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Notes on the creation of Drinking Buddy.

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Godammit, that's the third set of gasket seals it's blown this week. The whole damn thing is full of mash water again. The first batch always works like a charm, but if you have to pop the chassis open every couple day to replace the gaskets no one is gonna want to buy one of these things. Hm... I wonder if the cultures are retaining more heat due to the flash fermentation process? That extra heat could be what is causing the problem.

I reworked the design to move the thermal exchanger so the coils wrap around the bottling siphon and that seems to have done the trick. Not only are the gaskets not melting, but it also cools the beer as bottles it. Ice cold, every time!

One of my patrons also gave me a lead on a possible investor. Jack West, the manager over at the Hotel Rexford apparently just came into an inheritance and he could front the cash I need to get the Drinking Buddy into full production. He's agreed to my terms if I let him run the prototype at the hotel for a month to drum up additional press.

Mr. West has run into a slight problem in that the hotel is contractually obligated to only serve Gwinnett beer, so I can't use my own recipes. Luckily I know a guy, who knows a guy who has cracked the encryption on their proprietary brewing holotapes, so we've put that code into the subroutines for now. It's risky if Gwinnett's lawyers catch wind, but hopefully it's just a stop gap until we can get into production or work something out with them.

West is really starting to get on my nerve. First it's the hang up with the recipes, now he says the Drinking Buddy looks to impersonal. Impersonal! What a pompous ass! I told him that with the brewing vat there is no room for the servos needed to simulate a face and that idiot asked me to just put some gauges on the front like they were eyes. I'm just going to deliver it to the theater during the intermission on Friday and he'll just have to get over it.

Hm, getting it to the Rexford may be tricky. The body could probably take a direct hit from a truck, but the leg servos on those protectrons are wicked slow. Maybe I'd better rent a truck...

I'll stash the bootup password here in the basement till I get the delivery sorted out.

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