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March 25, 2012: Dominance

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Last night, nibbish became the latest in a long line of WGOMers to win a season of Spookymilk Survivor (it's now five straight for the site). Old Chicago in Apple Valley wishes you were there to wish him well. You know, unless you were, which is possible because a lot of people were there.

59 thoughts on “March 25, 2012: Dominance”

  2. My mother in law leaves today. I don't want to sound like a sitcom character, but it will be nice to have our normal family unit (+1) back after having a houseguest for 6 weeks. She was very helpful while she was here, but I'm not sad to see her go.

    1. Aye, I know the feeling.

      I've got the MIL who does all kinds of things for us because she wants to, and then resents how much she's doing for us, despite us never having asked for her help in the first place.

    2. Even if she was everything you could want, she's still not part of the core family unit. That's just a fact.

    3. So it looks like I won't make the draft tonight, so I asked a friend to sign in for me and cover it. He has never heard of the wgom so go eat on him, please.

            1. After trying to do it on a net book last year and not being able to scroll on that screen, I think I'll pass.

              1. I think you should just defer, and take all your picks at the end of the draft, from the remaining players.

                1. I was in a league that we did the draft offline and one guy couldn't make it, so we all would come to a group consensus who he should draft.

    4. So on a somewhat related note, either my mother in law will be stayingwith us or my wife and kids will be heading up to their house to set up hospice care and take care of my father in law for the duration.

      The crappy month of March continues in the z house.

    5. My MIL stayed with us for a while after our firstborn. We were moving across the country at the time too, so her help was greatly, greatly appreciated. But it was also nice when it got back to being just our little family. Enjoy it.

  3. Went to the new Andrew Wyeth exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum this morning. Nice collection - included a number of the preliminary sketches alongside of the finished works. Notable pieces include North Point, Christina Olsen sitting in a doorway, April Wind, Chambered Nautilus).

    Also had a photo gallery next door where another Wyeth had gone up to Maine to photograph of number of the buildings, trees + other stuff that was the basis for many of AW's works.

    Wyeth is probably my favorite American painter - many of his works done in egg tempura (yolk+distilled water+pigments).

    What I found interesting is that I know nearby New Britain Museum of American Art has at least 3 A. Wyeths (McVey's Barn, John Olsen's Funeral, Revenant), and at least one piece by his old man. So either Wadsworth 1) didn't ask to borrow the pieces for their exhibit, 2) did ask and they said no, or 3) maybe there is a covenant or such whereby the paintings can't leave the NBMAA site.

  4. Willingham to start in LF. RF is a competition between Revere, Plouffe and Parmelee. Plouffe is probably the odd man out at this point, since he's been hurt and Parmelee and Revere are both playing well. Still time for that to change.

    1. Revere's arm in right field. I don't see that. If Revere is one of the three OFs and Willingham is in left, then Revere needs to be in center, with Dino in right.

      1. I'm thinking he's just going to be a straight up 4th outfielder at this point. Maybe that'll change later in the year, but management knows his arm. I can't imagine they're going to task him with being the primary player at a position that treasures arm power over all else.

        1. Even if he is the fourth outfielder, they need to keep him out of right field. Teams are going to run wild on him out there.

          1. I totally agree, and I think they will keep him out of right field. There was even some speculation that he could possibly start the season at AAA.

  5. 26 minutes into the boil on my latest batch of ProSeries Surly Furious.

    The boys at Northern Brewer had dropped Furious from their catalog. When I called in to ask, they said there was a Simcoe hop shortage - but they were able to pull together a kit for me anyways.

      1. Regardless of how I do it, there is always this moment after adding the malt syrup where I have to haul the beer pot off the burner 3-4 times to prevent it from boiling over - it finally settles down, but a lot of dramatics.

        1. There's no getting around that, really. You could try a spray bottle, but I find just picking the whole damn thing up is easier, although 6-7 gallons of sugary water is annoyingly heavy.

          1. The most perilous moment of Brewing Day is over - carrying the primary fermenter down the basement stairs, and not tripping.

            1. Sometimes I'm glad I have a basement with a ground level entrance. Glad it made it down there in-tact.

            1. A European Bock. I've been wanting some of late, but I always forget to pick some up (and the selection isn't that great around here for them, anyway), so I figured I'd make some of my own.

              I've seriously got to do this more often. I forgot how enjoyable it is. I've got a Brown Ale in queue, and then I was thinking of making something a little hoppier, though my father-in-law also wants to make up another batch of the Amber Ale we made last summer.

              1. Make a black IPA! I made one and it is awesome. (I dry-hopped the shit out of it with citra hops, so it smells out of this world.)

                1. I am going to have a trio of barleywines tonight during the draft. One Bigfoot, one Brooklyn, and one cheaptoy.

                  Tomorrow I am going to have a trio of headaches.

                    1. Well, I don't know Rob's friend real well, but I'm going to guess that he would go real nice with a baked potato.

                  2. Having the Bigfoot first is going to be really unfair towards the other brews.

                    1. Good fruit flavor in the brew, ct. Did you add coffee ground to the brew for balance? I think I could have stood to let it age a little bit more but it is pretty terrific.

                      Thanks again for the package and I look forward to taking down the rest.

                  1. I just made one up off the top of my head, but I can send you the recipe sheet if you'd like.

                    2. Am into Imperial IPAs now - Cap'n Lawrence, Widmer Nelson (Deadlift), Peak Organic's Imperial Red. Haven't seen any kits out there yet.

              2. I just got together the ingredients for an english bitter, and monday happens to be brew day. I'm looking forward to a decent session brew after my last brewing experiment. I made some rocket fuel that was aggressively (over) hopped which became drinkable after about 6 months in the bottle. I'm looking forward to sipping some summit EPA found in San Antonio while brewing my afternoon way.

  7. Gameday had Fernando Salas pitching to himself on the screen there for a while.

  8. The race for the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference of the NHL is really helping the Wild lock down a better draft position.

  9. Wow. I've been at the bottom of the NCAA bracket since the start but if Kentucky beats OSU in the Championship (which could be considered very likely) I'm pretty sure I'll take it.

      1. 3/4 right for me. So of course the one I don't have is Michigan State, who instead of winning it all, decided to lose two rounds ago.

        1. I went from 16th percentile on ESPN.com after last week to 89th percentile today. Bizarre.

        2. dido with Magoo.

          I got all my picks right. It was the tournament that got the outcomes wrong.

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