Author: Peter Jones

All Naked City
Pale Rider 5% – mellow summer beer. It’s not summer, but ya know.

Crossfire IPA 6.5% – little musty. But good.

The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of 6.0% – better than the pale rider. Otherwise it’s just another page in my book.

S.M.A.S.H. 4.8% – I’d rather drink a PBR.

Smoking Gun 5.8% – Smoking awesome more like it. I want BBQ. I mean this thing needs to have good paired with it, rather than the other way around.

Goodnight Irene 6.0% – smooth and chocolatey, but not the chocolate overwhelming everything like it usually does.

Gotta bottle beer
Gotta build table
Gotta build shelves
Gotta desolder stuff
Gotta know when to hold em
Gotta be fresh for the fight
Gotta level an MP, woot AO’s updates are great
Gotta start my painting series
Gotta be cool
Gotta get new kicks
Gotta build planters
If I get anything done, that’s be awesome

All from Westland Distillery, all straight because water is for pussies
Flagship Single Malt – has a bit of the medicine burn and opened my sinuses right up. Aftertaste goes slightly sour eventually but with a huge delay.
Sherry Wood – super smooth, makes me think brown sugar
Peated – smooth. Like steal your pants and you don’t even care smooth.
Rotating single cask – A little burn. A little sour. All whiskey.

And I see Divinity: Original Sin is on sale and immediately get pumped. A few months ago it was on sale, but I didn’t feel out was prudent to spend more money on games right that second, so I put it off. In fact, I put it off to today. Basically, as a means of controlling spending, if I want to delay a purchase, I set a complex trigger. In this case the next time (specific game) was at most (this price, often just “on sale”) through this establishment (humble for charity, gog for no drm, steam if I don’t care). This trigger was met today, which means I just buy it. No stress.
Now, here’s the thing. I’m stopped because I set a decision half a dozen months ago, and I’m going to follow through. For personal projects, I’ve tried the reward method before, but someone (including myself) dangles a carrot, I kick the carrot. I wonder if I could make triggers for the things I should do.

Double Mountain IRA – Good. Real good. Hints of sour cherry. Nice head.

Today. Today I’m going to work on my projects. Today.

I think I need to make a cork board list our something. Have quiet projects, and loud projects. This might help me figure out the next thing to work on during night hours. Of course, first I need to make room. That should be my priority tonight.

Tonight. One shelf goes up. I’m on this.

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While number two from previously sounded pretty cool, I’m not sure if it’s feasible. If I move the silkscreen itself, the silk will be stretching throughout the process…

Ooh! The silk screen is on rails, with the squeegee static. The rails are driven by the rotation of the bottle. It doesn’t account for different bottle diameters though. Right. I’d need multiple gears or another way to physically link the bottle rotation with the screen. Do it on a swing arm, like a bike derailleur?

Finish palette first’s teardown. Clean brew supply, including the soaking bottles. Really, I need to finish the bottles just to have enough room for cleaning the other brew supplies.
Then, as I probably won’t have a lot more undeclared time, I need to do my ink transfer test. I got my paint, and I’m definitely getting happy that it’s at a reasonable consistency, but the more I think about it, the more I think it won’t transfer from a nice rubber roller to a glass bottle. That doesn’t mean I have to give up of course.
It does mean I’ll have to completely reconsider the design. I’m thinking as backup options, one of two ideas.
1) Silkscreen with powered rails. Put the bottle in a carrier, hit start and it moves bottle before and squeegee above in sync.
2) Silkscreen with a flexible frame that wraps around the bottle and then rotates through the range, to push against the squeegee.