Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

Sweeney said:
You're talking me out of moving there Tour :D We were in the low 60s yesterday at least briefly in the afternoon, today mid 40's.

I'm taking Serenity with me to Texas - I think. I'm leaving late next week, where the day time temps will be above freezing. I should be in little rock area by nightfall with temps dipping just below freezing. By night #2 I will be in Dallas where the temperatures are forecast to be above freezing the rest of the time I'm there. I think I'm almost done with winter....


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Last Friday I saw this --- how would a CI look behind it? Thats polished stainless steel...the photo doesn't do it justice, it almost looks like a color shifting prismatic paint since the color is dependant on whatever it is reflecting. Amazing to see. It took over 1000 hours to polish it.

I'm not a super car guy, I love the art of vintage vehicles, but I couldn't tell the difference between a 35 and 38. Though in this case, it is a 1936 ford at the Ford V8 Museum (Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum | Classic Car Museum) in Auburn Indiana. Its just a stones through from the ACD (Auburn, Cord, Dusenberg) museum in Auburn. Tell ya, between the 3 car museums there and the Studebaker Museum in South Bend --- if you're a serious car person -- northern Indiana is the place to go....
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What you don’t like ice fishing!
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Subzero temperatures at night for the next ten days. In the daytime the temperatures are in the single digit positives. Lowest low of -13F and highest low of -1F. Highest high of 9F and lowest high of 3F.

Four inches of new snow is expected tonight and seven inches on Saturday.
 
Tour 931 said:
Subzero temperatures at night for the next ten days. In the daytime the temperatures are in the single digit positives. Lowest low of -13F and highest low of -1F. Highest high of 9F and lowest high of 3F.

Four inches of new snow is expected tonight and seven inches on Saturday.
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....but how's the fishing?;)
 
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Old Style.
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I love old signage like that! Especially anything with Neon, which I still contend is a high art form :)

But I have to admit, I"ve never tasted Old Style. What is made today is not the same. Ironically enough, going back to your sign...Kreusening. PBR, the current owner, has discontinued the process and has no plans to return it. Kreusening is adding active wort for a second fermentation that has to change the flavor significantly.

I'm not a huge fan of beer, I find it heavy -- liquid bread. I've developed a taste for wine and whiskey. But if I were drinking a beer, I guess that these older brews would be much closer to my taste preferences than what is on the self today. Current trends are for big flavor IPA. This is true for a lot of things no just beer...it seems everyone wants BIG taste. There is something to be said for subtle. Be that in a beverage or entrees. A hamburger is fine, it doesn't need applewood-smoked bacon, avocado, and egg yolk, topped with an onion-encrusted brioche. THough I am FAR more apt to like the burger than an IPA
 
Sweeney said:
.... A hamburger is fine, it doesn't need applewood-smoked bacon, avocado, and egg yolk, topped with an onion-encrusted brioche. THough I am FAR more apt to like the burger than an IPA
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Yeah, IPA's are something that grow on you. In the mid 80's when my dad and I first invested in the startup Summit Brewing Company in St.Paul, they had a premium that gave all the investors 2 cases / month of what ever beer they had a surplus of. It was pretty much all various IPAs, with some quite bold (bitter), and others not as much. At first I didn't care for it much compared to the various lager types I had mostly drunk up until then, but as time went on the taste became what I was looking for, and now the standard lagers seem kinda boring, and I'd just soon drink water as any of the "Lite" beers. After about 20 years they ended the monthly beer premium because it was to costly for book keeping since the IRS said they had to declare the value of the beer as a dividend, and keep track of who came and got theirs each month.

