Upcoming Summer Movies

Since I don't have a job and I have internet again, I've spent some time looking at trailers at apple.com and I am now looking forward to seeing the these pending releases:

Eagle vs. Shark
28 Weeks Later
The Simpsons Movie
Color Me Kubrick
Spider Man 3
Shrek 3
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I feel a year or so behind on films in general and I would like to start catching up, but without a job I can scarcely find the time...

Down the Toilet

Today I am cleaning out the kitchen cabinets of my parents' house so I can paint them. While cleaning I came across some expired medicine so I decided to medicate the toilet.


I am still unemployed, but tonight I go on a working interview with Wendi's Cleaners to do some after-hours commercial cleaning. Mike D wants me to be wearing a backpack vacuum, but I'm doubtful.

Oh yeah, yesterday I watched the Who Killed the Electric Car? documentary which was pretty sweet. Even if you're not into 0 emissions or anti-global warming stuff, you should probably watch it because it has a couple shots of Mel Gibson with a sweet beard.

R.I.P. Old Rusty

A couple days after we returned to New Hampshire from Wyoming, the transmission on Old Rusty, our beast of an F150 XLT truck, said it's final farewell to the world. Now the poor mongrel only drives in 1st and 2nd gear, so it's time to let the world pass him by, or something. This afternoon we head to Nashua to try and trade him in for something that works and hopefully has better gas mileage. I'm hoping for a motorcycle with a sidecar...

Brown Ale

Mike D, my dad, and I worked on brewing a brown ale on Sunday. This one involved using the all grain method, no extracts or short cuts. We built some new equipment for the occasion and I think we were mostly successful. It's bubbling away in the basement right now. This was our test run for the batch of gluten-free beer that we'll be making from sorghum and buckwheat for my father since he can no longer have regular beer, that will get started in about 2 weeks.

Snow - Real New England Snow

There was a good ol' snow storm today. One of those classic ones that starts as snow and ends as rain with the wintery-mix somewhere between. Mike D, Pops, and I worked as a dream team to get the surfaces around the house cleared up.

Later Mike and I went to Justin's to help him tackle his driveway and we were rewarded with a Heineken each. Those Africans sure do love their Heineken.

Side note: Justin said that putting a metal spoon handle in a half-drank bottle of beer will keep it carbonated. For real? I think I need to try it myself sometime, but only when I have cheap crap beer to experiment with. After all, I wouldn't want to try it out on a half a Smoked Alaskan Porter only to end up with a flat half of Smoked Alaskan Porter.

Home Again

Bea and I have arrived back in Milford, NH. A 2200 mile journey accomplished in 4 days; not too shabby, but certainly no record. I was going to figure out the gas mileage and all that jazz, but to do so would require me filling up the tank (both 18 gallon tanks) one last time to get the final figures, and filling up those tanks costs a small (moderate) fortune.


Hurrah for New Hampshire.