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Debbie the Polar Bear was put to sleep yesterday. She was the oldest polar bear on the planet at 40 years old. Debbie was born in the Russian Arctic in 1966 and orphaned. The Winnipeg zoo got her a year later and she lived a good life. Very few polar bears in the wild live to see 20 so she had a long and happy life.

I had another death last night. My desk top PC died. Good Bye old friend. With it the Columbus Weather Station came crashing to a halt. As luck would have it I had transferred many Public Enemies photos onto a thumb drive but there are a lot of photos stuck on the hard drive. I'm not sure if they are recoverable or not having never had a PC crash before.

It was on life support for the last week as little odd things were starting to happen. It was eight years old so not a shock. I have been thinking of anything I really NEED from it and there is no BIG stress, just a lot of little things in folders. Like a junk drawer that is stuck closed. I can live without the junk but . . . . . . it would be nice to get to it.
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Did you see the piece on WKOW-TV about Columbus? Steve - you're a star!!! And you guys are right - that is an Office Depot in the distance - must be a well kept secret. Plus - that is also the one Columbus street light that is THAT tall!
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I see Wikipedia has a Public Enemies page now. I added the PE photo blog as a link (tee hee).

Speaking of movies - have you seen the new Star Trek trailer? SWEET


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I remember watching the last Star Wars and man - my geek watch was going off 10 minutes into the movie. Here I am thinking "I have another hour and 50 minutes of this?" It was horrible. This one looks good.

BTW - if you are a Sci Fi fan and have not watched Serenity it is what I consider among the best "space" movies of of all time. It has won many awards but did not make back it's budget until it went to DVD so some call it a flop. Still - rent it. You won't be disappointed. Plus - it co-stars Adam Baldwin (Chuck) and I love that guy!!!


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I'm brewing up my first real IPA this weekend. I'm waiting for the train load of hops to arrive at the train depot as I hear it is two full cars of Centennial hops. Centennial has a pungent, citrus-like flavor and aroma. This particular "C" hop, (Cascade, Chinook,Columbus and Centennial), is good when you are not looking to impart quite the floral aromas that you might find in Cascade. (Sean's West Coast Blaster is like drowning in sea flowers).

On another subject, my labels. I have a new label coming out and I hope the beer that it is for does not SUCK!!! I have yet to bottle it so the flavor is still an unknown. BUT - so far I've been doing pretty good so my fingers are crossed.

I'm going to make poster size prints of my labels. Of course many of you have not tasted most of the beer that goes UNDER the labels so why would you care. One thing I have learned. If I give most of my beer away . . . I have very little to drink myself LOL!! Strange how that happens.

So I've had to readjust my beer pipeline to make certain batches more often. Flat Squirrel, Columbus Carriage Classic, Double Chocolate Stout - GONE!! Now I have to wait for those redoes to mature! In the mean time I'm stuck with green beer that is taking too long to age because of cold weather and a cold basement. (Working on that problem).

So here is the next brew to be bottled! The label is not complete and is 90% finished.

I think I can blow most of my labels up to 20x24 with good results. Collect them all!

another label example

Anyway I'll be taking photos of the beer making process when I make aduby's special order IPA for his February party.
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FIELD TRIP - I'll contact John at Columbus Water & Light and see if we can get a Field Trip to the secret government water facility for . . . . Friday December 5th about 6:30ish???

hmmmmmm anything else???

OK
Rod Out