Be Good Not Bad : Web Design :: Brian Warren : Denver, Colorado

This has been a weird week. Monday, I caught a ride to Arkansas with some friends, David and Mary. This is a bloody long drive – 14 hours.

Why go to Arkansas on a Monday? Well, I went to pick up a new car. New to me, that is. I picked up a 1991 Subaru Justy from my good friend Jason. I really like the car. It rattles, the seatbelt kinda doesn’t retract and the windshield is cracked. But it’s kinda spunky. It gets great gas mileage and just says “In your face, SUV. Sure, I have half the cylinders [note: the Justy has three], and my roof reaches about to your tailpipe, but I get 40 miles to the gallon and I got style!” And it does! Not only that, but it cost me $400, and it’s cheap to insure.

So I’m pretty happy with the car, I like its spunk, and it will get me around anytime anna has the other Subaru. I still plan to ride my bike to work anytime it’s …

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Aaron and Casey left on Friday, and this weekend Anna and I cleaned and relaxed. We had a great time with the guys, and it was sad to see them leave.

Also on Friday, Paul and I started our second batch of beer. This one is going to be a slightly hoppy version of an American amber ale. Boy were we in true form brewing this batch.

First of all, while steeping our bag of grains, we accidently let the steeping bag get too hot and it melted to the bottom of the pot! We moved the mixture into a new pot and tossed the bag.

Next, we brought it to a boil and threw in our hops. Immediately it boiled over creating a mess on the stove. We cleaned up and things seemed to calm down for a bit. We thought our troubles were behind us. After boiling for the correct amount of time, we needed to strain everything out and put it into a big glass bottle. In the …

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My good friends Aaron and Casey are minutes away from arriving at my house. Aaron is on a 15 day leave from Iraq (he’s in the 82nd Med), and he decided to spend a week of that time in Colorado. Casey is coming up from Siloam Springs for that time too. Hopefully some pictures of our time together for the next week might be forthcoming.

The beer, by the way, came out great! I tried a bottle a week after we bottled it, and it was good, but not great. After letting it sit a bit longer, the yeast had a chance to digest the last of the sugar, and now it tastes delicious! Come over sometime, we can have one together.