Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Tip: Fighting Foam

To avoid excess foam when pouring soda into a glass, pour slowly enough so that air can flow into the bottle even as the soda pours out. If you pour too fast, the bottle "gulps", alternating between soda going out and air coming in. This turbulence stirs up the carbonation, causing foam.

When pouring beer, tip the glass and pour the beer on the side so it flows gently to the bottom without falling too far. Again, this is to avoid foam-generating turbulence.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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