Martinis are in the shaker, chilled and ready to pour.
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Snacks are on the bar
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be well chilled
Lounge Closed ~ New One Opened
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Got the bed made, but that’s about it. Been wracking my brain — I have to come up with a short “meditation” for the Good Friday service. Got a few lines of a poem down on paper after inspiration hit in the shower, then it dried up along with my hair — will tackle it again tomorrow probably. Probably time to tackle a little bit of housekeeping…
a double shot of Tequila, for both of “us.”
It’s been a rather odd day so far, and that’s about the only remedy I see for it at this point.
As a non-practicing Jew, I’m probably the best person to be offering inspiration but …
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things–
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced–fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
I would love to read that out loud after indulging in the tequila being offered upthread.
Hey Manny, I was over at your place this morning briefly, just to catch up on your reports from the demonstrations. And yes, my friend, I did leave a comment. 🙂
looks like my Guilt-Trip 101 cafe tutoring is finally starting to pay off.
I’ll buy that guilt trip slightly… but only because you have such a sweet dog! It did work though, becauseI made it a break time priority for myself today.
Well I have been visiting. But I haven’t seen cheesecake lately. No cheesecake – no comment. 😉
Jon Stewart’s takedown of Tucker Carlson last year, “I’m not your chango” 😀
(I’ll be serving cheesecake this afternoon) 😉
I’ll be there commenting. I’ll even rant for cheesecake.
cheesecake!
Will Bud be there too?
Now Maryb delurks. You’re such a cheesecake slut.
as soons as I’m finished with this first round.
make it worth our money
pity I ain’t a little closer, especially now that dada’s brought in some high quality stuff, see below.
that’s “not the best person”
And it definitely beats the stations of the cross for Good Friday.
I remember those. Stand, kneel, walk, kneel, stand, kneel, walk, kneel.
Protestants never work that hard. They just sit there.
that’s why protestants got all worked up about going to see that Mel Gibson movie. They didn’t have to endure stations while growing up. Same concept; only it was low tech.
going to Grace Cathedral (Episcopal) for Stations of the Cross today, but it was too rainy…yeah, you’re right, us Protestants are such wimps…
We are planning to go up for the Jazz Evensong at Grace on Easter Sunday afternoon…the singer used to sing with Turk Murphy’s combo. Should be a great experience…
sounds fantastic. If you go, let us know how it is.
Hopkins was an amazing poet. He created a meter he called sprung rhythm which combined with his beautiful use of language I find irrestistable, despite the religious nature of most of his poetry.
think I’ve read any of his poems before. I’ll have to look him up.
I’m in one of those martini moods today myself … maybe will have one when I get home, if I have enough Hendricks left.
Hey NDD and CS.. <passes the Cuervo gold NDD’s way…>
I’m in the mood for an iced coffee. Maybe it’ll help me to stay up later than Andi.
when you feel like you have to get competitive with the resident geezer.
She’s not even a geezer in training. There’s not short cuts to Geezerhood.
It’s very sad. Soon I’ll be going to bed at 7:30 like Family Man.
Yes but you don’t wake up at 3:30 or 4:00 am. You party the night away and what, wake up at around 2:00 pm?
and quite a read it was…got a cask of 100% Agave-Bleue ‘Hornitos’ for the cause
Who’s got the limes?
Peace
A whole cask of hornitos? That’s something that doesn’t grace our home bar too often, for obvious reasons! I should look at the other expensive bottle of tequila we got, can’t remember the name … comes in a ceramic jug with a cork, sort of like an old fashioned moonshine jug.
Looks like that ought to get us off to a good start.
I like the way you think
I’ll take 29 of everything ya got.
Oh and George will have a beer.
Any more spine tingling adventures you’d like to tell us about?
Actually I did two things today. I got all the lawn mowed, the house cleaned and created a web page. Well that’s three.
and the house project? You’re going to get tired of sleeping on the couch real fast.
Not really. I’ve got one of those giant comfortable couches. I’ve fallen asleep on it too many times to count.
please sympathize with me. My youngest, my baby, is taking driver’s ed this month. This boy has ADD, the quiet kind without hyperactivity, and he often has limited awareness of his surroundings because he’s lost in his own world. Remember those old commercials for Colt-45 where a man sat at a dinner table in the middle of a bullfight, calm as can be? That’s my boy. I’m petrified of him driving. He could have taken it a year ago but I kept putting him off. Now it just seems like a punishment to keep him from at least learning how to drive.
I’m a big baby, I know.
No you’re not a big baby. You’re a mother that worried about her baby. He’ll do fine and you’ll be proud of him and beaming to all of us how you worried for nothing.
