Scattered Thoughts

I'm behind on blog posts, but I'm not concerned. I should have made at least nine posts to both this and my Photoblog since the new year. I've been struggling for inspiration as to what to write, but I think I now have a pretty good idea. In the next couple of days, I'll be doing some work on the information structure of the site to see how things go. Can you really resurrect a blog that's been dead/dying for a while? We're about to see.

My plan is this: I'm going to write about what's going on in my life. I'm going to be adding a few categories, writing about my brewing, gaming, reading, climbing, and scouting stuff. I think I can turn this space into something that I can actually relate to and something that fits with me and my own Ruminating Thoughts.

That's all for now.
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A new year, new beginnings, new experiences, new challenges, new everything!

I geek out on apocalyptical theories and this week is making me like a kid in a candy store — it's Armageddon Week on the History Channel! Every night, there's a new show about the end times, focused on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012.

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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.
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I read quite a few of these over the last few weeks and thought I would give it a shot myself. Filling this out was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be, which is why I wanted to share with the world. Possibly the most difficult part of this whole exercise was tagging 25 friends and only 25 as well as including those who tagged me.
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