Happy Birthday Monotonia!

I love being implemented in a hit and run. Especially since there is no possible way that I could have been there to do it. Unless, I can be in two places at once ;-)

I have never met someone so mentally "off". I have met and have friends that are mentally challenged. Their actions are understandable, they act and live in this world the best that they know how. The neighbors "girlfriend" has a whole other kind of mental problem. Her actions are so irrational. The only reason my neighbor invites her around is to have sex. She realizes this and freaks out. She is looking for a long term relationship and somehow thinks that she can change a 55+ year old man. He gets fed up with her and tells her to leave (which is a battle). She leaves and then comes back at 1:00am and all of the neighbors doors are locked and after beating on the windows and doors she sleeps in her running car in my driveway. I know his actions are wrong. He invites her back because he wants to get laid. And of course she now has no house to live in, so she crashes at his after the sex fest. He is in denial and says that she isn't living there, but I am assuming that she spends the rest of her time at the bar. He says she doesn't have keys and he is locking the house up every day, but as soon as he leaves for work she is inside the house? I know they both have problems....I have already talked to him about it and nothing changes. I just need something to happen and that way I can call the sheriff and have her hauled off to the loony bin.

I haven't quite explained how she is crazy, but I am out of time....save it for the next post.

Ok, so I feel for the people who have lost there houses, but this is hilarious!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/californians_gather_to_celebrate?utm_source=embedded_video">Californians

I saw, with my own two eyes, a Prius doing 80 mph in the highway! I had always assumed that the combination of car and driver would never allow this to happen. I had always envisioned a large flash of light and all matter would cease to exist. What next? Hell freezes over and monkeys fly? I will have to assume that this was some sort of joke and it was a regular car with a Prius body welded around it. ;-)

1) Your name? Jerad

a youtube celebrity who loves to be the center of attention who happens to be the bestest friend anyone could ever ask for. funniest boy you will ever meet.
"jerad, can you not?" or "jerad, why are you so gross?!"
jerad thinks he's handsome, he thinks he's smart, he thinks he's a walking work of art. such a dazzling coat of many colors. how he loves his coat of many colors. best, i love you. soo much.

2) Your age? 29

29 centimeters. The traditional length of a balisong (butterfly knife). Approxiamatly 11.4 inches, of which the blade makes up for about 5 inches and the handle the rest.
I have numerous cuts on my hands from playing with my 29.

3) One of your friends? Seth

An extremely cool kid, often dresses nice, wear sunglasses, is egotistical, intelligent, has a high income, and drinks Red Bull on the rocks quite often.
Female: You look sexy today, you look like a straight up Seth!
Male: Oh ha ha, you know me...=)

4) What should you be doing? Research Paper

Evil, pure evil. Its basically not a discussion, but a gathering of all your infomation on a certain topic.

5) Favorite color? Blue

The hue of the portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in a human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers.

6) Hometown? Paso Robles

Paso Robles (full name: El Paso de Robles) is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. Paso Robles is the fastest growing city in San Luis Obispo County: Its population at the 2000 census was 24,297; by 2007 this number had risen to 29,297. It is estimated that by 2010 the population will be approximately 32,400, and that it will reach 44,000 by 2025. Located on the Salinas River north of San Luis Obispo, California, the city is known for its hot springs, and for playing host to the California Mid-State Fair. In English, the name means "Oak Pass" or "The Pass of the Oaks."

7) Month of your birthday? july

A month when mostly the hottest girls are born

8) Last person you talked to? jamie

A sweet girl with a cheery disposition on life, love and friendship. A cute girl.

9) What did you last eat? egg

a white person that has a fetish for asian women/men. white on the outside/yellow on the inside.

10) Your nickname? Jed

a guy who is so vicious you cannot comprehend his viciousness. he kicks so much ass that he is an ass kickin machine and all the ladies come flockin to honey. jed is the master, the one ruler of all! he is the one man able to kick ass on a daily basis, and he could bang your mom so quick, she wouldnt know where the intense pleasure came from! to simplify, jed is the master biatch!!!!!!
Wow man, i sure wish i could be jed! he sure is cool! i wish i had the mad bitches jed gets!!!

One hot man.
I want to have Jed's babies.

hes the fuckin masta.. jed gets all da bitches, u aint got shit on him hoe. go to da plate, he whoops ya azz in baseball 2. dont mess, he from gwood. represent
jed owns your ass, donkey.

Brilliant, superb, top of the league, king of the gods.

Derived from the word, Jedi, which itself doesn't mean anything
This buckie is pure jed by the way.

First image that pops up on the google search for you birth date.

I used to brew a lot. I still brew two to three batches of beer a year and for the most part they come out fantastic. That is if you are a beer aficionado. Good beer doesn't taste like the crap that most grocery stores sell. I have found myself lately brewing some of the rarer beers. It's hard to find a good barley wine (witch for the unknowing isn't a wine). Being that you MUST age it for at least a year, most home brewers wont try making it.

Things have changed up a bit though. My father purchased 10 acres a few years back, which was covered in zinfandel grapes. Now, I hate that my wonderful home town, that once was surrounded in alfalfa, barley, oats, and other grains, is now overrun in winery's. That is a whole other gripe, but I understand people wanting to make as much money as possible. Any way... since I am the brewer in the family, it has been put upon me to make a small batch of wine to represent my fathers new "vineyard". He has the vineyard set up so another winery takes care of the vines and harvests the grapes in turn for a minimal fee. This year he set it up so I conveniently received 100 pounds of grapes to make a few cases of wine.

I gave in to the pressures and took on the task. I have to say crushing and juicing is a pain in the ass if you don't have the right equipment. The rest of the process... EASY! A quote from the owner of the brewing supply here in SLO "you are already a great brewer... making wine wont be a challenge for you". I have to say making an decent wine is so much easier than a decent beer. Not to take way from those master wine makers/mixers, but if you start with good grapes you end up with good wine. At any point in the process, of there is a funky taste/smell you can fix it! Making beer and you have a funky taste or smell you are better off starting over.

Tonight I re-racked the wine to start the Malolactic fermentation. I took the initial gravity and the current gravity and calculated the current alcohol percentage. I am sitting at 17.6% (which is why I am feeling the effects right now). I figured that it was going to be high because I started at 27.5 bricks (high sugar percentage per volume). I tasted it for the first time, not to toot my own horn, and it is fantastic. I still have to oak age it and let it sit for 1~2 years, but I think I like it the way it is.

Any way, my original intention with this post was to explain that I hope to start making more tasty beer. With the money situation getting a little tight, I don't know if that is to be in the cards. My coworkers and neighbors think that I should sell the beer I make, which sounds like a huge hassle to me. I think I need to narrow down my hobby's to one or two and stick with it. There are just too many cool things that I like and want to partake in. I have given up a lot. There are a few things I just cant rid of.

Too bad it cannot even support itself.

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