The desire for a license and all that it entails at that age could well result in a very powerful focus on the elements of the driving test.
Oh, I hope so. I can just imagine him going into one of his trancelike states driving on a long boring road.
and the only problem is if someone asks me a question… then I might forget I’m driving…
So tell him not to be too distracted by any “chatter” from the tester during the test.
Well, to be fair, that’s how people in my area seem to drive in general. So he won’t be particularly unusual on that front.
Sometimes I actually miss San Francisco drivers — they were assholes, but at least they were assholes on purpose. Sacramentans just seem to sort of forget how cars work.
Oh have you ever driven in St. Louis. Mary knows what I’m talking about.
Just because we don’t signal, roll through every stop sign, drive really slow (in the fast lane) on the interstate and really fast on the side streets?
Or were you thinking of something else?
Here in NC a red light means only 6 more cars can speed through.
I was thinking the first two weeks I lived there it scared the hell out of me to drive to work. But, after two weeks I was cutting off people, shaking my fist at them and doing the normal things St. Louis drivers do.
However, friends from St. Louis told me never try to drive in Chicago, because they’re crazy.
I was going to say that we are the world’s best drivers compared to someplace like Chicago.
any day over the bone heads in Texas…assholes or not, at least they know how to drive.
And the winter here in Co is always an adventure…best not get started on that.
Exactly.
I’m really not that perturbed when somebody cuts me off in traffic because they meant to. I’m far more bothered by these folks that cut me off and then 15 minutes later are probably thinking hey, how did I get into this lane?
And don’t get me started on riding my bike around this city. I (knock on wood) haven’t been hit by a spacey SUV driver yet, but most of my friends have at least once…
Well I’ve done a lot of city driving, but nothing compares with driving down a winding two lane road with a log truck barreling toward you on your side of the road.
try the back roads in Texas…interestingly called FM’s for Farm/Market Roads…tractors, trailers, cattle trucks, oil rig and serv equip trucks, and they never saw a STOP sign they wouldn’t ignore at a crossroad…it’s where Defensive Driving was invented as a survival skill.
Peace
I lived in San Antonio for 5 years. I know exactly what you’re talking about.
and even worse during spring seeding time, and then particularly at harvest time. They’ll enter from a side road and never look left nor right.
And any sort of equipment could be on the road at any time of the night, and some of it covers the whole road, both lanes, your only choice is the ditch, which, if you can miss the poles and the approaches you’ll be OK.
Here they have a bad habit of waiting for you to get within 100 yards of them and then pulling out onto the road. They then drive about 40 mph and turn off a half a mile later.
is that people take a red light to be nap time, so when it goes green, nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then finally, very slowly your lane moves forward. Never seen that anywhere else.
‘Course in Phoenix if you jackrabbit off a green light you’d be dead your first day.
esp w/ the blades on…grew up in Kansas…Harvest always has “collateral damage”
Peace
I’m glad to sympathize with a fellow worryworst. I do have a slight suspicion that you were equally worried about the other three kids when they got their licenses.
I really don’t think I was. They seemed ready and he doesn’t. Of course he’s my baby and I made him dress in footie pajamas until ninth grade, so that could have something to do with it.
My youngest brother is 43 and he’s still my Mom’s baby.
So I guess it never ends, huh? I was lucky that my mom never liked me – much less pressure. My sisters and I always argue about who the black sheep of the family is, because we all feel like the black sheep. It’s actually a very fun role.
Did you get him that
Volvo?
No, that’s his brother who just got his license a few months ago. I’m going to get little Nature boy something even uglier and safer.
In that case, I stand by my original suspicion since you were pretty damn worried about him.
You and that damn memory. Ah, but I wasn’t nervous until he actually got his license.
Young boy got to see the gruesome movies today and the one where all of the parents talk about their kids who have died because they were speeding or not wearing seat belts.
to take the G-ride out for a spin after the hookah session. Sigh, some marmots never learn.
He has learned — the big lesson that you taught him: have fun sooner, later, and every time in between.
Don’t tell me you were too cheap to get the poor kid a pair of real slippers! LOL 🙂
Did you know they make Onesies up to size 16? 🙂
No I didn’t… but then again I had no clue what a “onesy” was until a few years ago. We were lucky to have old cast off rags to wear when I was the age for one of those things! LOL. Nah, that’s not really true, because I did have a fantastic Mighty Mouse t-shirt with a cape on the back… I used to “fly” off my dog’s house in that… oh I loved that shirt.
