Remember this teaser from last post?
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Next up: A teaser.
This coming Friday, July 30th, at noon local Adelaide time I will be live tweeting and live blogging an event. For those of you who have no idea about international time zones, I'll give you some handy times.
If you are in Alaska, the event will occur at 6:30 PM, Thursday July 29th.
If you are on the US East coast, the event time will be 10:30 PM, Thursday July 29th.
If you are in France, it'll be 4:30 AM, Friday July 30th.
If you are in Sydney, check in at noon-thirty on the 30th, no worries.
Beer will be involved. And maybe yoghurt. Probably a toilet.
The event should last no longer than 30 minutes. 45 max.
Any guesses?
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Before I let you know what the Event is I need to tell you that we have a new neighbor. And she's young, nubile and very hot lookin'! So don't tell Wifey-Poo, ok?
The other day she gave me one of those over-the-shoulder-come-hither looks that I'm sure all you cranky old guys are used to getting from young girls. Or is it just me?
Fortunately, I had the camera with me at the time!
Here she is, me new girlyfriend!
Well, I guess Wifey-Poo doesn't have anything to be worried about after all.
Next up: What is The Event!
It involves beer, of course. Specifically, homebrew. More specifically, a homebrew that was made 7 and 1/2 months ago!
Remember this post from mid december 2009?
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Variety is the Spice of Life
Yes, it is. Why would you want to do the same boring, mundane thing every single day and then on the weekends do the same boring, mundane thing that you've done every weekend for the last 20 years?
Do something different! Change something! Spice up your life!
Heck, if I'd been content to drive the same truck every day, punch the same clock, receive a really good paycheck with awesome benefits, ride the bike on the same roads/trails as the previous 1231 weekends, teach the same stuff four times a week in the evenings; well, gosh.
I certainly wouldn't be in Australia if I wanted to do the same thing day in and day out.
And I certainly wouldn't have an outdoor pool. I hear they aren't too common up in Fairbanks for some reason.
And I certainly would still be working!
You owe it to yourself to TRY SOMETHING NEW!
Variety is the SPICE of life. And if you don't like spices in your life then you are probably only popular at a Star Trek Trivial Pursuit convention. Jus' sayin'.
Speaking of spices... I happened upon a couple of really nice chilli peppers the other day.
I have tentatively identified them as a sub-species of Capsicum annuum. I do believe they are the cayenne variety.
These puppies are 20 times hotter than a jalapeno and 10 times hotter than tabasco sauce. However, they are only 1/5th the hotness of the thai peppers I grow (got 9 really awesome thai chilli plants this year). But hey, they are still good.
Lookie here if'ns ya don't beeleave me:
To do what I planned to do with them (GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!), I first needed to snip the stems.
BTW, Mundial kitchen shears are da bomb! Hand crafted in Madrid, doncha know.
And I also needed to pierce them full of holes:
You'll notice I don't wear rubber gloves when handling chillis. It's cus I'm not a wuss. Besides, I've got so many callouses from, ah, um, er, other activities that I don't have to worry about and juice stinging.
But what am I planning on doing with these chillis? Weeeeeeelllllllllll, since you asked...
This is a 750 ml bottle ready for BEER! 750 mls is twice the size of wussie US beers, BTW. These are BIG chillis!
They barely even fit!
One with, one without.
Soon to be both "with".
And after a nice lager has been added to do it's secondary fermentation in the bottle
I'll let you know how they taste in about a week from now.
Hey, take a chance! Ya never know!
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Yes, I have ONE, count it twice, ONE of the chilli beers left. And that beer has been soaking up all the chili heat goodness for a long time now! In fact, just the other day I say the chili twitch and the bottle moved.
Tomorrow at noon I will be opening it and consuming it. And I will tell you all about it LIVE as it happens!
So tune in exactly 19 hours from RIGHT NOW to this blog and to my tweeter account! I'll be updating every few minutes so just click the refresh button to get the latest.
Hallucinations?
Sickness?
Giddiness?
Transcendental experiences?
Finding out if there's an afterlife?
Who knows what'll happen!
Just be here. Friday. July 30th. Noon. Adelaide, South Oz time.
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