SWTFYW Hints and Hauls!!!

1.) I put mine in the dishwasher and they appear to be fine after. Maybe it is the dishwasher soap? We use those little squares w/the blue and green gunk.

2.) As one of the few CA representatives here, thought I'd chime in. Too far from me, wish I had steady access (as does @CTJman haha).

 

Along the same lines as @MSEGUIN, here's a good military story I like to tell from time to time. It's actually true too.

When we got back from our second deployment, most everyone went on leave with a few staying back at the barracks. Two buddies of mine happened to stay back, one a Marine the other a Navy Corpsman. The corpsman was a new guy (boot) or he didn't know the Camp Lejeune area well. The Marine took him out in town to a place called Cheezburgers (a topless burger joint) and the got tore up. Late that night, they decided to call a taxi to get back on base since they were both wasted. The taxi said he'd pick them up in front of a place called Grunts (a convenience store with a secret door that has a back room full of adult toys.

While waiting outside the store, the Marine asks the Corpsman if he had every been in the store. The Corpsman says no so the Marine brings him inside. Being as drunk as he was, the Corpsman walked into the back room and it was as if he had walked into a room of nekkid virgins. The light shone upon him, glorious music played from the skies. He went absolutely nuts. After about 10 minutes of going nuts, the Corpsman walks up the cash register with about $300 worth of stuff. The Marine laughed his ass off and told him to put the shit back because he'd regret it the next morning. So he puts everything back except three items. The taxi arrives shortly thereafter and they go back to the barracks.

They get back to the barracks and the Marine goes back to his room and the Corpsman stumbles back to his room. When the Corpsman enters his room, he saw his roommate was sleeping. However, he remembered that the Marines next door had gone on leave. The barracks rooms were set up like college dorms so every two rooms shared a bathroom. So, he walks past his sleeping roommate, heads into the bathroom and then goes into the empty room next door.

In the meantime, his sleeping roommate wakes up because he notices the Corpsman hasn't come out of the bathroom in a while. After about 15 minutes of waiting he gets worried, gets out of bed and heads into the bathroom. The Corpsman wasn't there but he heard noises coming from next door. So, he opens up the other door and sees the back of the Corpsman sitting in a chair watching a **** on the vacationing Marines computer. He also sees both hands going up and down.

In disgusted shock, he yells out "Doc, what the fuck are you doing?!?!"

The Corpsman swivels the chair around and faces his roommate. There he was, pants down around his ankles with a huge pocket ***** in his hands (this thing was a life size vagina and ass), going to town on it. On top of that, he had a pair of electric nipple clamps biting down on his chest.

The Marine calls him a sick fuck and tells him to get his drunk ass to bed. Needless to say, we never let him forget it the rest of the time he was stationed with us.

 

Soap isn't absolutely necessary, unless it's absolutely necessary. My wife puts on lip gloss like an Irishman in the desert puts on sunblock. I can't get that shit off of glassware unless I use dish soap. I just find a light application of soap helps remove all skin oils (lip gloss included) much easier. Nothing more annoying than going to grab a clean glass and seeing fingerprint smudges and lip marks on it.

 

Sunday p*rn time.

@sandman3479 called it "quality over quantity". That works for me - I'm starting to fall behind on my beer consumption, although for the record, the box was 26 lb, not exactly something an Oompa-Loompa can haul it. Word up on the quality, though. Holy shit.

Box was opened with my 13 year old, Zach, who knows more about beer than most adults.



From L to R:
-NEBCO Attempted Redrum: Want!

-Alchemist Heady Topper: Never heard of it, sounds awesome. Haha. Eterna-wantI just traded for and consumed 8 cans of Heady. Exerpted from my conversation with Zach: Zach: "Oh, not more Heady. Aren't you sick of Heady?" Mike: "My God, you're even stupider than I thought. Mom and I will have to put more educational toys in your kennel. Apparently the Kong is not enough".

-Jack's Abby Barrel Aged Framinghammer: Want! Yet to have a bad JA beer.

-Bryghrnfrufersoirdottirwybgumitfurris Black Nitro Ale: Very into black ales right now. First danish beer.

-Hoppin Frog Barrel Aged Naked Evil: Want! Love the frog

-Cigar City Illuminating the Path: Undocumented Want. Got to sample this at CW's anniversary party thanks to a generous neckbeard. Great stuff.

