New hobby... Academy Awards

So I bought a Beer making kit Friday and attempted my first home brew. I have been a big fan of micro and hand crafted beers for quite some time now. I thought it was time to put my hand in to trying to make some. I bought a set kit made by Brewers Best. I figured that would be the best way to learn since the kits have everything you need in them, malts, yeast hops, ect.. They are supposed to be easy and self explanatory. The instructions where pretty easy. We shall see today was day 3 of my fermentation process so ill have to check on it. I still have a few weeks till it drinkable. I hope it works out well. We shall see..

So the oscars where last night. This was the first year I can say I saw every nominated best picture and most of the other major nominees in the major categories. Here are my picks for the 9 major categories as compared to winners (underlined ones I got wrong):


Best Picture THE AVIATOR winner was MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Best Actor Jamie Foxx
Best Actress Hilary Swank
Best Supporting Actor Alan Alda winner was Morgan Freeman
Best Supporting Actress Cate Blanchett
Best Director Clint Eastwood
Best Foreign Film THE SEA INSIDE
Best Original Screenplay ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Best Adapted Screenplay SIDEWAYS

So 7 of 9 not bad. I'll have to see if I do better next year. Lots of movies to see . And who was that tall ass women giving the statues to people (only person taller then her was Tim Robbins)? and what was with them giving oscars in the crowd? Not sure what that was all about.