Day off..

Had a good day off today. Wife and I had the house alone for once. It was nice. It was quiet...
I moved some beer today. After being in the primary carboys for 15 days, the beer has cleaned up nice. I will leave them to secondary for 7 days or so then transfer to kegs.Well, One batch I will move to a keg, I don't have room for two kegs in my kegerator.It has three kegs already in it. One Barley wine, a two year old Mead, and a Copper Ale I made on May third. I added 1 OZ. of cascade hops to one of the beers. The smell of the hops in these beers are great. Thought I would dry hop one and see how it comes out. Looks like I should try to brew again before I go on vacation. Don't want to get behind again..Nothing worse then running out of beer.
It is late, I have been stayin' up far to late the last week or so. Last night I was up till 3am. I guess I have a few hundred things on my mind.....Just can't stand to turn out the lights and sit and think.It is easier to pass out and dream then sit in the dark..
But I do have work in the am, so I guess I will try to get in bed.
Bks

Network???Hello??!!!

Well, I don't get it. I powered down "Pluto" added a gig of memory and booted back up. I then strung my back up cat5 wire all over the house and rebooted my router. My cameras were back online again. BUT, I can't have this wire all over the place, so I took it off and plugged the other one back in. And I am still on the net...
So if the power goes out, or I turn it off, I loss the network. If I plug in a NEW cat5 wire, get on line, then switch out to the chewed up line thatI have spliced 4 or 5 times, it works....
Who knows..... I am sure someone smarter then me. Or someone who could test my wire.... But It is online, so I wont touch a thing for now....
I am sure it will go down again the minute I go on holiday...hehe... Vacation....I just love the sound of holiday.. Anyway, I am sure they will go down before I leave the state and I wont be able to watch my house.....

If I can, but I am sure I have no idea how, I will set up a remote cam next month from the beach......I can only ask my friend for so much help, don't want to be a nag....
Later,
Bks

Storm part 2

I just figured out that after the storm and had rebooted everything, the Living room computer has lost connection to the router again. So now I am back to square one. I thought I fixed it when I spliced the cat5 wire. Guess I was wrong. Must be some other issue. I really need to figure this out soon....

Storm

The rain just hit with a fury. Took out my modem and all three computers. Put 6 inches of water in my basement in a matter of 10 minutes. everything has came back online, but the basement will be wet for a while.
Day off today, hitting the movies with the kids and wife.
I have added a gig of memory to one computer and will add a stick to the living room computer soon. Hope it helps me. These machines crawl now......
Talk at you later.
Bks

Ouch

I am a man. A beer drinking, Copenhagen usin', stinky MAN!
I have never really worried what I looked like,how I smelled, or worried about how much red meat I eat.
But today I messed up. We (the family) will be going to the beach soon. In ...lets say 2 to 6 weeks....Last year I had a little bit of sun poisoning. So today I used a tanning bed. It was hard to walk into a place that was full of 20 something good looking people. I am not worth looking at to most. But I did it because I didn't want toburn at the beach. Or have people try to roll me back into the water........ But that is beside the point.
Anyway, I felt that a stand up "bed" was more manly. I hear it is a "level 2" bed. But I don't know what that is.... Anyway, this is my first time, I have NO idea what I am doing, and I tell them to set me at 12 min.
I now know, hours later, this was a mistake. Well, I knew it was a mistake 30 minutes after I left. But it is getting worse. The red has done spread.....And I don't want to tell you that 7 minutes into it I took off the undies... So I will just tell you that I HURT almost everywhere!
If anyone was unlucky enough to look in on the cams around noon, you may have caught my fat ass walking all over the house without a shirt. Sorry.. I hope I didn't damage your eyes. I try to keep my clothes on when the cameras are running.. And now, I look like a lobster. A fat one.. Ready to be put in a pot.
And I still feel like a girl for going to a tanning bed in the first place.
So if are unlucky enough to tune in and see me half dressed, it is because I am a little hot... And my skin hurts....
Till next time....
Bk

June 15th update. Or computer problem update. Or brewin' update, or ...... whatever...

OK. So my living room computer hasn't been connected to the internet for a while now. I figure the problem is in the Cat-5 wire, or the on board network card. Is it a card if it is on the motherboard? Anyway, I had some ends put on a cable, and it worked. ((See other post.)Did I post that? Not that anyone reads this). Anyway, I didn't want to crawl under the house so I decided to cut into the cat-5 wire that the dog chewed into. ( Three times). I cut it all out AGAIN,and did a little splice job. It seems to be working again so I will leave it alone! We will see what happens.

On the beer front, On Saturday I made a 10 gallon batch of American Pale ale. It looks good so far. In a week to 15 days I move it to secondaries. I hope to brew again in two weeks,but it depemds how this one turns out.
I have the grains, so I must brew.......................
I have no Idea what I have put to paper(ONLINE), so I hope spelling and grammer is a littke OK, But as always, I do this for ME!

Computer update.

Well, the computer was on and off all day. I figured it was the network card or the cat5 wire. You know, the one that has been chewed in half three times by a little crap eatin' dog. So I figured it was the wire.
I had a new cable made and so far the computer is still online. So I will hope this is the only problem. Right now the cable is running all over the house. I guess when I get time, I will crawl in the dirt under my house and run this new cable.

I hate bugs........

Now,I need about 6 gigs of old memory for these machines.. So if you have any PC2100 or 2700, drop them in the mail!

Computer problems re-load

Well, Pluto is down again. This computer is driving me nuts. I have lost three cameras again, and have no idea why. WebcamXP starts, and seems to be running, but I can't maximize it. And add to the fact that it doesn't seem to be getting out to the net. I will be going out of town next month and wanted to keep an eye on the house, not sure I will be able to do that now.
Anyway, just wanted to let you all know what was going on. I haven't turned them off, they just wont come on!!!

Beer, beer,and MY beer.

I have been picking up a LOT of store purchased beer. Nothing wrong with that I guess. When I need good beer, I just go to Ohio, or Kentucky. If I don't make it out of town, I just pick up the best (LOL) of what I can here in town. I did make my very first batch of all grain on May 3rd. and it was great. I gave the first 5 gallons away, but I still have 5 gallons or more in a carboy in my basement. Long story short, I need to keg this batch! I am sick of going to the store when I have beer ready to go. I just need to keg the damn thing. So I have a keg soaking. I picked up some more tubing tonight to transfer with, so first thing in the AM I will move this beer to a keg. Monday noght I will have 5 gallons on tap to drink. Only other thing I have on hand is a Barley Wine, and a Mead. The barley wine is not something I like. But I made it almost two years ago when I really didn't know what I liked yet. It is good. Don't get me wrong. It is far better then I ever thought it would be, and might wine me an award or two, but not something I can sit and drink. The mead, well, you don't want to drink more then half a glass or two at a time. It is some strong stuff! It is also about two years old.
This coming Saturday I will be doing my second ever batch of all grain. It will be ten gallons of American Pale Ale. It will be close to 4 weeks before I can drink it, but maybe I wont need to pick up any beer before it is ready. I hope to brew again within 2 or 3 weeks after this APA. Before long I willl be caught up. I don't have many friends and I am not sure why ( It must be me....) but how many people do you know with 5 taps in the back room? Come 6 or 7 weeks, I will have them all running. Friends or no, I can drink myself happy.... Or try..............
I have 2 pounds of hops coming in the mail in the next day or so, and Thursday I will be picking up 110Lbs. of grains. This should last me for a few brews!
Later....