-Victory Dark Intrigue: Not familiar with, hell, haven't had Victory beer in 3 years. But it's beer + bourbon. Retroactive want.

-Hill Farmstead Fear and Trembling: Wha? Want! My daughter begins school at U of Vermont in 2 months. I wanted her to pick the right school of course, but when she chose UVM my inner beer geek did a massive fist pump. Looking forward to the trips to Hill Farmstead. Oh, and periodically visiting my daughter, Madeline or whatever her name is.

-HF Daybreak: Fuck yeah! More HF!

Lawson's Finest Liquids Sticky: More Vermont beer. And honestly, I'd given up on chasing Lawson stuff - I heard it is only available at Phish concerts or something. Grateful for this one.

NEBCO Weiss Trash Culture: Want! One of my top wants right now. Very much in a Berliner Weiss state of mind. Zach: "Ha! Dad, you only are excited about this beer because you look like the guy on the can". Me: "Hey, I'm not the one that's gonna run off with the can and masturbate to the picture of the woman on the can. But you might as well - she's totally out of your league."

Also several kickin coasters. Spot on swag - I like coasters better than glasses. They don't require cleaning.

Thanks so much, Dino! Great box. Already drank one of the Weiss Trash Culture's (the other one may have vanished into Zach's room). The rest of this haul may take a beating at a tasting tonight.

 

Ditto. Held off to grab some seasonals + didn't properly read FedEx's memorial day hours = dipshit + fairly sizable delay. Sorry target. I hope the nearly 4 gallons of beer you receive (I think gallon is the most impressive term of measurement for both beer and spoodge) make it worth the wait.

 

No one could whine about that!

 

Mother of god. Someone shotgun some beer before I do it again. Just tried a Snorkle of MBC Lunch. Hahaha it like living college days after the fact and with way better beer. Cheers from the sand and the sun in OBX. #hoist2heroesandallthebitchesinthethread

 

I just hand-wash my glassware. I've had dishwashers ruin glassware previously by washing the paint off of them alongside any dirt, and have resigned myself to hand-washing. This is a pain for some glassware where my hands won't reasonably allow me to scrub some of the deeper/narrower glasses, but it isn't the worst. Generally I just use warm water/dish soap/sponge and then a thorough rinse.

SARA is pretty far from anyone in this BIF (and anyone period... sort of like HF, although somehow people forget that because people actually live in CA as opposed to VT), but I think I am closest. Which means a 2-3 hour drive each way when they have bottles (which is infrequent at best because everything is hand-bottled in small batches) for 1-2 bottles per person limits. To be fair, people actually do live in Capitola, but there aren't so many of them. Either way, I don't think I'll be getting down that way too often, but I of course keep this group in mind when I do get it.

But then again you should know that I've sent out SARA in this BIF before, if you'd carefully read Page 77. Shame on all of you. Those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeating it... or something like that. Do I need to drive to Capitola again?

 

Wait, is it a chug and/or shot gun or just shot gun?

 

Had my Birthday/ 3 liter party last night. Lots of generous bottles opened.

CIB Orange Scorpion (joke/torture bottle from Brystmar)
JK Viking Metal thanks @UtisTheLaw
2014 Dark Lord
Great Divide 18th Anniversary
2012 Black Ops
3F Armand 4 Lente!!!
3 Liter Stone Double Bastard
3 Liter Prairie Jazz Millions aged in Gin barrels
3 Liter Prairie Eliza5beth
3 Liter Stone Vertical Epic 12.12.12
3 Liter Duvel 2010
PROP!
Stone Collective Distortion IPA
Cascade Tangerine Dream
Bruery Beauregarde
Bruery Melange 1
Bruery Rue d'Floyd
Bruery Floyd d'Rue

 

Hell yeah!

 

I believe it was either/or.

 

Done and done!

 

I will have to put this off at least until I have some papers written and my dissertation draft in another stage of review with my thesis committee, but I will do what I can to make this happen around my academic/work obligations (and their bizarre "whenever we feel like it" bottle release schedule)

 

So was this shotgunning a beer a LIF? Or just because? I ask because I'm plotting out how I want to do this.

 

It was shotgun or bust. Who cares if it's a Lif or not. Grab a 9% beer bust a hole and face that bitch.