Thursday, February 22, 2007

19 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity


1. At Lunch Time, Sit in Your Parked Car with Sunglasses on and point
a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want
Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label it "In".

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has
Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write " For Smuggling
Diamonds".

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy".

8. Don't use any punctuation.

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go".

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital. And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

Friday, February 16, 2007

Before and after

Finally got some photo evidence of some of what
I've been doing on the house over the past few
months. This is the spare bedroom, hopefully you can guess which is the before and after! (Hint: the brewing equipment may give it away!)

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Mr T's Brewery Tour

Walk around nearly 0.003 years of brewing excellence, take a step into tradition with one of our experienced tour guides. After a short but non-informative introduction held on the pavement, they will accompany you round the Brewery. The definition of such terms as "mashing", "wort" and "rousing" will not be explained properly to you. Your tour will conclude with the opportunity to sample some budget supermarket beers within the comfort of the kitchen where you will be able to purchase mementos of your visit.
There will be a non refundable charge of £0.24.

Friday, February 02, 2007

A pint, anyone?

About 8 years ago I made my first attempt at brewing beer. 'T's Special Reserve' met with some success, though is remembered more for it's strength than taste. Now that I have a basement and risk no complaints from family about the smell, (I prefer the term 'aroma'), I'm planning on giving it another bash. This time, however, I intend to spend more money on equipment and ingredients than I did during my college days and also produce a larger quantity. The first batch (approx 40 pints) will be bottled in 500ml glass bottles with a specially desgined label (thanks Matt!).
To this end I am fielding the questions:
'Any volunteers/victims for tasting the first batch?'
'Any suggestions for name's?' ('Teacher's Pet' and 'Behaviour for Learning have already been suggested)