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Compared to the world of Geography selling wine IS exciting - I've been mapping for 10 years and I often dream of being back tending bar in college..... ah, the good ol days.
jen, i love that you work for the cops and just mentioned in a different thread that you were making applejack. you, my dear friend, ROCK.
Thanks so much for pointing out that I MIGHT be engaged in some sort of grey area criminality...
(but I dont think it's illegal) Cider can can be defined (pursuant Title 27 USC) as wine, and per Title 27 USC § 5.11 "...The term “distilled spirits” shall not include mixtures containing wine, bottled at 48 degrees of proof or less,"
I dont think the stuff is more than 48 proof...
That should take care of mens rea 
Wow, what a varied, but educated and erudite, bunch you are here.
I'm a software engineer at a major health insurance company. I work mostly in .NET (vb and c#) on a web-based claim management system with an Oracle database. I started the job 6 years ago with a small software shop and we kept getting bought by larger and larger companies until I found myself, somewhat bewildered, working for this massive corporation. It's a different world for sure.
I looked into opening a small brewery or brewpub last year with some friends. (My wife suggested we call it Fartin' Grandma, after her pet name for my primary fermenter; I doubt the market would have approved). After a lot of research and writing a business plan, we shelved the project. I live in Portland Maine, where I am told we have the most breweries and brewpubs per capita than anywhere else in the country. Portland's population is like 68,000 and right here in town we have 4 or 5 major craft breweries (Shipyard, Geary's, Gritty McDuff's, Allagash) with another bunch of regionals within a hundred miles (Sebago, Sea Dog, Sheepscot, Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Stone Coast, Andrew's, Casco Bay, etc). So the local market is pretty much saturated.
I don't measure blood splatter patterns but I do ride a bike, or at least I'm learning. I'm buying a Kawasaki Ninja 250 from a friend as a starter bike this spring.
I'm really glad I discovered this place. You guys are amazing.
Computer Network Engineer all up in this place. I do everything from Active Directory and Exchange to Linux and firewalls/routers/switches. Been doing some SAN and VMWare lately which has been a fun technology.
I also enjoy cooking quite a bit and got quite obsessed with that a few years back kind of like how I am with brewing now. 
rhino777 wrote:
Computer Network Engineer all up in this place. I do everything from Active Directory and Exchange to Linux and firewalls/routers/switches. Been doing some SAN and VMWare lately which has been a fun technology.
I also enjoy cooking quite a bit and got quite obsessed with that a few years back kind of like how I am with brewing now.
Did DST drive you crazy too....or is just my place and our BES?
(I love patches!!)
I work as a System Admin for a university in the north west. Basically I install windows XP all day and help users use computers. I went to school for a B.S. in non-western history and am a certified massage therapist. My main hobby used to be reading Sci/Fi but its now home brewing. Thankfully, since i work for a university, I get to take classes for real cheap so i'm going to take some microbiology courses and the new fermentation course being offered here.
Its pretty interesting to see how diverse everyone here is!
Lee wrote:
I'm really glad I discovered this place. You guys are amazing.
What a nice thing to say about us, but your job is WAY over my head... I just can't seem to comprehend the how's and why's of computers... for me they're like the microwave... I dont know how it works, just how to work it, LOL. (and my poor husband has tried to explain to me, repeatedly, how the thing works, but I just don't get it.) (I dont understand how a radio works, either...my theory for both devices - and many others - is magic and pixies)
I work for a marketing agency in Chicago. We concentrate on designing marketing campaigns/materials for companies in the life sciences industry...which we describe as any company providing products/services based on chemistry or biology.
Given the clients I work with, science is near and dear to me. That is one of the things that I particularly enjoy about brewing. The fermentation process is used to create some amazing vaccines and antibiotics...but the whole process began with people making beer hundreds of years ago.
Brewchez and Vinyalwhl...if your companies need some marketing help...I'm your guy!
I am an Outside Account Manager (Sales Guy) for a major EDA software company (Electronic Design Automation) here in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, home of the AHA I might add.
The brewing addiction is to take my mind off quota attainment....