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	<title>Vagabond Chronicles</title>
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		<title>Dual Sport Class in Clear Creek</title>
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		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2010/07/dual-sport-class-in-clear-creek/</link>
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		<title>Nothing new, just busy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work and life have been too busy. Lots of home projects, visiting family and friends and just not enough time to do much of anything. Wondering what I should do with Paulsboutique.com&#8230; Sell the domain? But I would hate to lose my email address of 15 years. Open for suggestions&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2010/06/nothing-new/</link>
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		<title>Honeymoon in Maui.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a great weekend of family and friends, Miriam and Paul headed back to Maui for their honeymoon. Thanks to everyone who made it to the party and helped us celebrate our marriage. We spent the week snorkeling along the west coast of Maui, relaxing poolside and hiking on Haleakala.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2010/03/honeymoon-in-maui/</link>
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		<title>We bought a garage!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house came attached! Located in the Sunnyside neighborhood in San Francisco. Close to Bart/Muni/highways and downtown will make our work commutes very easy. There is a decent sized backyard that is fully landscaped. The garage is unfinished, but has enough room for two cars (or one car, two bikes and a brewery), some storage and a laundry area. (sorry for the duplicate image, wordpress/theme issue) Our offer was accepted, and now the fun begins. Housewarming coming soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2010/02/our-house/</link>
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		<title>Mini-mash IPA with Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time flies. Just doesn&#8217;t seem to be enough time these days. There was a hiccup with the kegerator &#8211; ok I might have broken it while trying to knock some frost off. I was hoping that I could have enjoyed the Pliny clone a little longer, but I was very happy with the results. The Chocolate-Orange Porter is getting better with age, and the American Brown Ale is almost gone. The Brown Ale took a very long time to carbonate. It didn&#8217;t really show any signs of carbonation for almost two weeks. I need to make sure that the beers are ready before I give them away. I have trying to challenge myself with each batch and refine my methods. I want to move into all-grain brewing, but I really could use some more equipment. After yesterday&#8217;s mini-mash experiment, I could see having a few extra containers would help. I also learned that the mash retains heat very well &#8211; even outside. The next purchase will be an 8 gal brew pot and wort chiller. The bathtub/sink cooling process is taking too long. With the larger pot, I can do full boil brewing and be able to bring the temp [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2010/02/mini-mash-ipa/</link>
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		<title>Pliny the Elder &#8211; Double IPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Thanksgiving clean-up, I picked up a new beer to brew. I picked up the Pliny the Elder &#8211; Double IPA kit from more beer on Friday. This aggressively hopped beer made the house smell like a brewery with its 90 minute boil and loads and loads of hops. Hops in the mash. Hops in the boil. Dry hopping down the road. On Saturday, I picked up a bottle of Pliny the Elder. Quite good. I am interested in seeing how my turns out. This should be ready in a few more weeks and it will be my first keg beer. Tonight, I am bottling my holiday porter, which will be ready on Christmas Day. I&#8217;ll have a post Christmas beer tasting afternoon with some BBQ action. Let me know if you are interested. I expect to have the porter and Pliny the Elder ready for consumption by then. Some quick links to the brew kits from MoreBeer.com: Pliny the Elder: Extract Kit All Grain]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2009/11/pliny-the-elder-double-ipa/</link>
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		<title>Lawnmower Ale and Holiday Porter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I finish the first batch of beer, which hasn&#8217;t killed anyone, I have two additional batches rolling. The second batch, Lawnmower Ale, was racked to secondary fermentation without any issues, though, the yeast was very active and Kraeusen blew out of the airlock. I have decided to switch to a two-piece airlock that will be easier to clean. The Lawnmower is a golden colored ale, but we have to wait until it hits the glass to be sure. Lawnmower Ale will be ready to drink on 16-November. After flipping through the Joy of Homebrewing searching for my next recipe, I decided to go with one that was delivered to my inbox, Griz&#8217;s Chocolate-Orange Porter. A quick trip to Brewcraft for supplies, and I would be ready to brew. I had to make an additional stop at Whole Foods and the liquor store for a couple of organic oranges for zest and a bottle of Godiva Chocolate Liquor for the chocolate flavor. I am wondering what kind of punch the booze will add to the beer. This recipe used loads of grains, and I was able to use a new partial mash technique that included lautering and sparging. Lautering is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2009/11/lawnmower-ale-and-holiday-porter/</link>
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		<title>Trip to Maui, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We swam out to the sea turtle cleaning station, and I still don&#8217;t know what exactly this means. The tide was starting to come in and it made the swim a little tougher. We swim to the buoy where the cleaning station is supposed to be. After a 30 minute swim, we see nothing. Swim around the area, nothing. Disappointed, we start to head back to the beach. A couple of minutes later, I practically swim straight into a giant sea turtle. While snorkeling, you have a tenancy to always look mostly down. I was not expecting the turtle to be hanging out at the surface &#8211; makes sense, being an air breathing animal like ourselves. The turtle&#8217;s moves were slow but deliberate. As the turtle scanned the ocean floor and reefs, dozens of fish emerged. The fish seemed to be inquisitive and checking out the foreign intruders in their environment. Again, like swimming in an aquarium. We were running out of energy and headed back to shore. We tried to check out the first reef again, but the tide was starting to come in and the wind was picking up. The choppy water made it difficult to breath through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2009/10/hawaii-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Trip to Maui, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the sunrise trip to the top of the Volcano, we headed back down the long winding road to sea-level. We passed a few groups of bicyclists, who watched the sunrise then use beach cruisers with great brakes to coast 10,000 ft down to sea-level. We had a Jeep. Upon reaching the coast, we pulled over to warm up a bit and to put down the top. Mind you, the weather reports were calling for rain, and we had just stood on the top of a Volcano in a rain cloud; we were compelled to the put the top down on the Jeep. Wasn&#8217;t too big of a deal, and the sun felt good. Twenty minutes down the road, it starts to rain. It will pass. Continue driving, and it is starting to rain harder. It will pass. Continue driving, but the windshield wipers stopped working! Crap! No windshield wipers are working, just not on the inside of the windshield.  Must pullover and put the top up.  We had to read the manual to get the top down, and now we had to try putting it back up. After a few minutes of straining, cursing and having a nice, natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulsboutique.com/garage/2009/10/trip-to-maui-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Trip to Maui, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe that it has been over a week to get the Maui visit up on the site. Needless to say, life since the trip has been crazy with work and lots of planing. Thursday we headed to Maui for a long weekend. After our trip to Iceland and London, we were stuck on the runway close to four hours. United gave us each a $250 certificate towards a future flight. Since I thought it was a mistake, I thought we should use it. Originally, we were planning on weekend get-away, I thought, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been to Hawaii, Miriam hasn&#8217;t been to Hawaii. Let&#8217;s go to Hawaii!&#8221; It didn&#8217;t take a lot of convincing to make it a four day weekend get-away. Trip planning was way too easy. Then two weeks ago, the hotel announced that it was being foreclosed. Ah, but I prepaid for the room. This could be disastrous. A week later, the bank found a new management company, and the hotel remained open. Prepaying for the hotel saved us a load of money. Wanting to make this a special trip, I really wanted an Ocean view, which adds to the cost of the room dramatically. Less [...]]]></description>
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