So they said they would roll that money into an annual dividend instead. We never saw a single dividend, so once both of my parents had died, and as executor to their estate I had to divvy it up equally to the siblings, the Summit stock had to go. It was a privately held company, so stock sales were not able to be done through a regular brokerage, so I went to a shareholders meeting and offered up our shares for sale. I found one shareholder who for what ever reason wanted to add to his holdings, and was able to do a private sale. I realized a hefty 5% gain on the original investment....divide that by approx. 30 yrs to get the APR :(.
One of the pourer performing investments I ever made. But now I pretty much buy only IPA's, and even sometimes Summit's Pale Ale or Saga IPA's. ;)
 
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Yeah, IPA's are something that grow on you. In the mid 80's when my dad and I first invested in the startup Summit Brewing Company in St.Paul, they had a premium that gave all the investors 2 cases / month of what ever beer they had a surplus of. It was pretty much all various IPAs, with some quite bold (bitter), and others not as much. At first I didn't care for it much compared to the various lager types I had mostly drunk up until then, but as time went on the taste became what I was looking for, and now the standard lagers seem kinda boring, and I'd just soon drink water as any of the "Lite" beers. After about 20 years they ended the monthly beer premium because it was to costly for book keeping since the IRS said they had to declare the value of the beer as a dividend, and keep track of who came and got theirs each month.

So they said they would roll that money into an annual dividend instead. We never saw a single dividend, so once both of my parents had died, and as executor to their estate I had to divvy it up equally to the siblings, the Summit stock had to go. It was a privately held company, so stock sales were not able to be done through a regular brokerage, so I went to a shareholders meeting and offered up our shares for sale. I found one shareholder who for what ever reason wanted to add to his holdings, and was able to do a private sale. I realized a hefty 5% gain on the original investment....divide that by approx. 30 yrs to get the APR :(.
One of the pourer performing investments I ever made. But now I pretty much buy only IPA's, and even sometimes Summit's Pale Ale or Saga IPA's. ;)
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Oh man, thats terrible! The IRS is never your friend --- best thing that coul happen is if that entire organization was purged. Replaced with a constitutionally compatalbe for of taxation. OR, at the very least the "Fair Tax" which eliminates the IRS yet remains revenue neutral. End of the day, no income tax.

Neal Boortz wrote a book the fair tax a long time ago -- worth the read. I have a signed copy if it somewhere around here.
 
Sweeney said:
I love old signage like that! Especially anything with Neon, which I still contend is a high art form :)

But I have to admit, I"ve never tasted Old Style. What is made today is not the same. Ironically enough, going back to your sign...Kreusening. PBR, the current owner, has discontinued the process and has no plans to return it. Kreusening is adding active wort for a second fermentation that has to change the flavor significantly.

I'm not a huge fan of beer, I find it heavy -- liquid bread. I've developed a taste for wine and whiskey. But if I were drinking a beer, I guess that these older brews would be much closer to my taste preferences than what is on the self today. Current trends are for big flavor IPA. This is true for a lot of things no just beer...it seems everyone wants BIG taste. There is something to be said for subtle. Be that in a beverage or entrees. A hamburger is fine, it doesn't need applewood-smoked bacon, avocado, and egg yolk, topped with an onion-encrusted brioche. THough I am FAR more apt to like the burger than an IPA
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Try the shiner bock in Texas, Sweeney.
That and some Redman and you'll wanna hit yo daddy...
Reminds me of kicker bars down around Kingsville where the band plays behind chicken wire, and ya offload your beer in the horse trough.
 
One of my BFF IRL have one of these in their living room...every darned time I see it, I get that jingle running through my head....Thank you :D

They have a fantastic collection of cultural artifacts -- Comic books, movie posters, life magazines, and even have a Thurston the Magician poster...not a recreation, but one of the 6-foot-tall posters on news-paper stock that would be posted when "Thurston" was coming to town...Very few of these still in existence.

Sadly, and I know this isn't a religious forum, but he is my closest family member by choice...I know him more than I knew my own Dad. Hes having all kinds of health problems including dementia...He needs prayers. I don't expect him to be cured, but at least to give him and his wife comfort as they struggle through this.


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