Josh did end up stopping in yesterday afternoon to spend the night. I got to see some cool RPI folk as well, all passing through town on their way to their final Spring Break destination at a cabin on the North Carolina/Tennessee border. Several of them ducked out early to get some sleep while JW and I hit the Brickskeller. He’ll probably be back down here in a couple of weeks for more apartment hunting, which is good because I’ll be available to show him some of the better regions to live in this area, a resource I wish I had when I moved down here last Spring.
JW left early this morning to visit in North Carolina. I was already up, and with nothing better to do at nine on a Sunday morning, I decided to brew some beer! There was a slight funk taste in the batches from previous attempts back in November, which I later attributed to the poor-quality water (filled with a nice chlorine flavor) that comes out of my tap. I filtered all five gallons of the brewing water through my Brita pitcher (which actually took a long time) to remove the chlorine taste, so we’ll see how it turns out this time. It should hopefully be ready by two weeks from today (March 27th).
The hardest part is always the waiting! Luckily this week should prove quite busy at work, and this upcoming weekend I’ll be out of town (more details on that in a later post). As for the rest of today, I have a few people that I want to call, and then I’m gonna work on uploading all of the pictures from Italy that have been on my laptop since I returned back in November. I’ll post the link when they’re up.