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• Boiled 6 pounds of malt for an extra 50 minutes
• Missed two ounces of hops
• Didn’t steep the grains right – at all
• Lost the cap of my airlock in the fermenter (yeah, that happened)

The fourth, the fifth? No matter. It’s definitely the first boil over I’ve had.standing a foot away, reading a book, checking every couple pages, which for me is a pretty short interval. It’s stagnant, four ices from the top. It’s over the wall of the pot. Now I understand.

I just added all 12 pounds of make extract when I was only supposed to add 6. Off to an outstanding brew day.

I’m thinking when I such to grain and electric, that I might try making a huge teaball for my grains. Just thinking.

As part my “clean the Den of Inequity” program, I had an epiphany. Rather than move stuff around, I should just finish things. So I’m brewing beer. The title beer of this article to be exact.

Add is my prerogative, I began reading the instructions after the process had begun. In this case, I didn’t read that I was supposed to pour the specialty grains in before heating the water. So I’m supposed to be steeping the specialty grains until the water hits 170 or 20 minutes passes, whichever comes first. Instead I put the grains in at 150, got the temperature to nestle right around 161 and am going the full 20. Let’s see what else I can screw up. I did already start hydrating the yeast, so I’m on track for amazing.

I decided to turn them back on for now. I’m not sure why.

I’m thinking of how this will be built,  along with what features it will have. (Think a wall mounted set off shelves with seems watering and plant lights in a vertical space for optimal crop density) (in the less than ideal space I’m working with).

The initial idea is either a wall mount or something going over the window. The wall is nice because any wall. The window is nice because window covering, insulation and free light. I’m assuming at the end of the day out will be the wall.at least for the first iteration. I fairly much have carte blanch in the Den of Inequity, so this might be where I start. Originally I was thinking having a water reservoir at the top and use solenoid valves to water, but now in thinking. If there’s any issue water goes downhill, water is heavy as [.. .] and off have to pour water at a height greater than the highest planter. I do have a bilge pump.

I’ll start doing some sketches over the next few days.

I ran the solver from 250k to 375k. Still no solution. To cover my tracks, I also did a 1x1x1 cube. It was solved almost immediately. Tomorrow I’ll try another test box. I’m assuming a 3x4x2 would give a good solution.

Also, why can’t people have real numbers on the load bearing capabilities of 3/4 pvc? I’ll probably make my plant wall with it anyway, but it would be nice to know how much weight it could take. I think I’ll get my pieces, and then start putting fixed lengths under load and measuring the deflection.

Shipper Mark 2 died somewhere near 250k seeds. So that might be a bust. Or it could be me doing this on a RPi3 with 3+ browser tabs open. Whichever.

The browser tabs is because the other dilemma. The Wif’s Subaru needs emissions and it just had the check engine light come on. Check engine being instant fail. So we spend a couple hundred getting a tuneup+, probably fail emissions for something stupid like an 02 sensor, the shop charges $500 to figure that out and we get a pass for another two years. Or I start using the ODBII port. Probably have to change some spark plugs. I get a new tool, and we save a bunch on a mechanic. Winning.

I got most of the code working last night. At some point I had an issue that was making me angry. I scrapped most everything and began making mark 2. This will be faster and cleaner. As long as I’m starting over, and I have no idea why I decided that was a good idea, I decided I’d be going object oriented as well. That’s always been a sticking point with me. The idea of objects having functions built into the object itself is just kinda weird. Than again, as a strict amateur, I began with using goto statements in basic, so I guess anything is weird.

Whatever, so far it’s a lot cleaner now. Half that cleanliness is due to my already having written half the functions already, and I’m just remaking them using multi-dimensional arrays and stuff. It mostly works, but I need to add a manual increment, as right now, it freaks the hell out. I’m assuming it’s just burning through seeds until it appears dead. I don’t know what seed it was on though, so that doesn’t work too well. That’s why I need to implement an any key. Or I could just make a test and add a delay(). At least that’s what I did. I’m seeing if it works right now. I’m over 7,000 permutations as I type. I’m guessing before we overload the definition of an Int I should check if we made it.

This solver is based on a random seed driving the pieces. 11k. It’s going fast, but I don’t really know if it’s going right. I should try building a box that’s 1x1x1, which would tell me if it could find the good copies. At some point. I’m now at 15k, Is this going to solve my challenge? Either way it’s good practice, but not necessarily great practice. 24k. Hmmm. The funny thing is I still don’t have a way to see the final solution, this is just to find a solution. 28k.

So I kept missing this push drill I used to have. I wish I still haid it, as it was totally manual which meant it was silent. The thing was quiet, and fast, and small, and ya know, dope.

Well this isn’t getting bought today…

Turns out they’re called Yankee Drills, in case anyone wondered.