I am so friggin frustrated. I spent the entire evening trying to get my 28X PICAXE chip to talk to a DS1307 real time clock chip using the I2C protocol. It has been over 3 hours, and I am no closer to getting this thing to work. I have ripped everything out except the pieces [...]

I had a brutal business trip this week - Wednesday thru Friday in Houston. I got in this morning at 2am after fighting flight delays, thunderstorms, broken terminal gates, and several other travel fiascos. The experience did little to change my attitude towards business travel (that being I strongly dislike it), and I am completely exhausted today with [...]

Nothing inspires me to new heights of profanity and violence like the task of delabeling bottles. I loathe it - and were it not a necessary (albiet evil) part of the homebrewing process… *sigh*. So that was today - I cleaned and delabeled 6+ cases of bottles, primarily belgian-style 750mL ones. Most of them came [...]

My miniscule Freshops order came today. I’m not quite sure which aspect is more insane:

The alpha acids on my WHOLE LEAF Summit hops are 16.5%
I only ordered 2.5 pounds this year, compared to 8+ last year
It cost me $75 to order 2.5 lbs, which is about as much as I spent last year.

This is probably [...]

…Or as we refer to it in the US, Murphy’s Law, was definitely in effect for my trip to Fayetteville. I won’t recount the whole experience, but needless to say I will never fly through Charlotte again if I can help it, particularly on US(eless)Air. I put some highlights of the business trip debacle at [...]