IPA Season

Is here, but I drink it year round anyway. It is nice to see new IPAs popping up at the Draught though. They have Inversion, Stone, Torpedo, and Racer 5 on atm. Some others too, but I don't need those when I have these and Hop Rod Rye. For me, it doesn't get any better than a well hopped beer.

We will very soon see if the measures I have taken with my house to conserve power are effective. Here in Austin we are going to be in or around the 90s. I put solar screens on most of the west facing windows, and I am taking advantage of the weather to dry my clothes - windy and sunny. Jettisoning my overly long couch guest will doubtless help this as well. That is another whole topic entirely, though.

Which I will go into here. My advice is to never let someone stay on your couch for more than a week or two at a time, or best, they can crash one night when they are too drunk to drive home. I let my situation linger for quite some time, mainly because I needed the extra money. Now I have a couch with a broken spring in the middle, and a friendship that is a bit rocky to say the least. Just because you stay on someone's couch for a nominal amount of money does not in any way mean that the living room is your room. Stay out of their way, don't camp out all day when you are not working. It's the quickest way to piss someone off. And make damn sure you don't sleep in someone's bed if they are out of town without even asking.

/end rant