This is how I live.....

I made it to work today and just don't feel like working. As usual, the teacher next to me gave me tons to do as soon as I walked in the door, but I did what all great great people do--pushed the work aside and started surfing the net. I mentioned before that I am going to KY in slightly over a month. I know that it doesn't have much to do with beer in Japan, but I thought I would give you all an insight into how a Good Beer Country Boy lives at home.
The first thing that you must know is that beer must be on (in) hand at all times. This is a must for country folk. To make sure we abide by this unspoken law, of course we have a keg-erator in our apartment, and at the time of this pic it was stocked with Kentucky Ale. I highly recommend any serious beer connoisseur have beer on tap at home. I think it is one way that we show our freedom. Many people don't know that Thomas Jefferson wanted to add the tag, "and have draught beer at home" at the end of the second amendment. However, he was voted down because the other fore-fathers thought that it would create confusion and was not written clearly enough to be interpreted by all people. What a shame!
The next thing you must know is that any lover of beer should be able to make the stuff his/her self. It really doesn't matter if your beer tastes like crap, it's the effort that counts. I will add that the Belgian style beer being racked into the secondary fermentor shown in the pic was not crappy, but was quite tasty. We have brought our love for making fine brew to Japan, and this weekend plan on brewing up a few batches of Christmasie goodness!
The last thing that we do is just enjoy life. No one knows how to appreciate life like people in Kentucky. We work hard, and relax even harder. This is a pic of my good buddy Ryan and I doing a little Bluegrass pickin' on Christmas morning at Pratt's house. Anytime you can start the day pickin' the strings with good friends, you know you are in for a good one...
I'm missing home so I'm going to quit. Be sure to check back in soon as I will be posting an in depth review of XH beer, and introducing you to Charlie Mops--probably the greatest person to have ever lived in the history of the world.