wow, the future is here, again!

Ok fokers

I am officiallyy off on a wild ride of a next week in V EGAS!

I have those awesome funny underlining feelings that tell me crazy shizzit is happening and going to happenb EVEN MORE this week, for me, and you!!!!

Some up and coming things:

!)Beeer brew vids coming next week when I back from V.
2)tons of crazy vids of the wack stuff that awesomely constantly keeps happening in my life.
3) A very i important (I think) Article regarding the state of our current Earth Sustainability plan.

be there. where ever there is to you. Is where you should be.

Brew update #2

So after the 4 day fermentation process, our extremly tasty looking and smelling nut brown ale is well on its way to being happily in my belly! The yeast is definatley alive and doing its co2/alcohol creation thing, and had an intense bubbly head full of chocolate nutiness, mmmmm.

Joram and I transferred the beer from the fermenting bucket to a glass container with an air lock, called a Carboy. We also tasted a little mid brew beer: I am wowed with excitement!!
Two weeks from now the beer will be more carbonated and of a higher percentage of alcohol.

until then..

(the vids of this whole experience are coming along great... when the moment is right, they will be unleashed)

Its moments like these...

Ahhh yes, its moments like this that stir up the warm fuzz inside a lot of us. The misty ominous air of the season has fallen apon us, stiring up change, inspiring new ideas, and placing many inside the cozyness of their warm homes. Fall is apon us! And as an immigrated South African, I am surprised to feel, for the first time in 10 years, so excited for this moody mysterious feeling in the fall air; Mmm.. chimney smoke and a warm nest bed.

So I encourage: Embrace this time of year, let it inspire you, and take comfort in the warmth that it delivers.

The choice is yours:

Complain about the rain, and let it be a reason for a season of sullen feelings.

OR

Choose to embrace it, feed off it, and be happy with what is happening RIGHT NOW!
(its your life and believe it or not: you choose to be what you are!)

WHO KNEW : another of natures best : Grapes!

Wow, I love it!

ANother of natures beautiful collaborations :

GRAPES ARE APPARENTLY VERY GOOD FOR YOU!

So the net says, Grapes have been found (by a chemist at Bordeaux Uni.) to contain something called polyphenol, that seems to reduce or slow or something. the aging of your SKIN.
(THE most important part of the grape for this polyphenol is in the seed!!!)

CRAZY! and SERIOUSLy
AWESOME!

So my word to you today folks,

is

GET SEEDED GRAPES (ESPECIALLY wine grapes)
crush them
bath in them
eat them

and live forever!NOW!

Brew update! Im hooked!!

After wanting to create my own beer for such a long time, I have finally had my first experience of it!
It was seriously incredible:

My good friend Joram, who is very enthusiastic about life (I love it!) has a bunch of brewing experience and all the materials necessary from the thermometer to the glass carboys. So it was the perfect occasion for my first attempt.

Dan from the brewing store hooked me up with a good looking "nutbrown ale" recipe and all the ingredients! He quietly and mysteriously gave me all the info I asked for, without offering up more than neccessary! Quite strange, friendly, and intriguing. I will definatley be back for more of his distant knowhow.

So today being the day, we went through the first days process of cookin the barley, chocolate, malt, other bits, and eventually the hops and finishing hops, added our questionable yeast, and dilluted this warm hearty mixture to 22lt (I think).

The yeast was a different type than Joram had used before. It was liquid with a bag inside a bag that you had break (smack with hand technique) to mix. The directions on the back were quite contrary to dry yeast proceedure, so we didnt know if it was going to work... and I guess we still don't... but apparently if it doesn't then we will just add the dry yeast after the first waiting period and will be on our way without any issues.... coool!

One of the most best parts for me today was the incredible smell of the "wort" or mixture boiling up. It smelled absolutley to die for, love worthy, and very homely with the warm malty hopsy smell. I love it!

For those who don't know like I didn't until today, apparently the way it all works is as follows:

Boil up barley, wheat...etc in water
take sample of boil mix to later add yeast too
add hops
add yeast to sample
add more hops (finishing) at the end of the boil
cool mix to room temp
add sample with yeast to boiled mix called the "wort"
dillute with water to 22lt.

This may be a little off but it is as I remember it right now.

now we wait 4 days to see if the yeast is starting to work.
if it is, then we will put it all (minus the sediment) into a big glass bottle called a carboy, and seal the opening,

Two weeks then goes by and we add sugar, and bottle it all (minus the sediment)
and wait at least another week until starting to drink... and should get better and better the more time goes by until a point when it all just goes to sh..

apparently the little yeast guys eat the sugar and then "fart out the co2, and puke out the alcohol" (this is how it was explained to me) and all those other ingredients are for flavouring.

