MANN MELTDOWN - UNIVERSAL SCRAPS PUBLIC ENEMIES

I have heard from unreliable sources, random rumors and things I'm just making up that during editing of PE Michael Mann became so upset at certain actors he blew a gasket and said he was dumping the entire project.

But - lets talk about important stuff. The above will be continued below. Lets talk about ME!

My beer window is running out!! With cold weather on the way the strains of yeast I use are changing and with it the types of beer I can brew. The Columbus Carriage Classic brew is on borrowed time. Right now I'm fermenting a Cream Ale at 66 degrees. The yeast used in the CCCAle has a bottom temp of 60.

I have the perfect lagering basement except for the lack of massive amounts of refrigerators! You see to have a correct lager I would need to put a 5 gallon Carboy in a 35 degree frig for 8 weeks. Screw that - I need to DRINK that beer.

My goal with all this is to become an award winning brewer so I'm looking into entering some contests. I'll have to plan about three months ahead of time so I'm looking at late January contests.

Enough Beer talk.

I need to go to that movie "The Secret Life of Beers" sounds interesting.
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I hope everyone has voted.

Did you know that Australia has a 95% turnout for voting? Of course if they DON'T vote they get fined. Malta has a normal system and they get a 93% turnout. Mozambique has a 23% turnout. The U.S. has been moving towards 50% and are pretty apathetic for the most part (not counting this year). However the stat's are a little misleading.

The reason is that the entire voting age is surveyed and with booming immigration many of the people surveyed are unable to vote. The turnout is actually pretty steady (until today).

One thing is that voting seems to be a "habit". Once a person votes he/she tend to continue voting. With so many new voters this is a wonderful thing happening today and I feel this truly is one of the greatest days in American History just because of that.

No matter who wins and who it's the "Participation Ribbon" the fact that this contest has energized people that normally do not feel patriotic enough to vote will have ramifications for the next 100 years if not more.

Time line for tonight's Poll Closings - the important states.

6:00 CDT
Indiana and Virginia.

6:30 CDT
Ohio, North Carolina and West Virginia

7:00 CDT
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Missouri and Florida.

8:00 CDT
Minnesota, Wisconsin,New Mexico, Colorado Michigan and Arizona.

9:00
Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada and Utah.

10:00 the final real votes.

just put 77 Electoral votes in Obama pockets - those states are in the bank already.

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GOT GAS?

Sounds like we are heading towards gasoline at less then $2. Already some states are averaging $1.99 per gallon and the OPIS gas experts are saying the national average should bottom out below $2.

The markets overreacted to the upside and now they are overreacting to the downside. This is great for gas stations who had a profit margin of about 8 cents per gallon a few months ago. Their margin is now about 40 cents and they are able to pay off a lot of debt.
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Public Enemies - GOTCHA!!!

I can't believe you fell for that. You flipped by the entire blog to read about Public Enemies and you KNEW (I even told you) it was just poopy talk.

You see I had to do something to get ya all stirred up. You've become complacent. There is a fine line between comfort and boredom. This is true in many things. For instance, when was the last time you changed your living room. Not a big change but put a chair over there instead over here. We moved a small couch into the living room last weekend just to change things up.

Or take a business. Customers come in and see the same set-up all the time. Perhaps you should change things around just a tad. Give customers a slightly different view, make them look at things again. Open their eyes.

Websites are always changing . A few years ago people would change a site just for the sake of changing and that was wrong. Humans like comfort but after a while they stop looking - then is when you change a website but NOT drastically.

Bars should always be tweaking their beers on tap. Nothing major but offering new things keep people interested. If they know that MAYBE today there will be something new it keeps them coming.

Sort of like our dog when we say "Come along?" He knows he gets to go for a car ride and gets all hyper. Typically it's a boring run to the store but every once in a while it's something totally dog awesome. It keeps him coming back for more even though 90% of the time it's the same old trip.

See ya
Rod