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I love this artwork!

Corcoran Family Summer schedule

With summer almost here its time to start planning our summer vacations. Noah will be gone between June 21st and late July. Kay-la is heading off to Job Corps soon up in Seattle. So, that means that we have some time this summer to go camping, or day tripping. If you are coming into town this summer, or taking a vacation let me know so that we might be able to meet up.


Jenn is working in a new positon and won't be able to take vacation until this fall so that rules out anything longer then a weekend for her, but I plan to attend the Oregon Beer Fest in late July in Portland. We are also working on a weekend coast trip.

Snow Day

Ashland got 10 inches of snow over the last 24 hours! Needless to say, everywhere is closed including work. We are going to spend the day curled up in front of the new big screen tv and playing video games.

Wish List for Chris’s Birthday/Christmas/Just ‘cause:

In no specific order

Beer making stuff:

• Temperature control unit (http://morebeer.com/view_product/16663/102282) $54
• Chest freezer
• Brewing Kits (http://morebeer.com/search/102177) $30-$45
• Aeration system (http://morebeer.com/view_product/16607/102281) $32
• 6.5 gallon glass carboys (Hermans) 34$
• 5 gallon kegs (Hermans or www.morebeer.com) approx $35
• Carboy caps 6.5 gallon (2) and 5 gallon (2) (http://morebeer.com/search/102269) $3
• Carboy drainer (http://morebeer.com/view_product/15773/102269) $7
• Erlenmeyer Flask (1000 ml) http://morebeer.com/view_product/19890/102367 $10
• Stir plate http://morebeer.com/view_product/19911/102367 $114
• Gas Manifold 2/3/4 way (http://morebeer.com/search/102238) $27 to $47
• Bonnet Angler (http://morebeer.com/view_product/16272) $12.50

Books:

• How to Brew, by John Palmer
• Designing Great Beers
• Beer Captured
• Radical Brewing
• Brew like a Monk
• Clone Brews

Electronics:

• HD switcher box for the tv
• Itunes Gift Certificate
• Video Games, Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band
• Computer Hard Drive

Other Stuff:

• Gift Certificates
• T-shirts
• AHA (American Home brewer Association) Membership
• Beer of the month club
• MoreBeer’s Kit of the month club (www.morebeer.com)
• New Boots
• Quality Dress Shoes (that don’t squeak!)
• Chair Massager
• Beer Glassware (pilsner, goblet, stein, English Imperial pint, Samuel Adams Perfect pint glass)

Fall 2007 Premier dates

Here is a list of permier dates for the fall 2007 lineup. This is from TVSquad, I love that website! As a side note here is a short list of the show I can't wait to see!
Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Lost, BSG, Bionic Woman, Dirty Sexy Money, and Heros.

August 22nd

• ANCHORWOMAN (FOX) (Premiered and canceled on the same day!)
  

September 6th

• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (FOX)

September 8th

• Cops (FOX) -- Starting its 500th season
• America's Most Wanted (FOX)

September 11th

• The Biggest Loser (NBC)

September 14th

• NASHVILLE (FOX)

September 15th

• MADtv (FOX)
• Talkshow with Spike Feresten (FOX)

September 17th

• Deal or no Deal (NBC)
• Prison Break (FOX)
• K-VILLE (FOX)

September 18th

• Beauty and the Geek (CW) -- Two hour premiere

September 19th

• KID NATION (CBS)
• America's Next Top Model (CW)
• GOSSIP GIRL (CW)
• BACK TO YOU (FOX)
• Til' Death (FOX) -- No, seriously
• KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (FOX) -- This is the one where Gordon Ramsey is only slight less nasty than he is on Hell's Kitchen.

September 20th

• Survivor:China (CBS)

September 21st

• Friday Night Smackdown (CW) -- Oh, frabjous day!

September 23rd

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
• Cold Case (CBS)
• Shark (CBS) -- New time slot
• The Simpsons (FOX)
• King of the Hill (FOX)
• Family Guy (FOX) -- One hour premiere
• CW NOW (CW) -- Filler Show Number 1
• ONLINE NATION (CW) -- Filler Show Number 2

September 24th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) - 90 minute premiere
• The Bachelor (ABC) - 90 minute premiere
• How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
• THE BIG BANG THEORY (CBS)
• Two and a Half Men (CBS)
• Rules of Engagement (CBS)
• CSI:Miami (CBS)
• CHUCK (NBC)
• Heroes (NBC)
• JOURNEYMAN (NBC)

September 25th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) -- Perforance show
• Boston Legal (ABC) -- 90-minute premiere
• NCIS (CBS)
• The Unit (CBS)
• Bones (FOX) -- New Time
• House (FOX) -- With five new cast members!
• CANE (CBS) -- Now, this is a new show!
• REAPER (CW)
• The Singing Bee (NBC)
• Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

