Well, where to start, much has happened since my last post so I suppose I can start where I left off…
WTF was that shit?
*Ahem*
Well, I got a new job, one that can work around my other job, for optimal employment time. I am now an official paintball gremlin, with a user name and everything. This mostly consists of replying to emails slowly, writing product reviews slowly, live chatting with customers slowly (slower in Brazil, but we love you Brazilians!), packing boxes slowly and just generally doing what everyone else does, just not as fast. While I’m sure I will get faster it’s a little discouraging at times since these people are my friends and I don’t want to be a shitty worker and make it harder on them. Of course working with friends makes the days go by much faster and after almost 5 years of construction, I can barely believe people get paid for shit this easy. :D I am also working on my healthy contempt of people, something everyone gets once they work in retail for any amount of time.
Our first batch of beer got finished on Monday, I was firmly expecting it to be awful but we seemed to do it quite well, good color, good head (hur hur), good flavor, about what we were going for. It was slightly fruity but that has since gone away after a few days once the yeast was shut down by the cold. In other news pulled pork sandwiches are delicious even when they exhibit glue-like properties. It snowed like a motherfucker Monday night, our next little slice of snowpocalypse. The next day I went in for my first semi-work day at the paintball store, I must say it’s pretty awesome to work with your friends and cruise the internet to good effect all day, getting paid is a bonus on top of that.
Snowed more today, not too bad but such is life I guess, unless of course you drive a v8 rear wheel drive automatic…yea… about that. I got stuck in traffic on a hill, fortunately a nice gentleman in a SUV pushed my Crown Vic up the hill and got me going again, +1 Internets for you good sir. Needless to say I made Ethan drive the next day, his Subaru is a pretty cool guy, it drives up hills (as long as Ethan doesn’t turn off the traction control) and doesn’t afraid of anything. On Friday with quite the full house we did more beer shenanigans, firstly we went about bottling our red beer, it was going along swimmingly until about the last 25% was bottled this was about the time we realized that… we forgot to put in the priming sugar. That is important since without it the beer will not be carbonated, some scrambling later and semi-clever last minutes fixes and we will…probably have fucked it all up, but I suppose we shall see. We should have taken that as a sign but instead we went on to make our first recipe, an IPA, which I composed essentially by the seat of my pants and now in retrospect I feel I likely over did it a little, time will tell.
Saturday is played some EVE with my roommate and Looch, killed some rats, made some money etc. Then our GLORIOUS LEADER Lake sent out a ping to GET YOUR ASS TO MARS err… to the rally point, in a frigate, for something awesome in Delve. This had potential for epic written all over it so I hop in my INVINCIBLE CROW and rally up. Sadly no one really came out to play other than a bunch of sissies who ran from our Frigates in their Battlecruisers, it was a moral victory if nothing else.
On Sunday…I noticed the new season of Top Gear started…4 weeks ago, I fired up the internet and quickly geeked out on the Boys from Britain, mostly I learned that the BMW 325i is the best car ever and you should go buy one (or two, or three) right now. Later in the week my boss and I got carbon monoxide poisoning from the job site we were working at, no bueno. The next day we had to go to a house where the past tenant had been tear gassed by the police and someone had to replace the windows where the gas canisters were shot through them. So yea… got tear gassed the day after I got carbon monoxide poisoning, I think I need a raise.
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