One of my favorite on-line toys has had an update. Multibabel now includes Japanese, Korean, and Chinese in the mix when mis-translating things. With this added functionalaity, the common phrase, “Do you have any fruit to declare?” changes from this:
You make the examinación that is explains to her fruit?
to this…
Takes frutte, that one that eats the communication?
An obvious improvement…
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Monday turned into a wine work day. I got the blueberry and cranberry wine racked into new carboys and added finings to the blueberry. The blueberry will be ready for bottling in two weeks or so. I had a little taste of each of them as I was doing the siphon, and they’re both really tasty. I also ordered some supplies, like a bottle tree and a couple more sets of two-part finings. I checked on E. C. Kraus and Homebrew Heaven for what I was after and found that despite their lousy website design, Homebrew Heaven had better prices and more selection, including the really handy auto-shutoff bottle filler.
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So, the big bathroom project weekend has been and gone and didn’t go exactly as planned. Shockingly little actual bathroom work was done, mostly due to the near-continual rain, but a lot of other projects got finished. Normally, rain isn’t that much of a deterrent to an indoor remodeling project, but I’ve got the drywall and everything stored out in the garage. It was so absolutely disgusting on Friday that the drywall would have turned into extremely soggy wall in the few seconds it took to make the trip from the garage to the house.
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