It’s Happy Hour!
Tumultuous merriment begins early!
10-cent wing night
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Dogs must be leashed or will be considered part of the kitchen staff.
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May the 4’s be with you
A civil rights movement reborn:
This is thrilling, no?
Awesome martini pic, SN! How thoughtful of you to have it all ready for me … hope that’s a blue cheese stuffed olive in there. Please don’t tell me that’s vodka or you’ll break my heart! 🙂
Of course it’s gin…right? Is that what it’s supposed to be?
Hendricks or Tanqueray 10 by preference… Blue Sapphire by default. Using a cheap gin in a martini is the best way to convince yourself that they’re awful! If you’re going to have one, you owe it to yourself to use a really quality gin to appreciate the drink.
Actually, for the picky purist types (like me), there really is no such thing as a vodka martini. The drink exists, yes, but it’s called a “Gibson” and is supposed to be garnished with a pearl onion. It was James Bond, I believe, who blurred the vodka/gin distinction so that both are now referred to as martinis. No offense to Bond, but he should have been drinking gin!
with a nice picture for the wall.
JimF Photo
And then some… Andi, you guys’ photos are awe-inspiring in the real, literal way. We’re really privileged to have such great “house photographers” around here. Can’t thank you enough for posting these… they often brighten my day or bring a smile to this ole curmudgeon.
Thanks. Buckskin Gulch a very wow place. And it’s about a nine-hour drive from Denver if you want to go take your own wow pictures.
I’m running out of adjectives, Andi. Just cool.
but, but, but we have hundreds more. (Memo to self: next Hanukkah, thesaurus for SN.)
splendiferous. comely. beauteous.
fat. righteous.
Magnificent!!!
No fair, you used a thesaurus! All I could do was stand there with mouth agape and say “cool.”
Lawn Update: I got the front, side and back cleaned up. Stopped for about and hour because a snake was coming toward the lawnmower and I decided he needed the lawn more than I did. Went back out and looked around the house and lawn for about 30 minutes until I was sure the snake was done with the lawn. Got the front lawn mowed then quit for the day. Tomorrow the back, weed eating and flower beds. Unless the snake decides the lawn is his for the day.
Do what my ex does. Find out if the snake is deadly and aggressive. If it is, poke it with a stick. They like that alot.
I have to much respect for them to do that. Whatever they want is fine with me as long as I’m not around.
Have a couple martinis and the go out and try to break the world’s record for dangerous snake kissing, which if I remember correctly from the news last week, is now 51.
When you’re done, you really should take some pictures so we can all ooh and aah over how beautiful your lawn is (and a picture of the snake would be nice, too).
The lawn can do. The snake – I even turn the channel when I see one on TV.
Isn’t that supposed to be ‘phat’?
I’m kinda partial to “it’s da bomb’.
I think ‘phat’ is more of an urban spelling. Both are correct, though banned in my house. That’s the real “F” word around here.
Next time I will have the eldest Nature Boy, who mixes $10 martinis for living, help me out with the drinks.
Yup, 51 times in 3 minutes… crazy guy! That cobra did not look too kissable to me!
Did you see that on KO’s “Oddball?”
Probably so. I thought it was funny that the previous record was like 11 and he felt he had to go all the way up to 51 to break it.
I saw a little of that and changed channels. How stupid can someone be? What next, shark kissing?
You know what’s worse? Ex kissing! Ewwwww! The thought chills me to the core.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Yeah we want photos damnit!
– Danni will come by and it pick up the snake for ya FM!
Welcome back Andi!!!
Hi DJ.
Danni and I have something in common (besides liking you whole bunches) — I like snakes too. My local favorite is the blue racer, a truly elegant snake.
Danni will pick up anything from the yard. She found a Southern Alligator Lizard.. those things are mean and nasty aka BITE but she was able to hoist it around.. of course we just thought it was a lizard… not a biter.
She’s a bug and beast magnet.
if I know they’re not the poisonous kind. Back in the day when I was partying my way out of San Jose State, I’d hang out in the bowling alley/game area in the basement of the student union — they had some great pinball games there. There was this one guy who’d show up with a HUMUNGOUS boa slung around his shoulders/upper body; I was the only girl who’d actually pet the snake, most wouldn’t even go near the machines when he was playing. We actually got to be pretty good competitors (me and the guy — the snake’s lack of hands made it tough to play pinball).
Ya know, Freud would probably find some interesting psychosexual meanings there… 😉
Hi Cali. You and Danni and Andi can have all the snakes around here. A few years ago the city was digging up a line that runs through the backyard. They hit a pocket of snakes and found 27 Water Moccasins.
