There's a Hiatus Pun Here Somewhere...

After putting away my brewkettle for several months, I've finally gotten back to homebrewing this year.  Three batches in less than three weeks have gone all but perfectly, and target gravities have been within 2% (that's really good).

So yay.

Also: expect there to be a lot of beer that needs drinking soon.

Cherry Dubbel

Made with ten pounds of two types of cherries and aged for a year.

Yum.

 - E

:-)

I am writing this to you from my brand new CR-48.

If you know what I mean: cool.

 - E

Teaching Software Engineering in College, Problem #534

At my college, a semester was 13 weeks.  At most, a class met five days a week - usually less - for an hour or so.  That means that a college semester has around 65 hours of class time.

In software development, a typical sprint is between two and four weeks - let's split the difference and go with three.  Each work week has forty hours.  That gives us 120 hours per sprint.

In other words, a college semester is equivalent to just over half a sprint.

Think about that.

It's OK, I Have the Right Glasses (Part II)

I've been brewing for almost two years now.  One of the styles that eluded me for so long was the Saison, a spicy farmhouse ale from France and Belgium.

With my most recent batch, I declare this nemesis defeated.

It's OK, I Have the Right Glasses

Tonight's a cognac night.  Does that make sense to anyone but me?

 - E

Understatement

It's been a really long year.

For that matter, I can barely believe that it's been just over a month.

At any rate, long week ahead.  Need to do laundry, take a run and prepare for a funeral.

Update:  I came within a hair's breadth of my first seven minute mile.  Everyone jump to the thirteen second mark with me...