The short version is, we've just been enjoying the summer, riding our motorcycle a ton (4,000 miles on it since we bought it on 7/4). Oh - right - yeah - we bought a new motorcycle. ;) We were plenty happy with our old bike - a '98 H-D Fat Boy, but… more »

The short version is "house buying is a pain in the ass, so we're staying." The long version is a little more complicated. We own our current house, er, that is, we pretend to own it in a little 30 year game we play with the bank. In a totally reco… more »

So we're trying to buy a new house. We're looking for a place with some land, ideally an acre or more, but definitely over 1/2 an acre - and on the outskirts of town, if not downright "out in the country." This should be easy, given we have excelle… more »

Just a quickie "we're not dead!" post again. There's just not much going on that's long-form blog post worthy lately. Our main project, if you could call it that, is sort of "downsizing" or "simplifying" our lives. Nothing so dramatic as Cage Free F… more »

This morning, during my shower, while I was getting dressed, and riding in the car on the way to the office, I rough-drafted a post in my head. It was going to talk at length about how the rise of mega-chains has killed diversity and local flavor in pr… more »

We're still alive. It's just that it's Winter and there's very little opportunity to do much of anything that's "blog-worthy." I'm sure once warm weather returns we'll be posting like mad again! Lizz and I decided not to finish the long series of e… more »

So we haven't brewed much lately.  Our Secret Project IBA is in secondary and will be kegged soon, and thus revealed to the unsuspecting world.  Er, at least homebrew enthusiasts in our area, anyway.  We'll be brewing our first all-grain batch, an ESB,… more »

And so with this post, I risk alienating or even offending 50% or more of my readers. A month or more ago, I made a post about the original purpose of this domain, and mentioned I may be recovering the magazine's issues from archive.org.  Well - I can'… more »

In the past, I've had stretches of maybe a few weeks, a month or so tops, where I haven't gamed much or at all - but as of right now it's been several months since I've done any gaming.  I did convert my main machine to Linux a month or so ago, and did… more »

One thing we've always noticed about our local food business community is that, at least to us - admittedly outsiders, not employed in the business - it seems that the businesses are very friendly and supportive of each other.  There does not seem to be… more »

The earliest email I can find referencing it is from November 2010 - so it seems its been about 8 months that we've been involved with the "Chicken Cabal," and now our first batch of chickens is done. We did a "trial run" of 20 birds on Tuesday the 7th… more »

As I begin penning (so to speak) this entry, it's around 8 o'clock on a rainy Monday morning, the memories still ultra-fresh of this trip that I simply must chronicle. It would be all too easy to chalk this up to "you had to be there" or "you wouldn't… more »

Short one today. Just wanted to mention that the fine folks @ D&R Market recently gave us a bunch of surplus venison from their processing season. Some loins, stew meat cubes, and a few packages of ground. So yesterday we took a pack of the groun… more »

Our weekend was extremely varied and exciting! Did a lot of new stuff, and something we hadn't done in ages. So we knew this band-with-a-cool-name, We Are Hex, was playing at The Black Sparrow (best bar in all of Lafayette, perhaps the world) on Frida… more »

Today Lizz and I went to Wabash Mountain Farm to help(and learn how to) process 2 guinea fowl roosters. Please note that by "process," I do mean kill, scald, pluck, eviscerate, and cool said birds, so that we can eat them. Given that, some of the ph… more »

We started our second batch of beer on Saturday. It is a Northern English Brown Ale (BJCP style 11C), from a recipe of mostly my own design - (click for link to recipe on Hopville). Dead Like Me was a great show. ;) Nothing overly special, but should… more »

Before I get onto the main subject of this post, I just want to mention I took a couple bottles of our first-ever homebrew, a black IPA, to the club meeting on Tuesday and it was well-received. "Doesn't have the typical 'kit flavor'" was said by more t… more »

Last Tuesday, I got my first tattoo. It's healing, so I'm not ready to post a picture yet, but if you have me friended on Facebook, there is a rough picture there. By next week it should be ready for photos. Lizz is getting her second tattoo today, a… more »

Couldn't think of a "B" word for planes. :D My first batch of homebrew is coming along exactly as it should. On Saturday evening we transferred it from the primary fermenter to secondary, drawing a small sample to test for specific gravity. It was… more »

Yesterday we, along with about 10-12 other people, met to discuss costs, work, and other things involved with setting up a cooperative effort to raise and process chickens for food. Turns out the cost isn't too bad, and neither is the work. Chickens a… more »

It's been quite a while since I've written here. Mainly we've just been busy doing a ton of new things, and I haven't had much time to write. That, and to be honest, most of the things we've been doing aren't overly appropriate for discussion on a pub… more »

I haven't written much lately, as there just isn't much "happening." I'm playing Warhammer Online, but there's really nothing "exciting" to write about. I play, it's fun, and things are good. Heh. I'll be doing my future gaming-related posts over @… more »

How's that for an interesting collection of unrelated hashtags!? Well, that's what happens when you blog about everything you're doing, rather than focusing on one subject. ;)I haven't written much lately, mainly because there hasn't been a lot to w… more »

As mentioned in my wife's recent post ( more »

Being a steady customer at a local business absolutely has it's benefits. Not only are you helping your local economy directly, they generally take awesome care of you as a customer. Patrick and Tad at D&R Market have really been bringing in a… more »