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robby ([personal profile] robby) wrote2008-09-06 09:23 am

The Effluvium Of My Life

One batch of peach wine has started fermenting, and is happily bubbling away, and I'll introduce yeast to the second batch tonight.

I'm reading "The Well At The World's End", written in 1896 and full of faux Medieval English, which makes it fun for me too read.

This is the last day of our mini heat wave (Al Gore was right :o), and my evaporative cooler is working like a charm. You not read me whining about working in a steel building under beastly 100 degree plus conditions any more. It's the perfect technology for this hot dry climate. In the hottest part of the afternoon, when the humidity drops to 16%, the damn thing works even more efficiently.

[identity profile] jemisoutrageous.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Robby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] hughknox.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
clever robby!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[identity profile] hughknox.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
because you can make wine and control the elements.

[identity profile] robby.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Gosh, maybe I'm a Greek god, or something. I wish I could throw lightning bolts.

[identity profile] hughknox.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
have you ever attempted to figure out a way to do that? perhaps you could adapt a tesla coil to a hand-held assault weapon. if you do, i want one.

[identity profile] robby.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I would prefer the classic jaggity Z-shaped spears like Zeus would fling down from Mount Olympus.

[identity profile] hughknox.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
i knew it. you're a classicist!

[identity profile] robby.livejournal.com 2008-09-06 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I'm a little like Jack Nickolson in "The Shining", because I keep coming back.

[identity profile] 69-tears.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Peach wine -- sigh!

xoxo

[identity profile] hughknox.livejournal.com 2008-09-07 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
a girl who has her priorities straight. : )

[identity profile] 69-tears.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely ;)