Thanksgiving

My mom has been sick this week so instead of making Thanksgiving dinner herself, she instructed my sister, brother, and myself on what to do.  I made pumpkin pies the night before so I got out of most of the work :P  The pies were great though.. I need to make those more often.

I didn't do any black Friday shopping myself, but I am indeed thinking about what I will buy my family.  I'm thinking a Kourig machine for my sister at least so far.

Today my Dad and I were going to start brewing our homemade beer, but when I got to his place we realized we didn't have a big enough pot.  That gave us some time to look over what else we needed to do at least and we're going to try on Sunday after we get a 5 gallon pot.   This will be the first time brewing for the both of us so we are excited.  He's done wine before so he has some experience.  I'm doing a Fireside Winter Warmer and he's doing an IPA.  Hope they turn out.

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving too!

One year and a dream

It's been one year this week since I've started my new job in Pittsburgh, and I haven't posted since - imagine that!  I'm going to be posting more often, but truthfully I'm not doing much these days.  I've been playing Final Fantasy XI a lot, probably too much, but it's fun and it passes the time.  Right now most of the players and myself are ogling at the FF-XIV trailer for the second launch of the game.  I have high hopes they will do this one right.

A lot has happened the last year though, it's quite amazing what can happen in a year and I seem to notice that all the time.  I got a new (used) car - a 2006 Honda Civic which I really like and is a huge upgrade over my 94 olds lol..

Random, but I had a weird dream last night.  From what I remember there was a space shuttle that was set up to launch soon.  It was night-time and eerie.  I've had dreams once in a while centered on night-time, the stars, space and spacecraft that are always on the verge of turning into a nightmare.  Frankly I like them.  Anyway I remember finding an overcoat or a button down shirt with a lot of blood on it over a chair in the basement of the house I was in.  Something about my brother being the one who left it.  That's all I can remember.


-Shane