That’s enough for me. 🙂
I can deal with garter snakes but if I had water moccasins in or near my back yard, I would probably never go outside.
Okay, I’ll grant that large numbers of poisonous snakes are scary. One time we uncovered the wood pile after it was covered all winter and found a nest of baby copperhead. We killed them all.
Our neighors grandson was bitten a week ago by a rattle snake. He had to airlifted from the local hospital to Birmingham for treatment. He fine now from what I understand.
That’s definitely scary. We have some rattlesnakes around here but they aren’t very common and they’re very shy (unlike the copperheads).
But blue racers are really kewl, I promise.
I trust you judgement. If you say so.
a snake is just a snake.
Didn’t George whisper some double entrendre for you to make?
Nope. 🙂
But ‘petting the snake’ is always petting the snake.
I came up with two different replies to that, but I aint gonna touch it.
See, if you had someone to pet the snake, you wouldn’t have to touch it.
toucha toucha! 🙂
Between you and SN I don’t know who is getting worse. 🙂
I’ll take that as a compliment, or a sign that DJ is slipping.
It’s a compliment to both of you.
How could I not compliment you two?
I am not slipping.
I’m merely awaiting another SEX diary that I can be a part of. It’s been “hurd wurk” taking it to the streets this week ya know.
More power to her. I serious, I’m deathly afraid of snakes. The last one in the yard that wouldn’t leave, my youngest brother had to come over to get rid of it.
Some phobias are a good thing. 🙂
My drinking friends tell me that the proper proportion for a martini is eight parts gin and wave the glass in front of a picture of Heinrich Eisenmeier, the inventor of vermouth.
And my story for the occasion recounts an episode attributed to Jackie Gleason.
“Gimme a martini,” he said to the bartender. “Fifteen parts gin and one part vermouth.”
“Certainly, sir,” the bartender replied. “Would you like a twist of lemon to go with it?”
“Listen, buddy,” Gleason snapped, “if I want a lemonade, I’ll order a lemonade.”
Great joke there…
There’s also Luis Bunuel’s variant called a “Bunueloni,” in which you take chilled gin, pour it into a cocktail glass, then take it into a cathedral where you allow one ray of green light, from one particular stained glass window, to pass through the gin, and then, and only then, do you drink it.
He loved his martinis … and said in his memoirs, that after his death he would like to return to earth every 10 yrs or so, buy a newspaper, go to a cafe and drink a martini, read the paper just to convince himself that he’s ready to go back to being dead, because people are just as stupid as when he was alive.
Curious, brilliant man he was!
I think he’d be plenty satisfied. We seem to have a bumper crop of stupid these days. And I’m not talking about just uneducated or misled, I’m talking walk up to a uniformed cop and ask him if the crack you just bought is the real stuff stupid. The kind of thing Randy Cassingham makes his living from.
A Latin scholar walks into a bar, sits down and says to the bartender, “I would like a martinus, please.”
Puzzled, the bartender replies, “You mean martini, right?”
“My good man,” retorted the scholar, “if I wanted more than one, I would have said so.”
But I like this joke better — it was the “Joke of the Day” by Will Durst on Quake Radio this morning:
A woman buys a new Lexus, then brings it back a few days later, complaining that the radio doesn’t work.
“Madam,” the salesperson informs her, “the state of the art satellite radio system is completely automatic. Simply press this button on the steering wheel and tell the radio what you would like to listen to.”
Hesitantly, the woman pressed the button and shouted, “NELSON!”
The radio replied in monotone, “Ricky, Willie, or Eddie?”
“Willie!” the woman said, and a moment later, the radio tuned to a station playing Willie Nelson’s “Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.”
The woman is amazed. Whatever she wanted — Beethoven, Beatles, Beastie Boys, Bach, Bow Wow Wow, Beck — the radio responded perfectly.
So one day she was waiting at a red light, listening to music. The light turned green and she moved into the intersection. From her left came a black Cadillac, roaring through the red light and barely missing her by about 2 feet. She slams on her brakes and yells, “IDIOT!”
The radio switched to a tape of President Bush’s State of the Union Address…
Hope everyone’s having a great day… 🙂
Thanks for the hearty guffaws from that one, Cali! People are really pulling some good jokes out of their …. hmmm. Lovin it.
Wont be seen on the news!
I want to see Lou Dobbs swallow his tongue and start foaming at the mouth.
ROFLMAO I want to see them ALL do that 🙂
Hell we know they eat their young.
