OT - Grumpy Old Man Thread

[FearlessF]

hah, since it's a rainy day, won't be driving the vette for a couple daze

[utee94]

hah, since it's a rainy day, won't be driving the vette for a couple daze

You sure? Could be fun!

[FearlessF]

could be fun but,........ I'm sure

[Brutus Buckeye]

You could do some pretty mean donuts. 

[CatsbyAZ]

I must say that for as much as my Millennial Generation likes to rip on our parent's Boomer Generation, all credit to Boomer men for having mature interests: golfing, wineries, classic rock, country clubs, breweries, yacht clubs, motorbikes, traveling Europe, tailgating, rifles…

Now take the accepted interests of my generation. The guy in the picture below is roughly my age – a millennial who is a few years older than myself. Lately he’s been crashing out about himself on his YouTube channel, and without labeling it so, hitting a mid-life crisis. His wife hasn’t left him, but she flies off to so many yoga retreats in the Tampa area that everybody wonders the obvious: whether it’s all a cover for her finding a new man.

So how is this guy coping with his mid-life crisis? Buying a sports car? Carrying on an affair with a waitress at a country club? Signing up for a Blue Origin flight? Surfing?

He’s dropping thousands of dollars on Pokemon and Magic the Gathering cards, hoping to find rare cards while he films himself unboxing the latest decks of cards he’s bought:

[jgvol]

I must say that for as much as my Millennial Generation likes to rip on our parent's Boomer Generation, all credit to Boomer men for having mature interests: golfing, wineries, classic rock, country clubs, breweries, yacht clubs, motorbikes, traveling Europe, tailgating, rifles…

Now take the accepted interests of my generation. The guy in the picture below is roughly my age – a millennial who is a few years older than myself. Lately he’s been crashing out about himself on his YouTube channel, and without labeling it so, hitting a mid-life crisis. His wife hasn’t left him, but she flies off to so many yoga retreats in the Tampa area that everybody wonders the obvious: whether it’s all a cover for her finding a new man.

So how is this guy coping with his mid-life crisis? Buying a sports car? Carrying on an affair with a waitress at a country club? Signing up for a Blue Origin flight? Surfing?

He’s dropping thousands of dollars on Pokemon and Magic the Gathering cards, hoping to find rare cards while he films himself unboxing the latest decks of cards he’s bought:

Is that the douche' that runs "The Quartering"?  

[betarhoalphadelta]

So I brewed a roggenbier on Sunday. A roggenbier is a rye beer that is brewed with a hefeweizen yeast, so while it's not a hefeweizen (b/c it uses rye instead of wheat) I've often called my a heferyezen... 

All was well. Got everything chilled to pitch the yeast. Yesterday I could hear the airlock bubbling away... And not just bubbling away, it was staccato like machine gun fire... Clearly the fermentation was kicking ass. 

Well...

I wake up this morning and go out into the garage and thought it odd that I couldn't hear the airlock. And then realized that there was a big area of wet floor between the fermentation fridge and the garage door. And thought... "WTF happened? Did the blowoff go out the blowoff tube and leak?"

Nope. Apparently something got plugged up and the pressure of the CO2 building up, pushed my fermenting beer right out of the fermenter through the racking cane. So I had a fridge full of spilled beer, a floor full of spilled beer, and a nearly-empty fermenter. 

So 5ish hours of work on Sunday (in a hot garage), all the cost of ingredients, and a mess I spent this morning cleaning up, and I've got nothing to show for it. 

[Cincydawg]

Shucks.

[SFBadger96]

Oof. And now you'll have to bring all that charm to parties, instead of beer.