Hows my little letter?

Dear Music Industry,

Thank you for sucking less recently.

Faithful listener,
Tony

Hows my little letter?

Dear Music Industry,

Thank you for sucking less recently.

Faithful listener,
Tony

Hows my little Wineo?

On my laptop I have a nice blog started about dropping lasagna, but an event occurred today which is of much greater significance.

I began making wine today.
With the always lovely Sarah M. Fuller as my assistant, and Jason's equipment on loan while he blogs in Japan. It began with a trip up to wine creations here in Duluth, a store solely devoted to making wine, and a few beer materials here and there. After short deliberation I decided to make the only kind of wine I know for sure I like, Pinot Grigio. With a swipe of some plastic and some words of wisdom the creating could begin.






It included some easy to follow directions, but reading my book a little and random tidbits picked up from brew master Staab, lead me along the way.



First we began by stirring warm water.
Vigorously.
Then we added some stuff in a packet, and the concentrate. I bought the concentrate because apparently you need 100 pounds of grapes to produce 6 gallons of juice for wine.
Sarah stirred the concentrate with much enthusiasm.



Then we took our first Measurement with a hydrometer, which can detect the approximate amount of alcohol in my wine, it was at 9%. Which is not enough. So this week I am going to see if I can find a way to make it more buried in my book. I might just have to take what I can get for the time being.





Then we took the tempeture, which read well, turns out Jason has a floating Thermometer, which was one of the cooler things I have seen in a while.



So we added yeast, which makes alcohol...I think. What I DO know is that it starts the fermentation process which leads to alcohol.






After all of our scientific measuring we decided to try the unfermented wine. I nabbed a picture of Sarah while she was sucking it down. I thought it tasted a lot like apple sauce in juice form...oddly enough.



then we capped the bucket not to look at it for 5-7 days, right when I get back from memorial actually. that little clear thing on top of the bucket is a sweet little gadget that forces Gas (CO 2 I think) out but does not let air in, if it starts bubbling like it does with Jason's beer I'll take a little picture for ya or video.



So that was day one, I have 6 gallons of potential wine right now, but I have to pour it into a big glass container, only 5 gallons big...any tricks for me? I might pre bottle one just to see what exactly happens.

Oh and ummm if it turns out good (or bad for that matter) I will be selling it for 5$ a bottle to try and knock the price down a bit from me. I will have plenty available as 6 gallons makes 30 bottles of wine.


Summer school is going well too.

hows my little weather update

Today started off, sort of cloudy and 60 and ended up overcast and poopy
It was my first workday mixed with school day, 8 hours of class 35 min at home 6 and a half at work, now hopefully less than two for homework, putting me at hopefully more than 5 hours of sleep.

Woo this one is for you stabman


I have this Zit/in-grown hair on my belly and it is super annoying
Headed home friday-sunday, monday I will be buying my wine kit

Hows my little Japanese blogger?

Hey Kids, my delightful roomie, Jason 'will' Staab otherwise known as the Japanese Stabber, has blogged from the far east, or the Orient, if you will. It sounds like Japan is terating him well. He managed to find the only Zoo ever with moving animals, and it also sounds like he is having a good time with a postman and food (which are unrelated) he like every good traveler friend of mine has taken some pictures of Forigen Graffiti, which was wonderful of him.

My life on the other hand has been much less exciting, Ann took off today for the land of skyscrapers and mini-apples. I am home alone now, but on the other hand I am really busy with school, I am taking two May term classes, For those of you who arent clear about what a may term class consists of, it is a three week crash course where one day is equivalant to a week's worth of classes. For me that is 8 hours a day of class and on average at night three hours of home work, 3 hours of piddiling around, and 5 hours of sleep, not sure where the other 5 hours go...

I saw United 93 a couple of days ago too.

don't see united 93

I think I could have filmed it if I had 4 arabic friends willing to run around yelling things about allah in an airplane set. The character development was shitty..but then again what is there to develop, none of them are going to be around to get the girl at the end. In fact I am suprised Hollywood didn't change the ending to the movie to make sure one person got out alive for the sequal. As soon as the movie began I knew that it was going to bring closure at the end with a big black screen and white letters telling us some interesting figures about the day, and it did, three of them in fact. It did do a good job on the other hand evoking emotion. Going back to how I could have filmed this, If I could capture my friends amoung a frenzy of the arabic people screaming telling one of those airplane phones that they loved them, I think I could recreate it. altogether it was a disapointment. The fact that someone is making all sorts of money because of over a thousand deaths is absurd.