We really enjoy people enjoying them — almost as much as we enjoy recalling the pleasure of being in the place where we took them.
Hey Andi – welcome back and front!!
Great photo – reminds me of the scene in Indian jones the last crusade as well as Arabian Nights – of the red cliff with the cut out of the church in it. I don’t know what it’s called but I’m sure it’s been blown to hell for the sake of “liberty”.
Hello everyone. Just to reiterate the news from the earlier cafe, I couldn’t get the new browser-based fournicator to work in IE. Apparently IE6 doesn’t like bookmarklets very much.
I’ll keep working on it, though.
I’ve got my matchsticks and glue ready. Whoever uses IE should switch to Foxfire. I would never go back.
Fuggettabout about IE…how’s it work on Mac’s (Safari)…PCer’s can use Firefox…
If you pull this off you will be canonized in the FBC. :{)
Peace
I hope to eventually get it figured out, although it may not be the slam dunk I had envisioned in my sleep the other night. But then again such things seldom are. If they were the Saudi Royal Family and all of Sam Walton’s heirs would be wondering where their money went right about now, and I’d be sitting on the beach with a smile on my face, a laptop with the baddest wifi connection you ever saw, and a copy of Buying Entire Countries for Dummies at my side.
Hmmmm. St. Omir. It has a nice ring to it.
I need to do some more testing with Firefox, and then I’ll put it up for beta test. Then we’ll see if it’ll work on Safari. I think it should, but I thought it should work in IE 6 too.
That is magnificent!
Not that you need encouragement to get that new camera but — that’s what a good camera and a good photographer can do — my shots in the canyon with the canon weren’t anywhere close to that quality of Jim’s.
BTW, we met up on one hike with a guy who sells his photos on the web. He said he makes a nice side income off of it — enough to finance trips all over the world to take more photographs. Here’s his website in case you’re curious about how someone set up a website to sell photos.
Do you guys ooh and aah as you’re downloading the photos? I would be! That photo above is gorgeous — dada is right, it is very sensual. Jim should be starting up a website (does he have any interest in doing that?). Thanks for the link — I’m going to check it out! 🙂
Each day we sat and watched all the files as they were transferred from the cameras into iphoto and after they were loaded we did a slideshow so we could look at them again.
Jim has put some photos up on a website but it’s not a blog like yours, just albums.
I’m thinking it’s time. My experience of SE Utah has been centered around Moab and the Slickrock area. Used to go Mtn Biking over there…different animal…trips were not camera friendly.
BTW, that is the most sensuous rock photo I have ever seen…jimF has solidified his place as a master photographer, IMNSHO.
Peace
Thanks for the wow. I was very fortunate that there was enough light that not using a tripod wasn’t a problem on most of the time.
This is an amazing photo! Welcome home. 🙂
Update: Lou just called the historic protests, riots in favor of illegal alien’s rights.
Riots??? Holy cripes… this regime is so fucking fucked in the head.
But then the murdering of innocents in Haditha to them is collateral damage.
I truly think we need to protest surrounding these news station jerks.
I’m snatching and sharing (((SIN)))
I’ve got to go and wash some of the dirt and grit off.
See ya in awhile.
I’ll be back. Gotta get a diary going for CodePink.
That’s tremendous – in all senses of the word.
When do we see the other 999?
Hey, we only took 664 pictures — we understand moderation.
…with that photo Andi — I can’t wait to see what else you’ve captured! Although, I like how you’re giving us time to digest them before shocking us anew! 🙂
Maybe I’ll intersperse my pictures with Jim’s amazing ones as a way to keep everybody grounded.
Of course, you have the same sort of challenge — I can’t wait to see your follow up to the rose.
Andi is being modest. She took many wonderful photos. Keep after her to post them.
You were in the distance — an orange dot — I think. That one was wonderful. She’s too modest, isn’t she? 🙂
From now we shall refer to him as “little orange”
Hi maryb — sounds like some funk-techno band! lol
How are you doing tonight?
kind of like a 21’st century Ike and Tina Turner?
I’m well Olivia, and how are you?
Good thanks.
Do you think they’d sing for us? 🙂
Let’s all go to Indiana next weekend and find out!
As a show of my truly benevolent nature which I am generally too shy to display, I will refrain from ever singing within 100 feet of either you or olivia.
Andi’s got a great eye… just being uncharacteristically modest methinks…Andi, wherefore art thou?
Peace
How are you and Bu doing? 🙂
We be kickin’…
Hii! O!!!
