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It's Monday morning again. I didn't have the ability to leave the apartment over the weekend, though not for lack of wanting. On Friday night some very pressing medical issues with a dear friend caused me to have just about the poorest night of sleep I've had while I wasn't in college. I was up every hour, sometimes every half hour, to check on their wellbeing before attempting to go back to sleep. When I finally got up on Saturday morning, I was so sore that I had to take a very hot bath just to make it to a sitting position on the couch. My dreams of hitting the homebrew store were dashed, and so were my hopes of going to the Tokyo fish market. That's alright. It was important.
Yesterday was even more strange: I was in the middle of washing the dishes when the sink started to back up. Like really back up. Back up so badly that the only way to get water to go down was to run the disposal, and even then it would all vomit back up again. We took the sink apart only find out that the blockage was more than ten feet behind the wall (after busting into the garbage disposal to rule it out). After putting everything back together, the pipe shoved into another pipe with absolutely no fitting started leaking like a sieve when introduced to water. Plumber was called and could not make it out until this morning. As a result, we had delivery pizza for dinner. Finished up The Last of Us for Josie, then she and I made pudding cookies reminiscent of our time at Berkeley, the infamous "You're a cold bitch!" cookies. No brewing over the weekend for me. Oh, well. I can always go to the homebrew supply store next weekend, and the weather will be fine again.
First, I have to get through this week. Ugh, this week is going to be terrible. I have a string of 10-12 hour days ahead of me, and I'm praying that today won't be one of them. I am back on the manufacturing floor today, the first in a long string of Monday mornings to be spent out here. I got out of the habit during the audit, as I got out of the habit of doing quite a lot of things. I will be going back to spending Monday mornings out here. Tonight I will do my best to swim, as the summer hours at the rec. center are quickly coming to and end.
I have high hopes that I will feel fine this coming weekend. Additionally, I'm not totally positive, but I think I would like to brave the crowds and terrible parking situation in Berkeley to eat at Cafe M. I have no idea whether or not this is actually possible, and I will see how I feel come the weekend. Oh, fabulous crab cake benedict. You make me do dumb things. Why are you so delicious?
This weekend, if I can make it to the homebrew supply, I am going to try my hand at my very first wheat beer, an apricot ale for Josie and the tail end of what is trying to be summer around here. I have to clean out the stores in preparation of making a huge batch of pumpkin ale, and then the brickwarmer to be ready around Christmas. I love brewing, and its one of the few hobbies that I actively engage in that brings me that much joy. Cooking and sewing would probably be the other two.