Bier en modder

Nothing earth-shattering here.  Indoor rides are humming along.  Hour here.  Couple hours there.  It all adds up.  I’m keeping things in the 6-8 hours a week range right now.  That’ll last until mid February when I get back from Hawaii.  Doesn’t seem to make a ton of sense to start increasing time or intensity when I’m going to be taking a full week off.  I’ll also order the new MTB when I get back too.  Exciting.

In the meantime, I’ve been riding some, brewing some, and trying to chase down some of those mildly irritating household fix-its that have been coming up.  First, an electrical line got a short circuit somewhere during the big that we had in late Dec. after the snowstorm.  It’s an outdoor/basement line.  I’ve chased it down to either the outside walkway lights or the outside outlet.  Haven’t taken it any further than that.  Next, a hose in the hot tub spring a leak.  That took a little time to get a new hose and replace it.  There’s others but I must be mentally blocking them right now.

Got a couple brews in the works right now.  One was a double alt I made around x-mas.  Looks like the yeast pooped out and it failed to finish fermenting.  I’ve gon through various phases with it; begging, pleading, bribing, cursing – but it still won’t finish.  Threw in some champaigne yeast but that hardly budged it.  Right now, it’s in the basement in a 10 gal. keg just sitting there.  I should try to pick up a bunch of yeast from Hopworks to finish it out.  If that doesn’t work, then there’s not much more I can do.  Drink it I guess, but I’m not a fan of sweeter beers.  The second beer I just made Sunday, an ESB, turned out good.  It’s in the basement too, bubbling away.

Have I mentioned that a week in Hawaii is just 12 days away.  I can almost taste the rum punch already.  A second trip this year, possibly to Disneyworld (whatever the FL one is), is being worked out with my side of the family for late August.  Still hammering out the details with the rest of my family.

OK, 2 quick movie reviews.

Face/Off.  With John Travolta and Nick Cage’s corpse

One of John Woo’s better movies, although in my opinion, the last 45 minutes or so got pretty tedious.  I mean, with the gunfights lasting 20+ minutes each and knowing full well that Cage and Travolta wouldn’t actually shoot or otherwise harm each other, the movie tended to drag.

I’m thinking of adding another category to the ratings: Ending, or something where I can quantify ‘how badly (or not) do I want this movie to end’.  Personally, once I reach the 90+ minute mark on the trainer, I need every little bit of help I can get to stay distracted from how uncomfortable my ass is.  A tedious movie is not it.  So not only am I thinking ‘I want to get off this bike’ I’m also thinking ‘I want this craptacular movie to end’.

I need to give this more thought.

On to movie #2

Incredible Hulk.  With Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and Tim Roth

Not very well liked in the box office, this turned out a little better than I thought.  I do, however, have a weakness for comic book movies, especially with today’s movie technology.  There were a few moments of quiet dialog but you’re really watching this movie for the scenes with the Hulk – I think there were 3 or 4 total.  To that effect, the last 20-30 minutes flew by – almost to the point where I got finished and thought ‘wow, that was quick’.  I like that.

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