{"id":1522,"date":"2008-11-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2008-11-23T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T08:30:00","slug":"a-sunday-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/23\/a-sunday-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday In November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures have dropped here in eastern Kansas, off the Missouri and Platte Rivers.  Morning temps are getting down to the high teens but we&#8217;ve had generally clear skies &#8211; so no snow yet.<\/p>\n<p>Been having a problem with my Toyota Tundra.  I had the shocks replaced about two months ago, but I am still having a suspension issues.  Often when I drive over uneven pavement I hear a type of popping or low banging.  I&#8217;m dropping the truck off tomorrow morning at a garage in town and I hope they identify and fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I popped the first cap on the KC Ale this past Thursday.  One word: Tasty!  I was so happy with the results that I brought in a 12-pack to distribute to my small group at CGSC.  We will see what kind of feed back I get tomorrow.  The KC Ale batch has a great  cooper color, medium head, slight hoppy aroma.  The taste is crisp and smooth, no off-flavors.   <\/p>\n<p>The California Common batch went into secondary fermentation last Tuesday (18 NOV).  I&#8217;ll try to get it bottled up this coming Wednesday (26 NOV).  Then it should be ready for a first by 11 DEC&#8230; a good day to celebrate my last night class for this term.<\/p>\n<p>While the CGSC program here at Fort Leavenworth is considered a Masters-level program, it does not award a degree at graduation (unlike the Navy&#8217;s program in Monterey or the Air Force in Alabama).  Therefore, in order to get a masters, I signed up to take two night classes a week and then by graduation I&#8217;ll get the degree.  It is a bit of pain now, but this is really the <i>only<\/i> opportunity I am going to get to earn a master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>Back to beer: I need to get crackin&#8217; and cook up the batch of Raspberry Wheat.  If I am able to get it into primary fermentation today, I should be able to hit secondary fermentation by next Sunday (30 NOV) and then bottle by 14 DEC.  It should be nice and tasty by New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>I need to put together a sample pack for my Team Jedi brethren (Team Jedi are the fine folks I spent my last year in Iraq with).  So it looks like the pack will consist of ESB, KC Ale, California Common, and the Raspberry Wheat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also had a request from the 7-land Inbound QSL Bureau back in Oregon.  I received an email from Marc, NC7M, who let me know I had 200+ QSL cards headed my way.  I need to also replenish my postal funds for the bureau.  And next week &#8211; I will answer all the YI9MI QSL card request that I have&#8230; which is quite a significant pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures have dropped here in eastern Kansas, off the Missouri and Platte Rivers. Morning temps are getting down to the high teens but we&#8217;ve had generally clear skies &#8211; so no snow yet. Been having a problem with my Toyota Tundra. I had the shocks replaced about two months ago, but I am still having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/23\/a-sunday-in-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sunday In November&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,11],"tags":[43,55,199,259],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-beer","category-radio","tag-beer","tag-cgsc","tag-qsl-cards","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-oy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}