Delta Spirit

Oh my goodness. I've seen these guys live twice now and they are just awesome!

Home Movies

We'll have to try and do this again in 2010 ...


Striper Fishing on the Chesapeake Bay with Tenacious Fishing Charters from Joe Budzinski on Vimeo.

Bozo Dies Again

"LOS ANGELES – Alan W. Livingston, the music executive who created Bozo the Clown and signed the Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records, has died. He was 91.

Livingston died Friday of age-related causes in his Beverly Hills home, said his stepdaughter, Jennifer Lerner. . ."

3 months, 3 pics

Philadelphia Airport smells like new band-aid



Newest Belgian brew is roaring, only 24hrs after pitching the yeast. Krausen in less than 12hrs.



Closed for lunch, in the stix.

Belgian Dubbel

No pics this time, as the batch comes so closely on the heels of the last. You can imagine the excitement in your head. Today's recipe was straightforward:

6.6# Briess CBW Pilsen Light Unhopped Extract (2 cans)
1# Dry Malt Extract (DME) Light
1# Dark Belgian Rock Candy
1/2# Caravienne
1/2# Caramunich
1/2# Special B
3 oz Styrians hops
Wyeast Trappist High Gravity (WY3787)

Again, the grains until it boiled only this time with cold water sparging. Then, once the boil began, the extracts, candy sugar, and 1 oz hops. Hops again at 30 and again at 15 minutes.

This time I used a funnel with a filter to remove as much of the hops and left over grains as possible when I put the beer into the carboy. I also added 1/4 cup of yeast nutrient. We'll see what happens. By comparison, the SG is about 1.072. Interestingly, I'll be away this week while it's fermenting. . .which sound like famous last words before a disaster.

kite catching

in Chicago at 3:15 this morning.

On Kites

Another college paper from the public health sector. Jefe, if you ever get published in the Journal of Mundane Behavior I will forever be proud. Particularly if it relates to language.

Shooting A Kite