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The Green Bay Packers lost their first game in what otherwise looked like a perfect season.  Against the Kansas City Chiefs no less.  Shocking.

The last of my country's soldiers have left Iraq, ending two wars that I have practically grown up with.  The United States fighting in Iraq has been as about as normal for my life as have no-reason-boners. 

Kim Jong Il, possibly one of the modern world's most evil men died last night, cocking all sorts of eyebrowidge around the world for what happens next to that alien-like nation that we call North Korea.

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Mmmm Beer

My good pal Brooks and I just bought our home brewing kit from www.northernbrewer.com, hopefully the supplies will have arrived by the time I get back home to Texas for the holidays.

I'm super psyched about this for several reasons:

1) Brooks, Tim, and I have been looking for some sort of off-the-path business venture to get into now that we have all been smacked by the reality that we probably can't fulfill our dreams of being vigilantes, pirates, and professional board-game players.

2) Playing alchemist is a good way for us to learn a craft.  Beer brewing has been around for at least 10,000 years, and evidence of its making is evidenced in nearly every corner of the world.  Man has a passion for beer, and so do we.  Why not learn this solely for the purpose of going in on a hobby?

3) We are aware that we have to be creative and come up with a process and recipe for something that no one else does.  Developing something unique is an idea worth writing home about and something to be proud of.  We know it may be hard to replicate a beer after we have made it through trial and error, but life is often about learning and progressing deductively.

4) It will be fun!  With either success or failure for each batch, we will yield beer that shall be drank...please tell me the problem with that!

The issue now, is once we have our kits, what beer should we make?  We are of course eager to make anything, just because we can, but our other selves will be biting at us to be cautious and calculating so we can find our niche.  We need to come up with a consensus for a style and process that we can feel good about, and feel confident that other people will enjoy. 

Nevertheless, the first step has been made, cheers!

Uhh Whiskey...

Though I'm not used to much merry-making these days in The District, my office recently "inherited" a stock of left over spirits from an event last night.  One was a bottle of single malt whiskey, which comes from the Laphroaig distillery located on a British Isle called Islay, just north of Ireland and southwest of Scotland.

From: http://www.laphroaig.com/whiskies/

I've never been a huge whiskey guy, I know, shame on me, but then again it isn't like I have EVER turned down a shot or glass of it either.  I just prefer other spirits.  I'm not apologizing to you.

This 10 year old scotch comes from a pretty rich history you can read all about here if you are interested, but the reason I am writing about this is because of the pure serendipity of how I have come to be enjoying a glass right now.  And don't worry I'm not spoiling this with a Coke, drinking game, or a bias against the wretched Tudor and Windsor houses of England. 

Besides, I'm convinced that the Laphroaig 10 Year Single Malt Scotch deserves no less than to be sipped gingerly.  The whole event has to be handled like that first time with a girl you really like.  You can't screw it up, and you are working feverishly to put forth a good impression, and at least masking that you are actually caring about her boundaries and alluding to the idea that you are in it for what she likes.  

But unlike a girl...well maybe...this beverage has a peaty flavour to it.  It's definitely rich and has a good smooth bite to it that one would hope for.  Okay, maybe like a girl.  But I recommend this, and though I don't have a super selection of whiskeys that I have had to reference with, I'd still give this spirit a strong 7 out of 10 on taste.