FurAffinity United: 5 Meme!

How're You Getting There?
Riding down on my trust steed, "Seawhisper the Stout" with some of my most valuable possessions in tow, including my 1972 Worldcon Snow-globe, the exhumed human remains of my 16th century ancestor, made into a fashionable leather jacket and all my Cristina Agulera CDs.

Where You Stayin?
I will probably be staining my shirt with the juices of many sushis and chicken wings and possibly some of the porecious little beer I will be allowed to consume, lest I release the ancient demon posessing me "Shaa-tum-Ka" or as he is known "The drunk dog asshole"

When?
8/15-8/20, but not in your time... in my time. Stardate 66090-66098

Roomates?
I will not have any apes in my room? What am I staying in a zoo? What kind of person are you suggesting I am!

Gender?
Dogman.

Fursuiting?
Dogman.

Relationship Status
Collared and loving it.

Who you will be with a majority of the time?
Whoever will be buying me the most sushis and chicken wings.

Main Purpose?
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Where do you usually eat?
I do not get how this question is about the con, but ok! I usually eat in front of my computer.

Artist Alley?
I do not live in an alley, and I am sure any "artists" you find in an alley are really just hobos that got spray painted by the local hoodlums... I am not a hobo and I have not been spray painted so I have no idea where you get the idea I live in some kind of alley full of "artists".

Parties?
I have parties all the time outside of cons so I figure I should just keep carrying on like I usually do and drink heavily while ignoring people as I play computer games.

Daily/Nightly activities?
My legal counsel has advised me not to incriminate myself prior to any possible occurrences that may or may not occur. It IS New Jersey.

Do you talk in suit?
Yes, while I am into kinky bondage and the like, I usually like to be ungagged because my lady likes hearing me whimper and bark. ... oh wait did you mean fursuit? Oh uhhh... same answer >.>

Rules of engagement out of suit?
Don't fire upon the enemy unless they are a direct threat to personnel, equipment of mission objectives. If the enemy is posing a direct threat, then neutralize them with extreme prejudice. Prisoners are to be taken at any chance, but give no quarter to those refusing to surrender. That's basic rules of engagement right?

Rules of engagements in suit?
Why am I wearing a suit in a combat situation? is this some kind of heavily uparmorered suit? does it have mounted guns? Why are these questions so confusing and what do they have to do with FA:U? I know it's in New Jersey, but I didn't think we'd need to know like military tactics or something!

How far is too far?
A Bridge Too Far.

Can I dance with you?
I don't know if you can dance or not! WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME AAHHHH!

Can I take pictures with you?
Again, I guess you could if you had a camera, but without a camera I guess you can't....is this a trick question?

Can I buy you things?
I... what? This is another trick question isn't it? How bout, no. No, keep your dirty money, I don't need your love. Ha!

Best communication medium to reach you?
Miss Laurie is an excellent Medium and I constantly get messages from her across the ether. It may be hard to contact her tho as she's been dead for like 15 years. So unless you know where to dig, I suggest that If you need to get in contact with me, maybe texting me or calling me would be a better option.

Watch this journal for more information about a couple of sheppies being crazy on cam. Dunno what streaming site we're going to use yet. Between Tinychat getting horrible stream rates and livestream having commercials now... we're sniffing around.

Be assured, there WILL be NERF guns.

Everyone made it back here safely. Everything made it here in one piece. The trucks have been returned, the cars are running fine still, and we're spent the last few days recovering and unpacking.

The great shepherd migration is complete and  sheppymomma is getting settled in.

We've been talking to people already and we're really looking forward to slowly getting to meet everyone in the area.

It's taco night and there are NERF darts everywhere. Life is good.

I had to make a post about this, because it's such an awesome thing.

 Sheppymomma is moving up here to NH, in about a week. The plan is pretty much as follows, if my car is ready by June 8.
Tuesday, June 5: Get call from repair shop in PA that my car will be ready to pick up on the weekend. Call Enterprise Rent-A-Car to have a pickup truck ready for me to drive down. Call insurance company to get them to make the arrangements for me.
Wednesday-Thursday, June 5-7: Panic attack, panic attack, panic attack, panic attack... prepare to drive to PA.
Friday, June 8: Work all day, be nervous wreck till my boss has mercy and lets me out at like 3 or 4pm. Pick up Truck. Talliy Bunny (my co-pilot) shows up.
Saturday, June 9: Drive down, if we didn't drive down Friday night already. Pack cars, pack truck, giggle like a school girl the entire day. If we drove down Friday, maybe drive back home, with her car, my car and the rental truck fully loaded, in a good ole convoy.
Sunday, June 10: Drive back up (if we didn't on Saturday) and be unpacked by the end of the day into the storage unit and her new apartment. Giggle like a school girl the entire day. High five Talliy for helping. Snuggle sheppylady into forevers, or until I have to work Monday.
Monday, June 11: Literally the most unproductive day of work ever as I spending it bucking against the reigns to get out of work to see her again.