What was good about the movie though was the remake of 'The Omen' which was a sweet flick originaly. That come out june 6th, which if you didnt know yet is 6-6-06. good thing school is out, thats just asking for a shooting somewhere.

Justin pointed me to this song, its the new Shakira song with a different Girl singing. I bet the chick in it can't shake her ass like Shakira Can.

Hows my little l-i-v-i-n?

Folks, the long part of school is done! I did ok on all of my finals but one. It has been summer now for a few days here, but it has been rainy and cold LAMELAMELAME. Jon came up last week and we had a wonderful time.



Jason left for Japan today, He is going to be over there working and traveling around hither and tither. I loaded up a bunch of tunes on my nomad for him last night so that he can listen to all sorts of good stuff. I'm gunna miss him.
Did you know ANYONE can be an AARP member as long as they sign up and have their 12.50 annual fee, found that one on CNN. Neat huh?
Ann is leaving me for a new life down in the cities, thats going to be sad.
I am excitied to be up in Duluth all summer, I am not excited to miss lots of thngs about home though. for example:

* Disc golfing a lot, or at all
* A mall or best buy that I don't hate driving to
* Ma and Pa and Sis
* Chip
* Watching movies in justin's basement, even though he doesn't want to
* Watching movies in Tony's Basement because he wanted to
* Trading music
* Being loud and stupid in a car
* Seeing nearly every movie that comes out in the summertime
* Seeing said movies at midnight
* Taco Bell
* Swimming in gross ponds to find frisbee golf discs
* and most of all...MY FRIENDS!!

but its ok, I know some good people up here who will make the time fly, I am excited up here to play my drum outside and try to make a total of one dollar this summer, putting a remote starter in my car, having enough money to live, lallapalooza? riding my bike to lots of places, learning about how to design things, taking summertime pictures of Duluth, Walking by the lake, and what I am going to start today...MAKING WINE!!!

Well folks it has been a while since I wrote, that pretty much sums things up, there was a time last week that I went for 3 days-ish with only 4 hours of sleep under my belt, but I got everything done and that pleases me. Take it easy all, and feel free to visit the city of Duluth this summer, I am a good host! ask Erin, she will vouch for me.

Hows my little finals week?

I want to be really excited for summer, but the monday after finals week(may 15th) I start my two may term classes, along with work....I have been beating my ass raw to get it ready for this term.
Jon is coming tuesday.
I have like 5 things due monday and only one mostly done...waa waa.
I had the pleasure of seeing the presidents of the united states of america live on friday. remember them? I think they were only worth the 5$ the student ticket was, like them recorded better, but it was a fun happy show.
Working at the frront desk is good, I am busy non-stop and thats good for me because it leaves me no time to sand or sit bored.
Stadium Arcadium is deliciously good, I have a date with The Anniemosity to romp up to best buy on tuesday when it comes out.
I am doing an art project where I make myself a slinky sort of...



Keep rockin folks, and I hope those of you with finals still left get some sleep

Hows my little facebooker?

I stumbled across some very interesting facebook facts on wikipedia, presented in wonderful bullet form.







* over 2,000 Universities are registered with facebook
* it is avaliabe at over 25,000 Canadian and American High Schools
* also 10 companies such as microsoft and pepsi use it as well
* it was founded in 2004 (you could call it a run away success)
* if you want to purchase facebook, all you need is 2 BILLION dollars

Privacy fun facts

* College students have been diciplined for drinking in dorms because of Facebook
* There are some instances when Employers check a future employee's profile and pictures before they hire them

The next bit is about college usage

* About 85% of students of facebooked colleges have a profile
* Of those who sign up, 60% log in DAILY
* 85% log in once a week
* 93% log in at least once a month

Pretty amazing for being around for only two years.
If you care you can read all of the features of it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(website)

Hows my little panic!?

Folks, yesterday I woke up and decided to look at my calendar to see what I have on my plate this week. Turns out this is my last week of classes...I thought I had one more, so I am busy as shit starting/finishing all of my final projects this week.

News 'round the world.
I hear the catholic faith is looking into condom use to prevent AIDS, but not more babies.
Go immigrants! we need all of these illegal cats to do all the labor no real American wants to. I.E. plant gardens, clean up shit & puke, and to roof our houses.
Mexico is about to sign a bill into law saying you can posses small amounts of Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, and Extasy. Mexico Spring break '07 anybody?

News from me.
Things with Ann and I are great
School is so-so
I start the front desk job today
This week there will be a big investment in Energy drinks, for I won't be sleeping much
I still like people