With the Quickness

No one will get the title for this post. It was something that one of the guys in my boot camp company used to say. I tend to be something of a non sequitur at times, but I was originally just going to post a quick link. More about that later.

About a year ago, I posted how I had lost the spiritlurkers.com domain due to a billing snafu. Today I am glad to announce that I have regained the domain name and have it pointed back at my site. The site is extremely broken right now, but I will be working on it over the next few weeks off and on.

I gave the neighborhood a good show this morning getting into and out of the garage. During the -22 windchill nights of the last week, the spring for the garage door snapped, so it takes a monumental effort to open and close the door. My back just cannot take any more attempts. In a fit or retribution after getting hit on the top of the head for the second time, I broke out one of the windows in the garage door earlier this week. Today I climbed in through this window to investigate whether I could fix the door.

In order to do this, I had to get up on the deck chair and squeeze through to my waist. I then had to pivot with my hips on the sill so that my head inside the garage was down while my feet outside were now up in the air. Using my hands to walk forward on the garage door I eventually was able to wriggle in. This whole process was repeated in reverse to get back out. With any luck, no one actually witnessed my break in.

Part of the reason I was out in the garage was to look over the mash tun I built and get some measures. I ended up getting 2 turkey fryers for Christmas. Between these and the mash tun I made, I am going build a three-tier brew sculpture. This is why the measures were so vital!

It's pretty icy out and I am enjoying the fire, which was built using boxes/trash from the unwrapfest and wood gathered from my foray into the garage. Hope you all are safe and warm tonight.

Oh yeah, here's the link about our Christmas that was the reason I started this post in the first place.

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