Then sometime soon, have a housewarming party once she's settled in and whatever.

God dammit I'm already jittery.

SO I woke up today massively depressed/sick/achey. I had one of those "powerless feeling" dreams about my brother and my car accident. I won't go into details. My wrists and my head were pounding with pain and my knee was almost too painful to move and I sat bolt upright in a cold sweat at about 6:00. I was almost late to work because I hit my alarm until about 7:30 trying to recover some sense of stability, hoping another 5 minutes of fitful tossing in bed would change that. No such luck, I showed, shaved, got dressed and rode my bike into work and took 3 advil when I got in. I was so out of it, I haven't bothered to eat yet today, which I guess is fine since I am such a terrible person for being a huge fatass.

I came into to work, and the website we do most of our business with the NH DES (Department of Environmental Services) is still down, after a week, so my dad is stressing more than usual. He's been depressed since March 1st and I'm starting to wear thin myself, finding myself barely holding onto my composure sometimes. We're also doing monitoring reports which are seriously the most frustrating thing because it's as close to working with regulators as we get and these ... people, have nothing better to do than to tell you new and exciting ways to make paperwork for a simple report even longer and more asinine.

Our computer system has also been acting up for the last month, with a shiny awesome supposed-to-be-fast-and-awesome Network Attached Storage device that after a month, won't transfer data faster than 10mb/s on our gigabit network with two modern computers. I finally got tired of WDs god awful tech support, shitty technology and fucking horrible updates/interface and pulled the 10 year old repurposed e-machine we used to use back out and now we're actually able to do work again. Also, my dad "updated" Adobe and now nothing opens, or it opens super slow even on his own machine. After a delightful talk with Adobes tech support, they suggested buying the latest version! Awesome support guys! Thanks, let me give you another $300 for a program you're going to probably "update" again in a year that will break it and force us to spend even more money.

They have a new person also doing our lab reports (did I mention we're doing our groundwater sampling for April and May?) and they sent us preliminary reports, which we can't use as the state requires QA/QC checked reports.... AND then they didn't send us invoices. This is all pretty common bullshit I deal with but... We had this all nailed down last year and it seems that someone somewhere is almost dumping piles of shit karma all over us. Thankfully, business has been good recently, and we could honestly not do any work for a year and still be in the black, but I like being able to rock out a report in a day and right now, I have 5 reports waiting for research, 3 groundwater monitoring reports waiting to be submitted, and no car so I have to use my dads 100 year old truck to do water sampling... and it's been pouring rain and cold and shit weather.

Also, all my new plants died, an entire batch got algae and it ate all the roots for my spring garden. My hydroponics arrays are now full of dead old plants cause I haven't had any plants to replace them with, so my apartment smells like rotting jalapeno peppers and nasty swamp water. I'm a bit peeved. I have just left it cause I've been too stressed, too mentally weak to focus and fix three plant arrays. My lemon bushes are also not doing so hot, so....that's another thing gone wrong. My apartment is a mess, I need to do a trash run, do laundry, and clean out my storage area.

Over the last weekend, there had been a string of spray painting vandalism along the street I live on. The cops obviously can't really do anything about it. They got our property and painted the side of one of my tenants trailers... his *new* trailer. They also spray painted on brick, which never ever comes off completely. Worst part, it's ICP fans. Juggalos vandalized my property. I guess I couldn't wish anything worse on them than that. Except maybe to have a can of spary paint shoved up their asses.

This is all on top of being anxious about my fiance getting a job and apartment up here, her parents making her life hell, my car being in the shop near-totaled by some jackass that drove off, and my weight not going down despite being hungry all the time and riding my bike 5 miles a day.

But, at least I have my freedom, own place, my own car (with insurance), a loving fiance, both parents, money in the bank, a good job and I live in Keene, NH in America. I have a lot to bitch about, I don't usually bitch about it, but today, I got low, I needed to vent. Sorry.

