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This week, I'll be in Philadelphia, PA for IETF 71. I'll be grateful for any suggestions for what to do in the evenings after my sessions are over. I understand there is a beer festival of some kind. I'll be trying to organize my fellow IETF cats to go do something with that. I may lose. We'll see.
Leopold is almost 16 months now. Last night, he stacked five of his Tot Tower boxes into a tower. It was about two and a half feet tall. He's been playing with those boxes a lot, and I'm convinced that these were far and away the best $20 investment in a toddler toy we ever made. Deceptively simple, yet he loves them, and I'm amazed to discover all the things he's been able to learn from playing with them.
Last night was also the first time either of us had conducted a conversation with him. It was entirely in very broken ASL, but it went like this:
Leopold (pointing at the logo on my computer): That?
Me: That's an apple.
Leopold: Yes, an apple! Want!
Me: You're hungry? You want to eat?
Leopold: Yes, want eat!
Me: Do you want some apple to eat?
Leopold: Yes, want apple!
So, I went and got him a slice of apple, and he was stoked. (I was pretty stoked too.)
It also turns out that we can stand in the kitchen with him and ask him to "turn on the music," and he will go into the other room and push the button on the console of his walker that makes it play Ode To Joy. (The walker is now pretty much only there for the music interface.)
For M-Day, we went down to Ben Lomond, to the big M-Day all-you-can-eat buffet spectacular at Tyrolean Inn (this was Gee's idea and a huge treat for me as well, since it's the only place I know of outside Germany where you can get Köstritzer on tap), then we hiked in Big Basin Redwoods State Park up the Skyline-to-the-sea Trail to Sunset Ridge and back down. At lunch, Leopold got really frustrated trying to pick the little slices of cantaloupe up off the plate, so I gave him my fork and showed him how to use it. For the rest of the meal, he insisted on using the fork to eat all his food. He took to it pretty quickly. (At dinner, he was really insistent on trying to use his spoon, but that— it turns out— is trickier. Surprisingly.)
One last Leopold accomplishment today: he asked for a tissue, and he used it to blow his nose. We were thunderstruck for about two minutes. Then he tried to eat it.
Plows under your whole household (5 gallons).
8 lb liquid pale malt extract
2.5 lb cracked english 2-row malted barley
1 lb cracked aromatic malted barley
0.5 lb cracked barley flakes
1 oz northern brewer pellet hops
2 oz east kent golding pellet hops
1 vial dry english ale yeast (white labs #wlp007)
Use partial mash procedure. Use 1 oz golding hops for finishing, and the rest for bittering (northern at 60 minutes, golding at 30 min). I often add 375 mL of grade B maple syrup with the finishing hops (any more and it's too much).
Use oxygen seal caps when bottling, and be sure to condition for several months. The batch I'm brewing today will probably be ready to drink in March. I still have a few bottles of the batch I brewed last year at this time. They're still quite good. I have no idea how well this stuff kegs, but if I had one of those nitrogen systems, I think I'd probably die of liver cirrhosis.
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