OMFG! I am so freaking excited!!!! So we got our tax return and decided we would use half to pay down a credit card I have from when I was in nursing school, and the other half we would split and use as we pleased. Erich's choice was a no-brainer: he's been drooling over the new boxxer since before it came out but he had no dh bike to put it on, well, now he has a pretty sweet Turner that needed some front-end love, so the boxxer should be here today. (I fully support the dialing-in of this bike as it totally fits me and when Erich buys a new Turner in a year or two, I will be assuming ownership of the Turner.:)
My choice however has taken a twistier path. I'm turning 30 in two months, eep. I want to get a 3/4 sleeve on my Left arm as I have been saving it for something fantastically special. Well, I've decided what that entails and am aching to get tattooed again, so that seemed the logical choice for the spending of my money, plus, support the local economy and a good friend of mine. Oh, that would be Kip Delaney owner of Victory Tattoo in Chico, CA. (I trust him with the one and only canvas God has given me in this life and he's never let me down) Ok, so tattoo it is.
Then I happened to be perusing Craigslist. We are, I should say Erich and the FIL are re-building our back deck and some guy had listed a whole bundle of redwood so I was checking it out. (I love bargains) And lo and behold, there it was. Posted mere minutes before I saw it, "Homebrew Equipment $750". The list of equipment was exhaustive and before I knew it, my fingers were flying across the keyboard emailing with questions about his setup. I received a response within hours and was even more stoked as I read his knowledgeable and in-depth answers to my queries. This guy knew what he was doing and had a fantastic set-up that had been cared for with love. I made arrangements to meet with him yesterday, yeah so the stupor bowl was on but who freaking cares? I'M GONNA BREW BEER! We drove up to Mount Shasta and can I just say my face almost split in half from the smile that was plastered on it as I stared into his garage at the gigantic spread of equipment. We loaded the truck and it was completely full, and that was no small feat let me tell you. He even gave me his recipes and a ton of adjunct barley and hops that he had not used. Sweet Jesus, I've died and gone to heaven.
And to top it all off, my dad sprung on me last time he was here that he had procured his own brewing equipment from someone he knows, he wouldn't tell me what he got or anything! So now, it's on like donkey kong. The gauntlet has been thrown. MWAHAHAHAHA, I will emerge victorious! Plus, I took that new job so I'll be working 3 twelves a week, that's right people, four days off! And if I work a few shifts at my old job per diem, that's all the extra flow I'll need to support my new endeavor. Oh, snap. Watch out, it has begun.:)
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