As a lot of you probably know, I got engaged to  sheppymomma over the past weekend. However, on my way back to NH from PA some douche bag ricer decided he wanted to show off how cool he was. On a merge, he drifted into my lane with his rear end fishtailing (it was raining) and he wailed the front of my car. After I watched him speed off into the sunset, I managed to get my car started again and limped to the nearest safe place. I'm fine and my insurance company called it a hit and run so I'm not at fault. I got towed to an approved repair shop and got a rental car and drove back to NH.

Now my insurance is still deciding if they want to total the car or repair it, because my radiator etc got whacked back onto the block and everything just got all sorts of messed up. The shop is saying $5500 in damages and the last I checked on Kelley Blue Book my car is worth about 7-8k. Either way, my deductible is $500, which is fine, since the car needed timing and serpentine belts done and a coolant flush (which at a shop would be about $500)

So, I guess if I am going to either event this weekend, I would need a ride. Or I could stay home all weekend and play D3.

PS: I am physically fine, mentally ok, and financially stable. This is why you have insurance people, right here. I had a tow truck and a rental car before I knew I needed them and felt about as comfortable as anyone could in that kind of situation. I'm still amazingly pissed off, but if they do total my car then huzzah I get to buy a new car. If they repair it, I get a great excuse to go back down and see my fiance for another long weekend.

I've gotten back into terraria, especially with Hardmode now active. If you play and want to come hang out on our server, note/im me!

Pretty simple really. We have a hardmode world and a new world, tons of items for noobs and are looking for people to help us down hardmode bosses.

This weekend I am putting together the forge and the little workshop. I need a little help, horsepower if you will, to move some stuff around and setup a few pieces of equipment. I might even fire it up and bang some metal. Also planting some plants and stuff as well as fixing up hydroponics systems. I also need to load up my media server.

I guess what I am saying is I'm gonna be busy this weekend. If people wanna come hang out and go out for sushi, maybe we could also go back up to FunSpot one day, or go for a hike or something.

Edit: The Summer Brown Ale is out, it's pretty good. Aproovakeeting it tonight and posting to my pics.

My main hard drive in my primary, awesome gaming rig, has started to die, to the point where I cannot actually boot into windows. As of yet, I am not even sure I can recover data off the hard drive conventionally. However, the hard drive is still recognized and does still try to boot into windows, it just hangs. When I used a LiveUSB of xubuntu, I couldn't see the drive to diagnose any problems tho, so it may be a moot point.

My Netbook, Phone, Wii and 3DS are all working perfectly fine. Luckily for me Newegg is having it's spring cleaning sales this week. Hellooo new solid state drives.

PS: Thankfully, I regularly back up everything onto a portable 300GB HD, so I didn't lose any personal data (porn). However, I do think I lost all my games, which is fine since Steam is easy enough to reinstall and I don't play WoW or SW:TOR anymore anyway. This gives me time to play some pokemans, the metroids and some new fangled King Icarius game. (just kidding, I'm just playing the old Kid Icarus in 3D) Also, what kinda of amazing dexterity do they have in Japan? Anyone else who played the new Icarus will know what I'm talking about. Seriously. Hand-held seizure-inducing fingers-in-knots nightmare-box. This is why I am amazingly hesitant to buy video games kids.

I need some alone time. I'll be back in a week. Sorry, I just can't sit on my computer till 4am anymore. It's making me crazy and sick and more miserable than usual.


Not even sure anyone reading this will probably even notice.

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20.....ntProfile=1051

My brother perished last night after being in an avalanche. He was an expert skier, had training, an avalanche beacon and was skiing with two other expert skiers. He just climbed Mt McKinley last year and knew the risks and had as much prep as anyone could hope to have. The two other skiers survived and went for help, and nobody else was hurt, so that is a blessing in itself.

He was always an adventurer, climbing stuff, racing mountain bikes, skateboarding and always disappearing on the weekends to go climb some mountain or hike somewhere. He got in trouble more than I did, but I'm sure he had fun every second. He was the bad boy, the badass, and while we are all saddened by his loss, we are glad that he at least died doing what he loved in his element.

He had his group of friends and I had mine and we didn't always get along, but he was my little brother all the same. I can't stop going over in my mind, all the memories from when we were little kids, all the times we had together, the toys we shared, the fights we had, and playing with the neighborhood kids. He was always his own person, never clinging to me or hanging off me and my friends. He actually was way more social than I ever was in school. We were on good terms last time we spoke and it brings some modicum of peace to me that he was on good terms with everyone he knew.

