Life Begins at 60 – 1.060 That Is
Well, I've done it again, it's been far too long since I've updated. Lately, I've been busy with work stuff, not wanting to write when I get home, and have generally had nothing too interesting to write about (too interesting to me, anyway). If you've been following me @tlmasonaea or on Facebook you've been staying up-to-date with my life. If you're not following me, why not?
So, why the strange title to the post? I'm going to be talking about beer, specifically my beer. Even more specifically, my Red, White and Blue ales. If you're not a beer geek, the number 1.060 means nothing to you. It's a measurement of what's called Starting Gravity or Original Gravity for a beer. OG is a measurement of how much more dense than water a specific beer is, water being 1.000. I (along with other brewers) typically don't use the dot in the notation, but whatever.
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Last night, I rekindled my eternal hatred for the Windows operating system and Dell hardware. Now, I know I have a Dell, and I know that Dell machines run Windows, but here's the thing: the Dell I currently own is a temporary fix for a lack of computing power in my home machine. The machine itself ran me around $1,000, it's tiny, it can be easily converted to a DVR when I upgrade past it, it's a little underpowered in the graphics processing arena, but for now, it works for the most part.