Peace
I can pick pictures but I can’t always figure out how to take them — Jim’s really good at knowing how to get the shot. It really isn’t modesty, just honesty.
But thanks to you and olivia for the compliment.
Wow to you too!
Andi had me go look at your rose. I love the way you used the shadows to accentuate the spiral of the petals. It really draws the eye into the photo.
Thanks Jim! You know w/ this photo — it was the second shot of a set. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shots were the best of the bunch, which is rare. Usually it takes me a few clicks to get the feel for a flower. And these were without additional lighting — just natural room light. (I was snapping before I got the lamp set up. lol) But, the photos taken under the lamp didn’t look as nice.
At two a day that should get us through the next year 🙂
Not to be critical or anything, but this shot would be improved if Sniff were in it.
Sniff would only be interested if the couch were in it as well.
I didn’t say Sniff would LIKE to be in it – I said the shot would be improved.
How was your first day back working? Didn’t realize how much you missed it did you? 😉
Unfortunately, I realized precisely how much I missed it.
Perhaps, we could lead each other astray and spend our work hours planning vacations.
Sounds like a great plan! Count me in.
We can start with your trip to Italy. I’m sure we can spend any number of billable hours on that.
Sort of off topic, but my cat has bombastic, room-clearing farts today from her worm pills. They’d knock Sniff’s socks off.
thanks for sharing …
I believe it’s essential in order to further our e-friendship.
I feel better knowing that you’re feeling so committed to “us”
Hey Baby, you know I’d commit if I could. I gots to be free.
I’m back and so far I’ve seen a friendship bud over a dog named sniff and a cat’s bombastic, room-clearing farts.
Isn’t the Internet wonderful.
It is indeed a strange and beautiful place, Family Man. How was your nap?
It wasn’t a nap it was dinner. Sauerkruat and Keilbasa (sp)
Didn’t you have this the other night?!
And, no grits? 🙂
No SN was talking about it. I think that was in the same thread as toliets and…..
I seem to remember that thread, FM. I think it was under the heading, For you, Family Man. Toilets and butt washers if I remember correctly.
I was going to be nice and leave out butt washers, but…
LOL, I was going to suggest that that might be a possible cause for your migraines — eating sauerkraut and kielbasa every other night or so!
No that’s an every now and then thing. When I get to thinking about my time in Germany.
You can admit it…you were thinking about me. Me and your landlady.
That picture you put up of sauerkruat and keilsbasa is now linked in my mind to toliets and butt washers.
No I had to put that out of my mind to eat tonight. 🙂
How did your mom like it?
She doesn’t eat it. She had beef tips with rice, sauteed asparagus and salad.
Yu-um! Mrs. Stouffer nicely provided us with lasagne tonight.
I feel like I haven’t seen you in weeks. Are you all napped out?
Ya I’m back to feel normal again. Sorry I missed Saturday night. How have you been?
We missed you saturday night. The f’ing party just wasn’t as much fun without you 🙁
Wished I’d f’ing felt like partying. I missed ya’ll too.
It is now that you’re here FMan! 😉
Thank you Olivia. I’ve just been overcome with all the beautiful pictures in the cafe today.
I just know that George must have said something to you about saying overcome in a crowd like this.
I keep forgetting where I’m at. 🙂
George, just give him a beer and he’ll say anything you want.
Seems like we might want to move to the new lounge, especially if someone wasn’t too lazy to provide a link.
Bruce Lee kicked more ass 🙂
Why did I ever bring it up?
Because you are a nice man who wanted to make sure that we all had a good time in the cafe.
Aw golly gee I guess your right. 🙂
Because you have no idea how silly these people can sometimes be 🙂 Oh you think you KNOW but you don’t 🙂
sometimes we’re even sillier 🙂
And we’re silly, crazy in love with you. And YOU! You, too – ALL of you wonderful men 🙂
And BU, too
Geez how could anyone ever want to leave this place.
And right back at each and every one of ya.
I got to go and cook some dinner. See ya in awhile.
Not such a good evening — we’re in crisis mode again in the household. Spouse has just been hit with a 30-day suspension, probably related to his extended time off; he contacted his union, which will most likely grieve the suspension. He still wants me to go on the SoCal meetup (and being stuck with him for that long at home, I’m going to need it!), and we should still be able to afford our big trip in June (both trips are already paid for anyway).
Basically not a happy camper right now…but we’ll muddle through this somehow… 🙁 Heading out to Sweet Tomatoes — we’re both in need of soup/salad, especially with the damp weather tonight.