(((Second Nature)))
Thanks, maryb. :::sniff:::
Supposed to go out to help a friend celebrate his birthday tonight — sans driving, since there will be a surplus of beer — while it now looks like Sacramento is yet again going to be drenched.
I feel like I moved to the pacific northwest in my sleep. By now, us Sacramentans are supposed to be griping about how every year seems like drought. I even like rain, but jeebus, if the sun doesn’t come out soon and stick around for more than 15 minutes I think I’m going to claw out my eyeballs.
Plus, every drop is going right into our already too high rivers. Fingers crossed for stable, happy levees, everybody.
I’m trying to stay sane by baking some whole-wheat bread and sipping a lot of hot and occasionally spiked beverages today.
Glad you’re not driving, Spit. I saw on CNN how wet it’s been out there and the next few days are supposed to be wet and windy.
Sip a lot of the beverage, it’ll help.
That is depending on what you add to it.
hope to catch up with you guys sometime later tonight. Daily Show is a rerun again, so maybe I’ll use that time to come back here. Seeya later froggies!
Just got home.
I brought my own refreshments — but will share. 🙂
Hmm, beer and chocolate. You must be buttering up maryb. I’ll have a big hunk of italian bread and butter and some Fresca, nectar of the diet gods.
well, the promised cheesecake hasn’t materialized. And I AM hungry.
your cheesecake, I took the liberty of serving you a heaping side of patience. 😛
Mean Manny 🙁
detection device is giving me a jolt. Perhaps you forgot that I have to deal with this look on a frequent basis:
Bud and I understand each other perfectly.
::sniff::
Hi SN. Never heard of it before.
It’s a grapefruit soft drink.
Sounds intriguing. Thanks maryb.
It’s the worst tasting drink you’ll ever have. Pfftttt.
I agree. But people who like it, love it.
Yea all two of them. No offense SN.
lol! Seriously, never heard of it. Another strange food from the land of the South. 🙂
like to mix Gin and Fresca. They say it’s a refreshing summer drink. Since I can’t stand Fresca, I wouldn’t agree.
I thought it also had a lot of caffeine in it.
I think you’re thinking of Mountain Dew — which does have a lot of caffeine in it. I’m not sure that Fresca does. I think it may actually be caffeine free (since my almost caffeine free sister is a fan).
Yup. It was Mountain Dew.
Are you finished for the day?
Signed, sealed, and delivered!
Hi Olivia. Beer and chocolate. I’ve done that before. Can’t really remember the outcome though.
I think hard liquor goes better w/ chocolate, but sometimes beer is all you’ve got on hand.
How was your day?
I got a lot accomplished today. Lot of cleaning, lot of mowing and made a web page. Once I can figure out how to get it linked I’ll put it in my sig line.
That’s wonderful! Is it like a blog? It’s really easy to link — under your settings up there at the top.
I don’t know. It’s through my ISP and they have a template I used. I’ll try to figure it out and see if I can get it working.
are almost made for going with chocolate — though you admittedly have to like more bitter chocolate.
Try a Fuller’s London Porter or a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout (both are unfortunately far, far better on tap, if you can find a pub that’s got one or both).
I’ve spent many a nasty winter evening curled up at the local pub with one or the other of those.
Also be warned that they’re highly sleepy-making.
I’ll have to keep those in mind! 🙂
Canadian 6-paks that Omir [?] was talking about?
Peace
I wish they came w/ chocolate. 🙂
How’s the scanner — did you get the software loaded?
and it only took an hour and a half to get it in and – apparently -working. Going to try a scan this eve. and see what happens.
Peace
Good to hear that it’s coming along! 🙂 Does it come w/ photo editing software?
but unfortunately the instructions are all pdf format…give me a booklet any day…a bit problematic as I don’t have a printer for this machine.
Trial and error is my MO. :{)
Peace
I’m sorry to have been away so long but I’ve been working on a diary that was just posted.
How is everyone this afternoon/evening?
My wrist and hand are tired from giving 4’s; I wish I was at home so I could use technology.
But other than that …. good.
Yeah, I wish I had an answer for you. I’d be using it myself.
Hi Omir. How are you today?
Doing OK, thanks for asking, and as usual I’ll be glad to head home when the workday is over. I mean I enjoy my job, but not to the exclusion of spending time with my family.
On the other hand, when I’m out of the house my wife can clean the living room and I won’t be right there to mess it up again.
Plus you won’t be right there to help clean it. A good trade off I think.
Does anyone want me to open a new lounge?
I was just thinking it was time to do this — but since you brought up first, I’ll be delighted to let you do it.
OK give me a minute.
New lounger Open New Lounge Here