I have a little black book in my undy drawer.

It is a travel diary, when I take it traveling and it is a shed/home-brew diary, when I stay home. Here is a brief summary of the shed entries [amended] :

Monday 28th December 2009

Putting a brew on

• Morgans Blue Mountain Lager + yeast
• Dextrose/Corn Syrup/dried malt
• Morgans finishing hops (Hersbucker)

Good flavour, especially after I had left it for the full month! Hops were maybe a little harsh, try adding some lactose next time to sweeten it.

Previous brew from July 2009

• Black Rock Miners Stout

Came out OK flavour not always quite right probably from brewing temp being too high or perhaps not rinsing off all the meta-bisulphate also a little too much sugar at bottling so too fizzy.

Brigalow Ginger Beer

• tastes shit, explodes well.

Saturday 30th January 2010

• Building rudder

ran out of Norseal Epoxy Wood Preserver 50:50 500ml

Wednesday 10th March

Putting two brews on

• Bishops English Bitter [Morgans] – made in Queensland :)
• Smelt good, hoppy.
• Brewcraft English Bitter [Muntons of Stowcraft] – made in UK
• Lager Brew, Dextrose/Malt mix

Not sure if Cheri will approve of the barrels of beer in the front room for the next couple of weeks, fingers crossed that they don't ferment too excitedly – could get messy.

Ocean swim tomorrow. Feeling meh. I blame daylight saving. For everything.

In fact I am going to happily set my clock back an hour on the first Sunday this April and never change it again. I will damn well be early for any organisation that decides to muck about with their clocks.

http://www.librarything.com/work/1173358

http://www.amazon.com/Burgesss-Mini-Atlas-Marine-Aquarium-Fishes/dp/0793...

My crazy brother Dan has sent me this again:

Are your trying to tell me something Dan?

Yay, just discovered a bunch of ozzie bike sites I'd missed before. I'm such a saddo bicycle nerd sometimes.

Here is some real bike racing...

Bikey linkies...
http://www.bicyclestore.com.au/
http://www.cheekytransport.com.au
http://bikelove.wordpress.com/
http://austbma.ning.com/
http://www.boutiquecycles.com/
oh... and all these ones:
http://del.icio.us/tregeagle/bicycling

My Ma is flying into Oz today, I'm picking her up from the airport after work. So to celebrate BoingBoing has supplied me with this great dance vid:

In other news, we bought a Heron sailing dinghy, It came without a trailer so if anyone knows of a boat trailer going spare please let me know.

I found out a few days ago that Daew (one of the boys Evan and I trained with at Lanna Muay Thai Gym) has died.

Young Daew was what I can only call a 'Cool Fighter'. His kick was pure poetry in motion it whipped out like the strike of a beautiful snake. He was a nice looking kid of 17 with wide eyes and an open friendly face. I remember him getting me to change my fighting stance from that which the instructors had taught me. He pulled my hands fore and aft and kicked my feet back a bit, outwards, I asked him why. He looked at me, smiled and said, "You want to look Good."

Daew was a lovely kid and I will not forget him.

Yesterday Ev and I borrowed a little Hobie Cat Wave and sailed around Koh Tao. We came home with sunburnt knees and broadened horizons. I am looking forward to returning to sailing with the Coffs Junior Dinghy Sailing Club maybe also the Twilight series. I'd point you to their website [http://www.coffsyachtie.com.au/] but it has been down for the past month. Maybe I should offer to fix/rebuild it for them. Then at least I'd know what they are up to.