Still elated over today’s news especially as it coincidentally happened the day before we have a Japanese removal company coming to give us a quote for moving our stuff over next year.

Definitely having a celebratory drink this evening, flu be damned.

Woke up to the news that the local government of our future village in Japan, has just finished renovating a house in the village and are going to keep it vacant for us if we want it.

Hell yes! I love my wife’s family and am grateful that they are making space for us but delighted that it will just be temporary whilst we set the new house up.

Switched off my dendrite instance and am now dual-synapsing.. within minutes I was able to get cactus chat set up for my site.. I love the idea of dendrite, but the development is too slow for me.. will check in from time to time if two synapses on one SBC is a bit much but I think it should be fine.

Right then, results for first assignment of the current course received the run of A’s continues.. yeah, I’m somewhat surprised about that too.

Just been for our 20 week scan and it seems that our new family addition will be devoid of Y chromosomes and despite thinking that I didn’t have a preference for the sex of our baby, it turns out I am delighted that we’ll (likely) be having another wee girl.

I added 150g of houjicha (ほうじ茶), a roasted green tea into the 20L of brown ale in my fermenter this evening.. when I wrote the recipe I didn’t appreciate just how much tea that was :) just shy of two full packets.. I guess I’d better order larger quantities from the in-laws next time!

Today marks my 25th brew day and should be pretty chill, making a stout and it’s one which I’ve created the recipe for from scratch, trying to apply some knowledge that I’ve acquired through previous brews and through my course to properly design the recipe and brew schedule for it.

I love stouts and I feel that they are very forgiving of mistakes (can handle undesirable flavour compounds a little better than lighter beers etc.) but it is so damned tempting to throw in cacao nibs and coffee beans.. must resist! This is to be a beer upon which future stout recipes can be developed.

Scottish Beer Awards tonight. Whilst I’ll never get a chance to participate I am considering establishing an annual Shikoku Beer Awards event.. which I think would be a lot of fun.

Having a quick look at some open source software for my in-laws’ online tea shop etc. as I try to wake up this morning.. opencart looks pretty nice.. looking at plausible for analytics and wondering how well they play together.. I can feel additional strain being added to one of my SBCs soon..

Just made a very spicy tofu dish and sat down in front of the TV with some very tasty home-brewed beer.. noticed a Danish detective programme and we immediately decided to watch it.. The Chestnut Man..

.. noticed some similarities with The Killing (original not US one) and figured that it’s the same writer.. according to themoviedb.org it is.. woohoo, result.. looking forward to this and subsequent series..