Coffee or Tea

Photorealism (Super-Realism, Hyper-Realism) / Claudio Bravo/ Circe

Life is changing.  Trying to get a grip on things and as I am a Federal Employee, this process will end up in failure.  I think that I have a chance of hanging onto things until my planned exit. 

Beer is a bubbling in a carboy in the sink.  Going pretty good now, I seriously underpitched the yeast this time, because I seriously overpitched the yeast last time.  Bubbles didn't get traction until >40 hours after pitching.  This might work out well.  I am thinking that I will be able to get three batches out of a yeast packet (I tend to use Fermentis stuff).  Right now I don't have enough discipline in the process to go with re-passaging yeast.  I have to get on this, as when I retire, I will need to have the process down well enough.

I think that a batch of cider comes next.  Apple juice only.  Concentrates from Cash and Carry to be hopped with Citra hops (lightly, maybe a quarter ounce for three gallons) I will use five of the one quart concentrate in a three gallon batch with some blackberries for color.  Half hour boil.

Screed:

I doubt sincerely that fuckwad is smart enough to have thought of this himself, but jeez Louise, maybe the guy can pull a rabbit out of the hat on this one after all. 

I have always been a bit suspicious of the Suliemani "Hit".  It seems a bit to clean, offers too many people a means of doing unpopular things. 

• I think that it offers the Mullahs in Iran a way of getting rid of a "Man on a White Horse" that was getting a touch too popular.  For Christsakes, the guy was in lists as a mover and shaker in the Western press.  Handsome, good looking guy who got shit done and had been making noises about going into politics.  
• I think that it offers a way/reason for Iraq to boot the US out of the country.  We paid dearly under Obama for a SOFA agreement that is just a long term cost with no return.
• I think that it offers the current administration a good reason to leave.  It could well be the beginning of a new Project Phoenix redux.  You remember that don't you?  We had lost, so we spook-hit all the people we could while we were leaving.  For you old geezers "Knock Knock Motherfuckers".

Now, I am fairly certain that Israel will be pissed off should we choose not to fight their war for them, but they have been such shitheads of late that we shouldn't really pay any attention to that.  And from what I can see, Saudi Arabia looks to be getting some serious traction on the oil depletion thing, so I am not all that certain we should pay any attention to the head choppers. 

Nope, I don't think for a minute that this is a 5D chess thing.  I am not at all certain that fuckwad can fully understand 2D chess.  But maybe, just maybe he can accidentally use the pretense to get out of a bad deal. 

The Iraqi Parliament has voted to make us leave.  Right now everyone's tits are in a pretty big twist.