But in all seriousness. Jackpot Records is good, as is Everyday Music but you’ve got one of those up there so whatever. Will you have a car?

One last shameless plug for my BikeMS ride coming up the first weekend in August. If you’ve given, you’re awesome. If you haven’t, you’re still awesome, but imagine how much more awesome you will be when you do! Give early, give often!

I’m hoping you’ll tell ME where to when you get back.

wah-keesh

Rimsky-Korsakoffeehouse

Powells bookstore

Papa Haydns

but Moon is playing in Seattle this week and you should see it because it is a good movie.

Get fouled.

It doesn’t look like a movie that should be good, but the reviews are glowing.

The Diamondjaxx games, or not having to ask for cole slaw on my BBQ?

Fukudome Sandwich?

Best Buy is packaging Metal Gear Solid 4 and Killzone 2 with the system. I’m playing Killzone 2 right now and it’s mighty fun.

I’d say an actual price drop might be coming, but people have been saying that for years.

because "a guy like Morrow comes in and whines and complains when a Washburn says “if I’d only thrown one more pitch”"

ah, nothing like hearing from The Fan.

But when I go to Portland and intend on eating there, I have to stop at the Rheinlander. Their food and beer pairings are most excellent…

here and here

What bands do you never remember to listen to, but then when it comes up on your ipod or when flipping through your collection make you go “Man, this band is fantastic, I should listen to them more than I do!”?

At least for bicyclists.

Sorry if this had been mentioned but I didn’t see anything about it, Tampa Bay Lightning are playing a pre-season game at the Comcast Arena in Everett this September. Link

I was just thinking about going to the game tomorrow until I was reminded of this horrid promotion. How could they let this fall on a Felix Day?!?!?

Sorry, AC – you’re out of luck…

Belmont Station has a mean beer selection. Burnside skate park is worth it if you’ve never been. Visited many a drunken friend there and even a few that skated. No Fish Go Fish has some yummy food and for the vegan/gluten free, there’s Vita Cafe. They make a solid vegan fish and chips. Nicholas is a hole in the wall Mediterranean restaurant that’s good, but a little overhyped in that hole the wall no one knows about that everyone actually knows about kind of way. I’ve had better falafel. My wife’s made better falafel. Ground Kontrol is a retro arcade that also does shows. Cinema 21 is a must if there’s a good movie showing. Fox Tower has a good selection for a regal. Powell’s of course. Forest Park is beautiful. The Crystal is the best all around venue, but it houses mostly larger underground bands and can be impersonal. Fuck the balcony crowd. Voodoo doughnut of course. Had a few drunken stumbles through there. CD Game Exchange has cheap, good stuff all around. Avalon is a cool retro clothing/antique store, but I’m not sure where that is located anymore or if it’s even still in business. Magpie is essentially the same thing and the owner is good people. THE CHURCH OF ELVIS! Um, Saturday Market kind of blows, but it appeals to tourists in a Pikeplace Market sort of way. I’m trying to think of some good dive bars, but I’ve been out of the bar scene a while…Darc—eh, that’s probably no good.

was watching second-run movies with a Hammerhead and a Communication Breakdown burger at the Mission with friends. Easily walkable from the Pearl! Kennedy School was also a lot of fun. If McMenimans had better ales, they would be the greatest civic institution.

I did another root beer. Un-hopped again. The wort was a beauty, but I think I held back too much on the flavors and may need to add flavor when I rack it to the secondary. I’m making it for my dad, who is allergic to hops, or I’d hopped it, probably targeting 10-20 IBU depending on the gravity, because I don’t want to detract from the root beer. It has roasted dandelion root, ginger, and spruce added to it to add some bitter spiciness, but I held way back for fear of over gingering another beer. I’ll probably add more to a boil of and add it to the secondary, along with more Root beer extract, which I used instead of bulk ingredients due to the price of the last root beer I made.

Anyway, the ingredients were:

• 7 lbs 2-Row Pale Malt
• 1 lbs 2-Row Pale Malt toasted at 325 for 10 minutes
• 10 oz Caramunich 40L
• 8 oz Honey Malt
• 8 oz dark crystal malt made by soaking pale malt and baking it in water for 350 degrees for 1 hour.
• 2 oz Special B Malt
• 1 oz Roasted Barley
• 6 oz Organic Blackstrap Molasses
• 1 Bottle Rainbow Extracts Old Fashioned Root Beer Extract
• 1/8 oz Roasted Dandelion Root
• 1/8 oz Ginger
• 1 2-inch twig Spruce
• Light Sprinkle of ground cloves
• 1 Pack of Wyeast 1056 American Ale Yeast

5 Gallon batch, plan to transfering to the secondary in a week or so.

Did a 1 hour rest at 157, mashed out at 168, Sparged at 170, pitched at 85.

I’m pretty sure most of the fermentation is done already, and I did it Sunday night, but I haven’t taken a final gravity reading yet. The original gravity was 1.042, so it’ll be a 4+ ABV beer.

I sampled and what was a fairly sweet wort tasted, but now tastes done. I plan on priming with honey and bottling soon. I’m going to boil the honey and figure out when I have 14 total points of Gravity from the honey.

I just got a garbage can (unused of course) that I’m going to turn into a fermentation cooler. I’m planing on wrapping it with Reflectix insulation and cutting a spot to put a thermo-electric plate on top. I’d hook it up to a garden thermostat. It will have been a $100 cooler when I’m done, but it’ll work sweet for a fermenter to sit in. I can flip the peltier around in the winter and warm it up!

best burgers in Portland. That’s a bit far away from you, though.

Take a trip on the aerial tram just for shits and giggles. Then realize that we spent about $80 million on that POS yet people bitch and moan about spending $30 million to get an MLS team.

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