I don't know what else to say about this. We will all miss him, and he'll always be in our hearts and minds as the free spirit he was.

Stolen from  chainerprime

[ ] you meow/bark to get attention
[ ] you find pets toys amusing
[ ] you get hyper by the smell of catnip
[ ] you growl/hiss when someone gets too close to your food
[ ] you growl/hiss when someone you dislike is too close to you
[ ] you purr/shake your leg when someone shows you affection
[ ] if someone tosses a ball, you chase it and bring it back
Total: 0

[ ] you love to be scratched behind the ear
[x] you love fish/meat
[ ] you like to stick your head out through the window of a moving car.
[ ] you like when people pet your head
[ ] people can make you stop doing stuff by hitting you on the nose with a newspaper
[ ] you think feathers are fun to play with
Total: 1

[ ] you sleep a lot during daytime
[x] you enjoy scaring birds
[ ] you lick peoples faces to show you like them
[ ] you bite people if they annoy you
[x] you tend to steal food from your friends/family's plate when you have eaten all of yours
[x] milk or water is your favorite drink
Total: 4

[x]you own a collar and you enjoy wearing it
[ ] you own a leash and enjoy wearing it
[x] you own animal ears/tail/paws or a fursuit
[x] you enjoy long walks in the park
[ ] you meow/bark when you see something you want
Total: 7

[ ] you call your hands and feet "paws"
[x] you tilt your head when you do not understand what someone is talking about
[ ] you run to the door when someone mentions a walk
[x] you really enjoy cuddling
[ ] you stretch your body and whimper a bit every morning when you wake up
[x] you can wake up and go back to sleep right away after looking around
Total: 10

[ ] you have your favorite spot besides your bed where you like to sleep
[ ] you meow or bark very often
[ ] you hide when you get scared
[ ] you run to the door to see who it is every time someone comes in to the house
[ ] you like to chase flying insects and try to catch them with your bare hand
[ ] you tend to chew on stuff a lot
[ ] you like to do tricks to get a treat
Total: 10

[ ] you own a wearable item/tag with your name on it
[ ] you refer to yourself as an animal
[ ] your username has something to do with animals
[ ] your e-mail has something to do with animals
[ ] if you get a bleeding wound, you lick it to make it feel better
[ ] you look for edible stuff often
Total: 10

[ ] you often find yourself looking through the window for a long time
[x] you like to say hi to strangers
[ ] you like to be petted when you have done something good
[ ] people think you act like a pet
[ ] you growl/hiss at stuff you do not like
[ ] you like to eat grass
[x] if you get wet, you shake to get rid of the water
Total: 12

Final total: 12

Take your score and multiply it by 2

24% Furry - This test is more of a measure of how much of a huge fur-derp you are. Ayup. (PS: I am using fur-derp in place of another word that some might find offensive. PPS: that word is furfag)

For the last two weeks I have been pouring over articles about people running small hydroponics farms all over the northern continental Americas, and I've been seriously considering starting a side business where I sell produce... So last night I bought a bunch of parts and started building a new prototype array that will fit onto my existing systems. I'm fairly confident I can throw together a few of them for less than what I am getting from my tax refund.

As for beer... I have one empty keg left and I'm almost out of the pinkie pie pilsner. I need to start making another beer now, or I'll be out by the time another batch is ready and that would be a sad thing. I'm thinking some kind of late winter beer, maybe a pale ale or something.

I replaced the CO2 tank for my keg-works. The beer is back online at the Sheparaium.

Going to be splitting the Pepperocini plants to two arrays tonight, cause they got huge. Crowing is not something that plants are often keen on.

Also this week/weekend I'm going to be implementing the most recent upgrade to the hydroponics system. I found things that will act as bulkhead fittings so I no longer have to constantly check the sheeting for leaks after I move the buckets.

General maintenance of the Shepararium will also commence, I will attempt to remove the broken TV from my living room, as well as reorganize my livingroom into a more acceptable configuration for TV and Internet intake.

Probably gonna have people over. Open door policy enacted from Friday 5pm to Monday at 8am. BYOBBB (bring your own beer, booze, and bedding)

It has come to my attention that a lot of people in New England are suffering from S.A.D. something easily treated with some sunlight and/or the proper vitamins. I was considering having a party for a weekend, where people sleep regularly, take the right vitamins and get plenty of sun phase light.