September 26th

• Dancing With the Stars (ABC) -- first results show at 'special' day and time
• PRIVATE PRACTICE (ABC)
• DIRTY SEXY MONEY (ABC)
• Criminal Minds (CBS) -- Sans Mandy Patinkin
• CSI:NY (CBS)
• Deal or no Deal (NBC) -- This is the Wednesday debut of the program
• BIONIC WOMAN (NBC)
• LIFE (NBC)
• Ghost Hunters (SciFi)

September 27th

• Ugly Betty (ABC)
• Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
• BIG SHOTS (ABC)
• CSI (CBS)
• Without a Trace (CBS)
• Smallville (CW)
• My Name is Earl (NBC) -- One hour season premiere
• The Office (NBC) -- One hour season premiere, and hour episodes for about a month
• ER (NBC) -- One hour seas . . . Oh, they are an hour show. Never mind.

September 28th

• Ghost Whisperer (CBS)
• MOONLIGHT (CBS) -- the show so nice, they renamed it twice. Or was it three times?
• Numb3rs (CBS)
• Deal or no Deal (NBC) -- Move to new time slot
• Las Vegas (NBC) -- Two hour season premiere
• Stargate: Atlantis (SciFi)

September 29th

• 48 Hours Mysteries (CBS) -- This is not an hourly series featuring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.

September 30th

• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) -- Two hour premiere. Can't they just rename the show Extreme Home Makeover or something and move along?
• Desperate Housewives (ABC)
• Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
• American Dad (FOX)

October 1st

• Everybody Hates Chris (CW)
• ALIENS IN AMERICA (CW)
• Girlfriends (CW)
• The Game (CW)

October 2nd

• CAVEMEN (ABC)
• CARPOOLERS (ABC)
• Dancing With the Stars Results Show (ABC) -- Regular time-slot premiere

October 3rd

• PUSHING DAISIES

October 4th

• Supernatural (CW)
• 30 Rock (NBC)

October 5th

• Friday Night Lights (NBC) -- New time slot

October 7th

• America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC) -- Shouldn't the show be called America's Funnites Home DVDs to stay with the times?
• LIFE IS WILD (CW)

October 12th

• 20/20 (ABC) -- New time slot
• WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB (ABC)
• Men In Trees (ABC) -- New time slot

October 15th

• Samantha Who? (ABC)

October 18th

• VIVA LAUGHLIN (CBS) -- Series preview

October 21st

• VIVA LAUGHLIN (CBS) -- Time slot premiere

October 25th

• Scrubs (NBC) -- One hour Office shows dominate the schedule through October; hence, the reason for this late season premiere.

November 27th

• CASHMERE MAFIA (ABC) -- Premieres after Dancing With the Stars finale

December 4th

• CASHMERE MAFIA (ABC) -- Regular time slot premiere

Ouch!

The Impossible Quiz

I have only gotten to question #33 after about 2 straight hours of play. Jenn sat down and tried this but gave up after 10 min. and question #22. How far can you get?

Save water, drink beer

I've been talking about it but I've finally done it. I spent Saturday afternoon brewing my first batch of beer. The most surprising thing about the whole experience is how easy it was. Now, if everything proceeds as planned then I should be able to drink my first home brewed beer in about 3 weeks.

Thats pretty neat, where can I get one?

Here is a list of pretty neat shops that I frequent rather often:

Newegg.com: They sell computer parts and a variety of electronics. Decent customer service and rock bottom prices.

ThinkGeek: These guys sell just about any geek gift you can think of from t-shirts with witty slogans on them to usb controlled missile launchers.

Cafepress: These guys offer the common man the chance to create thier own store with clothing that has unique user created slogans or emblems.

Before I leave for the day....

Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts

Here is a short list of some of my favorite podcasts (btw you don't need Itunes, nor even an Ipod to listen to podcasts. They are just like most other audio files....they can play on anything and there are tons of free and open source pod cast clients out there) If you are interested, just google the names and it shouldn't be too hard to find them. Well actually, I am just to lazy to grab their urls at the moment!

Buzz Out Loud: This is a 30-ish min daily about current tech news, very funny

Diggnation: Follows some of the weekly top stories from Digg.com (two funny and smart guys sitting around drinking beer and talking tech...great stuff)

TwiT: This Week In Tech is a weekly podcast that also follows top tech news and opinions, weekly guest panels full of great tech reports, insiders, and other smart people.

DL.TV: Once again, a tech related podcast often focusing on digital entertainment and other non-news related features.

Attack of the Tuesday!!

Grrr.......

In the mean time here are some links for your enjoyment:

Netvibes is a great news aggregation site/start page. It is highly customizable, one of the best web 2.0 sites out there.

Flickr is an amazing photo sharing site. Many great photographs can be found here. Also, you can sign up for flickr to host your photos for sharing (normal accounts are free). I find all my great desktop photos here.

Digg is a user driven news site. Users submit web articles and the community can vote on how whether or not they like the article. I can browse these pages for hours!