BrewBlog

Signing Out

The BrewBlog experiment has run its course and it's time to shelve it.  I've really enjoyed having this blog and blogging is something I recommend to anyone looking for a creative outlet.  After writing my wacky little autobiography, this blog was the perfect next thing for me to sink some energy into.  Now, 244 posts later, my need to write has waned.  With so many demands on my time, the nagging pressure to blog took the fun out of it.  Being a prolific blogger to a post a month blogger isn't going to work.  My recent little surge after an extended absence from blogging was my toe in the water and while I've reaffirmed that I like blogging, I've also learned that I don't want to blog anymore.  The little bit of head space and time that I'll recapture is small but still significant to me these days.  Bottom line is that I need to, need to do less.

I'm proud of BrewBlog and I'll miss the satisfaction of publishing.  The little high that comes with hitting "publish" is nice.  Seeking another creative "high" is inevitably in the future.  I'm sure I'll blog again in the future because it really is fun.  As for this content I've built here, I'll probably just export it and hold on to it to look at some day.  I hesitate to give up this service though because brewer.blogs.com is not going to be available and almost impossible to get, even when free it up.

So, thanks to all that ever read my blog!  Just for fun, I've compiled my 20 favorite BrewBlog posts below, in no particular order.  Bye!

1. Hotel Blues
2. Your job is not your girlfriend
3. Ready Pay
4. I Can't Understand You!
5. Ten tips to protect your privacy
6. Ten reasons why my cat is a bigger pain in the ass than yours
7. Mobile Phone Rules
8. The Javanilla is Popular
9. We make a lot of cereal here!!!! (Most viewed post by far)
10. Annoying Lady
11. Side of beef with your meds?
12. Workout Do's and Don'ts
13. Redistribution of Wealth, Taxes, and Health Care
14. Reserve the Right to Refuse (Part 1); Reserve the Right to Refuse (Part 2)
15. Your Services Are No Longer Required
16. Driving Tip
17. Era of Irresponsibility
18. Those mobile phone sales guys in the mall
19. What's in a Tip?
20. Stupider

Bed Bug Registry - Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite!

A Bed Bug Registry has been set up as a public database of bedbug infestations.  For instance, the Gateway Inn hotel in San Francisco (438 O'farrell St) had a reported infestation a few weeks ago.  There were 133 reported infestations within 1 mile of that hotel!!!  You can use this registry to see if a hotel you are considering staying at has or may have bed bugs.  We just returned from a stay in SF and I just checked the hotel we stayed at and it has no reported infestations.

Apparently, bed bugs are becoming a bigger and bigger problem in many parts of the world.  These disgusting little bastards are wreaking havoc all over!  Bed bugs are nasty little bugs that survive by sucking your blood and typically live in mattresses, sofas or other cushy furniture.  Because they are typically active at night, they prey on you after you've already starting sawing logs.  Recent, drastic increases of bed bug numbers are believed to be partially due to the ban and reduction of spraying with residual insecticides and other liquid sprays that were being used to control cockroaches.  The advent of cockroach bait led to the end of the spraying and subsequent rise in bed bugs.  If you want more information the Wikipedia entry of bed bugs is interesting.

Ick.