Last week I went kiteboarding four days in a row, and I can now state with absolute confidence that I am a kiteboarder. I did make a second attempt at windsurfing, but after following that weak-sauce swim lesson with the best kiteboarding session of my life, my mind is now pretty much made up. While […]
Author Archives: Dane
Crowd Control
May 27, 2007 – 8:50 pm
I finally got out windsurfing the other day, though to actually call my actions windsurfing would be quite generous. More than anything it was swimming with gear, a new watersport that I am pioneering that draws on my skills at both kiteboarding and windsurfing. I am the ultimate crossover. I do both sports to equal […]
Fire Season
May 20, 2007 – 9:54 pm
The Ham Lake Fire is now 100% contained on the American side. It’s still got some elbow room on the Canadian side, but it has mellowed out considerably over the last few days. Today it even snowed up at camp, and so we all breathe a collective sigh of relief as we realize it won’t […]
Forty-Six
May 18, 2007 – 10:07 pm
I feel like I rushed the production of this martini, and its quality has suffered noticeably as a result. It seems to be doing its job regardless. This afternoon, while the guy from Charter was busy fixing my internet connection, I started bottling my beer. The final numbers are in, and damn am I ever […]
Hooray for Midweek Weekends
May 17, 2007 – 8:58 pm
My beer’s fermentation has pretty much completely mellowed out, so a couple days ago I transferred it from the plastic fermenter to the glass carboy. I did a fairly decent job at my first siphoning attempt, though I did lose suction a couple times throughout the process. Sometimes foam would travel up the tube from […]
Locality
May 13, 2007 – 10:04 pm
My beer’s fermentation was slow to start on its first day, but now that the yeast has had a bit of time to get its bearings things are cookin’ right along. My closet currently smells like a blue ribbon at an Appalachia science fair. For future reference I know not to pitch my yeast too […]
Hobby Farm
May 10, 2007 – 10:09 pm
Tonight my house smells like a brewery, as I just finished my first attempt at crafting my own beer. It’s going well so far, and while I didn’t commit any large-scale disasters in cooking up my wort, I am a bit concerned that the fermentation isn’t kicking in yet. At 90 degrees, I may have […]
Lacking even the sophistication of a Twitter update.
April 10, 2007 – 9:27 pm
Ironically, I find myself spending so much time with the internet lately that I have no time for the internet.
This post is about neither Austin nor Zion.
March 27, 2007 – 9:19 pm
Even though I haven’t yet taken the time to write about either of them. I am done with my travels, and have managed to emerge mostly unscathed from both the brutal canyons of downtown Austin, and the dusty scratchy landscape of the Utah desert. I’ve been fighting down the plague for the last couple days, […]
Transition
March 15, 2007 – 9:02 pm
Yesterday I got back from SXSW. It was an incredible time. My liver still aches. My last night in Austin I got a single hour of sleep. Tomorrow Kate and I leave for Zion.