The timing and sanitization seemes to be very important to the outcome!

Well I had a very incredible first day experience and looking forward to all kinds of different beers in the future.....

But first 4 days will pass and we will be at stage two with this first nutbrown batch!

Enjoy... and try brewing beer, seriously you can do it anywhere!

Oh and by the way, I got all this on video, so it should hit the web soon, and you'll get to meet Joram.

The beer lover becomes a brew student

Yes, it is true,

I am stoked about brewing my own brew.

I have never endeavored this before, and foresee this as the beginning to a whole new world of FUN for times to come.

So, today I am off to "Dans Home Brewing" to buy the malt, hops, wheat and initial know how for brewing my first ever batch of beer.

Joram, my incredible adventurous friend, already has the materials and experience to help me get started with this adventure. So tomorrow its on, and of course I will pay him a beer tax for his incredible generosity!

Beer here I come!

Im blown!

Hello you,

Today I have been blown up and away! For the first time since I was a mere 10 or so yrs old, holding incredible power in my grasp, I blew up some serious targets with some seriously powerful guns, at the range. Keep in mind this is out of the norm for most of my bred Canadian friends.

It all started with a hesitated trigger-minded safety talk, pumping me up further for the big bangs to come. And through this whole experience safety was everywhere, unlike my African childhood recklessness.

After a rain moodified drive out to Coq. we finally arrived at this non existent crazyvibe shooting range.

The first thing that hit, before we even got close to the firing benches, was not even how damn loud it wAs, but the intensity of the shocking wave that travels from the bang, and hits you in the face, sending adrenaline. I didn't really get used to it by the end, just less surprised.

Mark, Joram, and Emily, my South African, German, and Canadian friends took me with them too this much anticipated, and suddenly spontaneous shooting adventure.

After watching and waiting for a shooting bench / shuddering constantly from shock wave shooting therapy, Mark set our first targets (during siezefire) and immediatley pulled out the biggest and newest purchase of a beastly rifle canon, the "300". He loaded it up with large brass 2inch shells, and when the range was declared clear by the gun crazy Range Officers, he blasted off three of some of the loudest hard kicking bangs I had heard so far.

It looked really f'ing serious.

So, Joram jumped right in with a big grin and blasted the 300 confidently.

I worked my way up from a .22 (pellet gun in comparison to 300) to a 303 (old world war two single shot rifle also with serious bang) and then to the..

Crazy semi automatic 300 bomb shooter.

I loved it all immediately!....In the fun target shooting crazy experience kinda way, not the blood hungry reckless killer way. I even managed to pull of a bulls eye with that big ass rifle.

All of us shot all the guns, as well as saw many incredibly large and loud ones around us, with the odd twitchy eyed gun "Crazy" behind the trigger, in the next bench over, blasting off huge loud rounds that rumbled through us as we tried our best to respect the incredible energy in our hands, index fingers, but mostly in our heads.

My excitement grew stronger and stronger throughout this whole experience leaving me with a gun crazed exuberance by the end. It really made me think of all the brain washed soldiers out there, that after intense training, must have some sort of adrenaline crazed trigger pulling rush that makes it easy to want to kill opposing soldiers(people)....quite frighting really!

After a few hours, feeling shocked and exhilarated, we finished off with our last blasts. A range Marshall, who had been joking and chatting with us earlier, and had been shooting this incredible swat team assault rifle, offered for us to shoot it next time in a couple weeks, as well as some hand guns. OH YEAH!

I'll defiantly be there, but with video Camera in hand this time.... you'll see it all, when times are right!

All ready for some quite, we drove home quite shell shocked and electrified from this crazy experience. YeahLife!

Well, that's the crazyness for today!

Enjoy!



p.s. Guns are cool and exhilarating and fun and everything...but damn are they intensely intimidating and SERIOUS! Its great to live in a country that controls gun usage by the public so tightly as to have people take a course and be educated first before walking
out to the city with live rounds ready for the anywhere blasting. I am seriously grateful for this!

Hello and Ahoy to all the incredible people out there, read and enjoy!

Hello,

I do not know you (yet?) but I welcome you to this incredible place we all call life, and invite you to love every moment you experience constantly.

I am excited to put down all the incredible random things that come to me as my fingers move themselves across this keyboard, spreading endless good times, and well intended life challenging thoughts, idea's, experiences, and ______.

I personally love all the crazeeeness that constantly entertains my every waking moment and enjoy sharing my experiences. I look forward to meeting all sorts of you and hearing the ideas, thoughts, and out there perceptions from all who wish to contribute.

Be who you are, that you want to be.

You will hear more from me.

Enjoy-now!