That would be cool, and would also bust up the cabin fever going on after the last few weeks of mind-numbing coldness.

For more info, please consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season.....ctive_disorder

If anyone is interested in partaking some of my sun-phase light, D-suppliments and a de-stressing weekend of good food, good sleep and good times, please do not hesitate to post here.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3077327/

I am going and will be able to drive people down in my car. I have room for 4 medium sized people. I'm not gonna mess with cash for gas cause I'm not like that. Note, txt, twitter, AIM or send me smoke sginals if you are interested in going. I will be leaving from my place in Keene, NH.


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ERR I MEAN EDITION HOW EMBARRASING... ...anyway!

THE UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS QUIZ

Rules:
You must answer everything truthfully or whoever you got this from can slap you in the face. Unless, y'know, you're good at lying. No embarrassed/laughing/otherwise emoticons allowed! No explaining or elaborating! Just your answer, in as few words as possible!
Also, we know everyone masturbates and everyone has embarrassing designs on their underwear. Don't lie to us. OK, GO GO GO!


What color are your underwear?
Lesse, it's Friday soooo... probably navy blue. ALL MY UNDERWEAR IS NAVY BLUE. If it's not, it's probably black and thongy or made out of leather, rubber, latex or something frilly and lacey. Nope, navy blue today. I checked.

Do they have a design?
Boxer briefs.

Girls, what color is your bra?
I am a man.... but I have a few different colored bras. Not on, oh goodness no. They're not for ME you understand, they're for my plushies.

Is there a design?
Oh various designs. Again, rubber/latex/leather ones, as well as red and black lace. Mmm, my favorite.

Are you a virgin?
Heh. Is the Pope a Zoroastrianist?

Happy that way?
I'm happy now that I've found an intelligent, hard working, self-actualized life-partner. The awesome sex is just a bonus.

What is your favorite sex position?
Rolling thunder, pounding rain outside, on a plush carpet in front of a roaring stone fireplace after a fine meal of steak and deep red wine...

What is your sexuality/sexual orientation/What the fuck do you consider yourself?
Pansexual. Only into guys that are half goat and play old timey musical instruments.

Do you look at hentai (cartoon porn)?
Yes, tho I don't go around advertising it or favoriting it. If I like a particular piece, I download it.

Real porn?
Define "real porn". I've seen pictures that involve multiple consenting adults that are arousing, but do not necessarily involve sex in any definition of the word. Otherwise, yes, real porn does it for me too. Unf.

Do you read smutty/porn stories?
TL:DR

Do you read/watch/look at gay porn/hentai/stories?
TL:DR/no/Oh my yes.

Who was your first kiss with?
I don't count any of the kisses I'd ever had, till I kissed my

Are they of the opposite sex?
Er, yes.

Have you ever kissed or had sex with someone of the same sex?
Yes.

Is there any one of your friends that you would ever consider having sex with?
I think the real question is... "Is there any one of your friends that you would ever consider not having sex with?"

What would you do if you walked in on your partner having sex?
Uhhh oh oh I know the right answer! "UGH ME LOGARTH, Y U MAI TOUCH WOMAN". No seriously, if I walked in on it I'd be all like, "Started without me"

Do you have any piercings other than your ears?
No, but I've always considered it, as well as a tattoo. I just never had a good reason to.

If so, where?
Probably somewhere nobody other than my lady could see :D

Do you have any tattoos?
Maybe eventually.

If so, where?
Again, only somewhere my lady would see.

Have you ever been pregnant/got a girl pregnant?
Negative.

Ever done any illegal drugs?
I am on so many drugs, I am sure at one point in time or another some of them were either out of prescription or were not my prescription to begin with. So, I plead the 5th.

If so, which ones?
To quote Dave Chapelle, "FIZZIFTH!"

Have you ever cheated on someone?
Define "cheated". Cause I mean, there was this point in time I wasn't actually going out with a person but we were seeing each other now and then in a semi-romantic fashion, but I was invoking friends with benefits almost every weekend with other people. This was in college to after college.

Ever been cheated on?
Not that I ever found out about or would have cared about. I'm pretty open minded.

Have you ever been called a whore/slut?
Not to my face. There are the rare cowards that are just jelly and aren't man enough to say anything to me personally.

