)
- 1359: Pastey (Jul 29, 2014)
- 1360: marvthegrate LtG KEA (Jul 29, 2014)
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