Joe has another winning beer! His altbier ranked third in its category for the Great Lakes region of the American Homebrewer Association's: National Homebrew Competition. That's good enough to enter him into the finals for the National Homebrew Competition again this June in Baltimore. Click here to see the results for the first round. His result is under the Great Lakes, Category 7 (Amber hybrid beer). Oh yeah...my name is listed there too.
Unfortunately, his other two beers did not rank--Chocolate Stout & Irish Red Ale. Oh well. However, Joe is extremely happy with the results of the competition and was looking forward to getting the judges' feedback on his beers more than anything else.
I think that some guys entered about 20 different beers in the regional competition because they placed so many times...sometimes more than once in the same category. Sheesh...get a life. Joe said that he never would have been able to brew as much as these guys. And if you've ever been around Joe when he's brewing, you know that it's an all day event...cleaning, boiling water, mashing, boiling the wort, adding hops and boiling some more, sanitizing the fermenting equipment, cooling the wort, putting it in the fermenter, aerating the fermenter, adding the starter batch of yeast (which would have been another couple hours one or two nights prior), and then cleaning up all the equipment again. Perhaps some of these guys have those $5000+ brewing structures and they magically clean and sanitize themselves.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Rachel: aka Vicar
Anybody else scared about the amount of "godly" power I will have?
This is an NCLEX (nursing board exam) review question I answered today:
A minister is scheduled to visit a patient who has requested Baptism because the patient is dying. At 10:00 am, the nurse, who is not Catholic, assesses that death is imminent for this client and the minister is not available at this time. The appropriate action for the nurse to take is to:
1. No action is necessary since the client's desire for Baptism is sufficient.
2. Perform the Baptism.
3. Obtain water so that the client may perform the Baptism.
4. Call for a Catholic nurse to baptize the client.
Any guesses to the answer??!
To my surprise, the answer was: #2-Perform the Baptism.
Here's the rationale given:
"The culturally sensitive nurse is familiar with the rite of Emergency Baptism". Oh well. I guess I'm not very culturally sensitive.
"If a client is in danger of death, any person, including the non-Catholic nurse, can perform an emergency Baptism". Really??!
"Emergency Baptism is performed by pouring a small amount of water on the client's head and reciting simultaneously, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.". ANY water? I always thought it had to be special water. Of course I'm Jewish, so what do I know...
"When done with the proper intent, the Catholic Church recognizes Baptism, by even an atheist or non-believer, as valid as Baptism given by a priest". Sweet.
They really don't teach you everything in nursing school. Although, if you heard anything about the "cultural diversity and competence" lecture I had this last semester in my Community Health Nursing course, you would understand completely.
This is an NCLEX (nursing board exam) review question I answered today:
A minister is scheduled to visit a patient who has requested Baptism because the patient is dying. At 10:00 am, the nurse, who is not Catholic, assesses that death is imminent for this client and the minister is not available at this time. The appropriate action for the nurse to take is to:
1. No action is necessary since the client's desire for Baptism is sufficient.
2. Perform the Baptism.
3. Obtain water so that the client may perform the Baptism.
4. Call for a Catholic nurse to baptize the client.
Any guesses to the answer??!
To my surprise, the answer was: #2-Perform the Baptism.
Here's the rationale given:
"The culturally sensitive nurse is familiar with the rite of Emergency Baptism". Oh well. I guess I'm not very culturally sensitive.
"If a client is in danger of death, any person, including the non-Catholic nurse, can perform an emergency Baptism". Really??!
"Emergency Baptism is performed by pouring a small amount of water on the client's head and reciting simultaneously, "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.". ANY water? I always thought it had to be special water. Of course I'm Jewish, so what do I know...
"When done with the proper intent, the Catholic Church recognizes Baptism, by even an atheist or non-believer, as valid as Baptism given by a priest". Sweet.
They really don't teach you everything in nursing school. Although, if you heard anything about the "cultural diversity and competence" lecture I had this last semester in my Community Health Nursing course, you would understand completely.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
So long and thanks for the fish.
I wish that song would get out of my head. If you've seen the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, you know what I'm talking about. Joe and I saw the movie yesterday. Not excellent, but still entertaining. It's been too long since I've read the book to remember how accurate it was or what was left out. Although, Joe did remind me of parts that were in the book (and the computer game...the OLD floppy disk game). For example, the part where Arthur has to confront some stupid monster and he can get past it by placing the towel over his head.
Our wonderful, adventurous Linda came and spent the night at our house last night. She's taking off for the Smokey Mountains next week to do algae research for her masters program. Since some of her research includes hauling some pretty heavy duty experiment equipment down a river and up a trail, her advisor suggested she try to rent a llama. I guess there are a lot of available llamas in the area. Just the idea of loading a llama on to a boat and trucking it down the river is fantastic and hilarious. Of course she's promised to send photos if and when this occurs.
Our wonderful, adventurous Linda came and spent the night at our house last night. She's taking off for the Smokey Mountains next week to do algae research for her masters program. Since some of her research includes hauling some pretty heavy duty experiment equipment down a river and up a trail, her advisor suggested she try to rent a llama. I guess there are a lot of available llamas in the area. Just the idea of loading a llama on to a boat and trucking it down the river is fantastic and hilarious. Of course she's promised to send photos if and when this occurs.
Graduation Day!
No, this isn't from my graduation. (Although I did officially graduate yesterday...I celebrated by going to a baby shower instead) But, Chris (Joe's lil' bro) graduated on April 23rd from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI) with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and English. Congrats to Chris! He's soon off to Europe on a month long expedition.
Chris, Anne & Don
Celebratin at the Food Dance Cafe in Kalamazoo. This is a restaurant that emphasizes the use of locally grown food. Highly recommended.
Chris, Joe, & Don
Chris, Anne & Don
Celebratin at the Food Dance Cafe in Kalamazoo. This is a restaurant that emphasizes the use of locally grown food. Highly recommended.
Chris, Joe, & Don
Megan & Jason's Baby Shower
Grandma Betsy and Elizabeth
Originally uploaded by RachelSuzieRN.
Here are some photos from the April 30th baby shower for Megan & Jason at Red Run Country Club. Click on the photo to go to the website and see all of the photos from the day. You can view the whole set as a slide show too. This is a really cute photo of Grandma Betsy (Anne's mom) and Elizabeth (Adam & Suzie's middle child). Unfortunately, I can't take credit for the photo. Anne and her friend Elizabeth helped take the photos with my camera while I wrote down the presents during the gift opening.
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