Do you own any sex toys?
Yes, but they aren't for me. They're for my dolls.

Have you ever had a sexual fantasy involving a relative?
No. Dear God no.

Have you ever masturbated?
Is the space pope reptilian?

Have you ever taken a naked picture of yourself?
Yes.

Have you ever taken a naked picture of someone else?
Do naughty fursuit pictures count?

Are you on any form of birth control(the pill, the patch, etc)?
Yes... it's called a long distance relationship.

Have you ever written/drawn smut/porn?
Written. Not published.

Do you swear in front of your parents?
Occasionally.

Do they care?
No.

Are you uncomfortable yet?
Yes, this chair is horrible and my hands are cold.

Are you taking this quiz of your own free will?
Yes, I am at work and wanted to take a break from filling out huge reports by filling out a questionnaire.

Tag some bitches and bug them until they take this!
Or else a dead girl will kill you, or you'll have bad luck, or.. I dunno, Rainbows won't look as pretty. Go, GO NAO.

Happy birthday to me.... whoo.

I think I'm having a party Tuesday here at my place.

Also, thank you to everyone at the Brattleboro bowling meet for sharing my cake and wishing me well. Whoot.

So I go to pay my credit card bill this month. I was expecting it to be pretty big because I put all of Furfright and a few hydroponics arrays on it in the course of the month. Heh, I was a bit shocked at $2,500. Niiiice. Oh well that's why I have a job and save up for nice things with fun money and don't buy stupid shit on a whim. *cough*nerfguns*cough* Ok ok, except Nerf guns.

Nothing felt quite as awesome as being able to pay that in full too. Credit card is at a zero balance. October and November are costly months for me too. Furfright(CHEAP!), Car insurance for the next 6 months, car registration, new tires, license renewal this year, oil tank filled, furnace serviced... and black friday. *crosses arms* and not a financial fuck was given that month.

PS: I'm not going to MFF this year. Not because I can't afford to go. I'm not going because certain temptations at MFF in years past have left me fatter and poorer and frankly it's not worth it to pay a few hundred bucks so I can drink and eat excessively and then feel like a moron for a week afterwards shedding the 10lbs I put on.

PPS: I've also found that local events are far more rewarding, less stressful, and are far less prone to the "embiggening" effect cons have. I think I'm gonna try to do more of those in the future. Which will be hard since I'm pretty much everywhere already. Reaching for that star!

I updated a bunch of my hydro arrays this past weekend. I just got around to photographing some of the new stuff and I think Everything looks soo much better than it did from the last cycle of plants I had in there. Soo many dead plants. I also got awesome pictures!

A4 summer squash plants, blooming ironically on the first day it snows. There are currently several flowers on the oldest plant and about 30 more buds on the other plants ready to go.
http://saucepls.info/A/79/Squash.JPG

Ahhhhhh Golden Greek Pepperocini pepper plants. Yes yes yes I love these. Babies and a few adolescence plants are rocking out in my shielded array. The oldest plant has buds and flowers already. Looking forward to pickling these.
http://saucepls.info/A/3f/Peppers.JPG

I saved a bunch of topsy-turveys from a dumpster, fixed them and put dirt and roma tomatoes in them. Which is good cause the romas were getting too big for the sprouting array and getting burned by the lights. They're doing better already and they turned up like that over night.
http://saucepls.info/A/bc/Tomatoes.JPG

I salvaged about half of my herb garden. From the left: Dill, Thyme, Parsely, Cilantro, Basil and Oregano. This array is also going to get some Bok Choy or maybe some Tobacco plants once they sprout.
http://saucepls.info/A/46/Herbs.JPG

This weekend, Saturday, Keene NH is having its annual pumpkin festival. The entire main street is full of carved pumpkins. About 30,000+ jack-o-lanterns. We'll hang out, party, drink, watch the parades and have a last down town.

People can show up on Friday after 5pm and my place will be open to the public until Sunday. The pumpkin fest is ONLY SATURDAY, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...

Talliy has a virtual ticket to Blizzcon, which is the same weekend!!! It will be live and streaming allll weekend, so if you're a WoW or Starcraft fan (or any blizzard game) come on over and join us. We'll be watching it on my big screen TV streaming from the website.

Bring beer, food, cash money, costumes and we'll have a awesome Halloween Party!

PARTY!

