he knows that santa's on his way

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Originally uploaded by gregandchristine

We just finished laying out all the xmas bounty for Colin. His little head has been threatening to explode for about a week, so he had a bit of trouble falling asleep tonight.

us:you have to go to sleep for Santa to come.
Colin: it is taking so so SO SO long for night night time to come.
Colin:I just want to stay up all night and it be morning time.
us: it doesn't work that way, you need to put your head down and go to sleep.
Colin: I want you to go to sleep, and I stay up all night. You get laughing freight cars (the toy he asked Santa for), and in the morning you share them with me.

That is some good negotiating. So I threw him in the car and we went to look for Santa until he passed out.

Merry Christmas everybody.

the next level

the next level
Originally uploaded by gregandchristine

I finally assembled all the parts of my birthday present and figured out how to use them. I have one full 5G keg, and 2 full 3G.

Now that I know how to tear down and clean the kegs, this will be much easier than bottling.

I still have more to learn about CO2 volumes and carb times, balancing dispensing pressure, but I think the study time will pay off pretty quick.

anybody want to come over for a beer?