EDIT: Apparently, the event will only be going until around 8pm, but the streets won't be clear until around 9-10pm. That doesn't mean we'll miss anything, just that it won't be going as late as it did last year. Also, college kids will probably be rowdy so just be cautious driving to my place since I'm in a college neighborhood and as much as I dislike drunk idiots, I'd hate to have any of my friends get in trouble for running them over.

Here's da rules!

1. You must post these rules (Very Important indeed).
2. Each person must post 11 things about themselves in their journal.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4. You have to choose 11 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
5. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
6. No tag backs.
7. No stuff in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you are reading this." You legitimately (AKA, really, truly, with all honesty) have to tag 11 people.


1.) If you had to be part of an ancient society, of which would you be?
The British Explorers Society.

2.) If you were in charge of the national weather service and you had to name the next hurricane, what would you name it?
Caligula, cause it sucks, blows and screws everyone and everything, leaving entire area destitute, dirty and/or dead and doesn't see anything wrong with it.

3.) You just bought your dream home. You have a master bedroom and bathroom to design. What sorts of design elements/furniture would you put in it?
Wood and velvet, with brass fixtures and black marble art deco.

4.) One day some guy with a beard and long hair and a robe shows up at your front door and asks you if you want to buy some chocolate. Would you buy it?
No I'm on a diet and that's probably not chocolate.

5.) Are you short or tall?
I'm short on dads side and tall on my moms side.

6.) If you were a mad scientist and you invented something to conquer the world with, what would it be?
A robot army consisting mostly of mobile beer dispensing systems.

7.) if you could bring anyone back from the dead, who would it be?
Myself.

8.) Are you guilty of wearing a fanny pack in the 90's?
It was a Ninja Turtles fanny pack and it was COOL.

9.) Do you use air freshener after you poop in the bathroom or do you just shut the door and walk away pretending you didn't do it?
I spray the hell out of the bathroom at work, but at home I just clsoe the door cause my bird doesn't seem to mind.

10.) Fast-ass sports car or a big-ass monster truck?
I see myself as more of a semi-truck full of beer.

11.) Cougar or sugardaddy?
I'd rather be a sugardaddy than have a cougar in my life.


This is the part where I break rules 4 and 5 and subsequently ignore 6 and 7.

OK SO I TOTALLY JUMPED THE GUN ABOUT THE BEER BEING ALL SEDIMENTY SORRY I WAS NERVOUS ABOUT THIS BEER SINCE EVERYONE WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. THAT BEING SAID...

I think this may be the most awesome beer I have ever made.

Not a statement to be taken lightly. I really liked my Scotch Ale and my Kolsch. Last years pumpkin beer was OK, but this. This stuff. This is a real doozy.

Fun facts learned today:
1) Beer is actually about 11% ABV. The sediment threw off the hydrometer reading. Who knew.

2) Cinnamon flakes are really light. So light they float to the top when the beer foams and they INFUSE THE HEAD OF THE BEER. This make the beer smell a lot like cinnamon. The body taste is distinctively pumpkin pie still.

3) Despite the small amount of sediment in the beer, it doesn't taste bitter at all. I believe now the majority of the sediment is actually some spices that escaped the filter when I put the spice potion in. I didn't use a filer so much as a screen soooo, yeah, happy mistake.

I was able to consume lovingly the test pint, and I feel all warm and cozy all over. Cinnamon and nutmeg and alcohol reeealllllly get me into the fall/harvest season spirit. <3 <3 <3

The Keene Pumpkin Festival is the week after Furfright. this means I wil be throwing a huge ass party at my place so that we may enjoy the world-record setting event from the comfort of a short walk away from the internet and cable and a sleeping area.

I'll rattle some cages but I don't have an excessive amount of space. Last year we had 8 people and that would be perfect for this year too.

Yes, there will be beer because...

So, I pulled a sample out of the keg, to see how settled the beer was with my home-made centrifuge. Oye. Yeah, I'm glad I have an extra week to tinker with this one. The first pull usually has a ton of sediment in it cause the keg pulls off the bottom, where all the sediment collects. The issue is, the first pull isn't supposed to come out like mud. I'd not giving up on the beer yet, as I haven't pulled again since the first one, trying to let as much sediment get back into the recovery pipe so I can skim the majority of it out. I'm just not keen on it looks so far.

Meanwhile the taste test and hydrometer test went swimmingly. Perfect pumpkin pie flavor with nuttyness. Hydrometered out at 8-9% ABV.

It *should* be ready for Furfright, so don't worry yourself about it.