This is a semi-hosted cafe
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Have you done your part for the War on Xmas?
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Mistletoe hats available upon request.
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Lounge Closed. Morning Cafe Opened
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Have you done your part for the War on Xmas?
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Mistletoe hats available upon request.
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It’s a bit early in the day for a Martini (not that I’ve ever had one.
I’ll stick with tea, please.
I want it to be Friday so I will be off for two weeks. Can you serve that up too?
Well, it’s already Wednesday here. Which is a day closer to Friday. Does that help.
Just tell them at work that Australia has annexed Indiana and you’re now all on Australian time. Then Thursday would be Friday.
Plus, since most Australians kick off early on Fridays, you could probably leave work around Thursday noon.
That will work just so long as we can unannex me on Friday so I can have the extended time before I have to go back.
I thought Indiana was part of Australia and that’s why they Hoosier time was so weird.
I’ll get working on that right away. It might take me a couple of days tho… 😉
Hey there Manny and your erstwhile gang of cohorts!
I’d take a good stiff martini today, right about now, and even though I don’t drink vodka, that sounds almost tasty. Maybe make mine with Tanqueray 10 and a bit of Chartreuse (it’s called an “Alaska”) and you still get the touch o’ green.
Sneaking away from work here so I could at least pop in and say a jolly friendly ho ho to the gang I’ve missed the past few months. I have not been liking the RL interference in such a large degree!
You guys all ready to party on late tonight? 2 More days of work here and I can “relax” with my holiday baking and candy making for the weekend, lol. Nice to see you folks again!!!
Great to see you. How is everybody (2 and 4 legs inclusive)?
Hey Andi!
We’re doing fairly well here (well my 2 legs have been giving me fits lately), just uber busy with the impending(imploding?) holidays upon us. And, I have one more report to finish this week at work, then I can start with a clean plate on the 27th (well until said reports need to be presented).
I need to get back into a mode where I’m not so pooped at night that I don’t even turn the computer on at home! But making progress on that as of late last week, when I started ornament blogging over at my place. If that’s of interest to you or anyone else, take a look… so far I’ve put some of the more eclectic things up and more to come … even an appearance by Santa Dog (Pepa) on the 24th if she will cooperate with what I have in mind for her … hehe.
I’ll be sure to go over and have a look but I think Pepa (and the other dogs) should make an FBC appearance, too.
Are you doing any garden-planning? I’ve talked Olivia (supposedly) into doing a post this week on what she’s going to do with the garden this coming year.
Hi IVG.
Good to see you. I hope your two days past fast for you.
great to see ya here (although you’re probably long gone by now), either way major kudos again on the ornament blogging. I love them, especially Snoopy!
Good to see ya!
Isn’t that Snoopy great … love the little beard and tongue. 🙂
likewise! i’m barely getting home from work, it was a rough one which is why i left the cafe hanging earlier. i’m starving but waiting on some friends for a dinner date later. can i bum some cheese and crackers from you? 😉
snoopy was awesome, the seahorse too.
where are you going for dinner?
Cheese and crackers? Manny you want poutine!
but i thought it looked good!
I’m heading out to dinner now, going to an Indian restaurant to overdose on hummus. Be back later!
Enjoy Manny!
Did you have a pleasant afternoon?
I’ve never been much a bar guy.The rare times I am at a bar, draft beer is as exotic as I get. But Man E, I am fascinated by your drinks. I never realized how much thought went into the appearance of the drink, (aside from the fruit & umbrella types).
with a bartender for several years so I was always getting the skinny on cool concoctions. Like a good blogger, though, I defer to the many webtender sites for good ideas nowadays. (shhh, don’t tell maryb)
Hi Ya Manny, keres and Andi.
keres it’s martini any time.
I respect that philosophy, but will decline the practice.
I just had a nice soak in a very warm tub. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Now that’s relaxing.
One day I hope to have a tub that is long enouh for me to lay back and soak. I think that would be very nice. Of course I would have to have a martini close at hand. 🙂
We have an old clawfoot tub that I can lay back in and stretch out completely without my feet touching the other end. You’re welcome to scrub up any time.
If there’s any tea left over, I’ll have it.
Are you feeling better?
Yes. I’m definitely in the nasal discharge of the defeated viruses stage, but I am feeling stronger. Now, better? I still work for that god awful moron.
You can consider him an authorial muse — Sue Grafton got started writing mysteries by trying to figure out ways to kill her ex-husband.
Sorry for the half-hour delay. I wasn’t being stylish. I tried to make a quick change to an on-line account & it ended up taking 30 minutes. But boy, this online business stuff saves you lots of time, huh?
Hey Teach.
I’ve been trying to make your stories as a permanent fixture on my b, but when ever I call it up, I’m told blogger can’t find the page. Don’t know what I’m doing srong, but I’ll figure it out.
http://web.mac.com/mathhelpers/iWeb/Teach313%20Productions/The%20BooDay%20Project/The%20BooDay%20Pro
ject.html
That’s the ridiculously long url. Maybe that will help.
Blogger may have a limit to the allowable number of characters in links. BT has that situation. That’s why my link in listed as BdBsP. That’s all that I had space for with the long url.
Thanks, I finally got it to work. After reading the latest, I didn’t realize I was so mysterious. 🙂
Do you remember saying that you would be difficult to write about because of your slackerly ways? That was a great challenge. How to create a man of mystery that sleeps most of the time?
Yep it does present a challenge. 🙂
I forgot to mention that I have you and that other pond dwellers linked as well.
Yep I saw that. I think it’s a good idea.
I have more to list, but it’s a start. Right now I’m not sure if I’ll get the FM papers finished by Friday Night. After that I’ll be offline at my m-i-l’s until Wednesday. I don’t want to rush. I’m not happy with the last few pieces that I rushed to finish. It’s a strange thing to be writing and posting with little editing. KS tries to catch my egregious typing, spelling, and grammatical errors and slips in the plotline, but other than that I write it and post it. I have a brief outline of the documents, but the story changes as I write. Anyway, when it’s all posted, it may be worthwhile to reread it from the beginning, because I may need to modify and polish some pieces.
Oh, the principal’s a woman. In Detroit, most administrators are members of one of several black fraternities or sororities. These Greek organizations look out for their members and advance them without regard to competence. Style is more highly valued than substance and hard work is for the little people. My disdain for the Greek systems crosses the racial divides that mark the Greeks.
On a somber note, my new principal’s funeral will be Jan 2nd at 3PM, Hope Funeral Hope on Grand River. Now, I need an alibi for the Dec 31st. Any ideas?
You come over to my sister’s for dinner — we’ll all vouch for you.
I may be a little late. If anyone asks I got in the late the night of 30th and didn’t leave until early the 1st.
I hope my morbid comments haven’t driven people away. I’ve vented, I’m over it. The woman is maddening, but she will live to screw up again. And again, and again, ad nauseum.
but I’ve been watching my tivo’ed Dr Who episode.
Have you noticed that most people’s favorite Doctor is the first one they knew?
Then I’m the exception because my first doctor was Jon Pertwee but Tom Baker is my favorite.
It’s possible that I feel that way because Tom Baker was the first I saw. Davidson and Pertwee were up to Baker’s standards.
I’m enjoying this newest version. The doctor in the first season was pretty good but new one has been much more in the style of Tom Baker (no scarf though) so I’m liking him better.
Anybody who hangs around the FBC is bound to have excellent taste.
of course Tom Baker is the BEST doctor
and cheese shopping … 🙂
Is the Lounge running low, or do have a real party coming up?
liquor for non-work stuff … 😉
the crackers.
on my way home from work … 🙂
Shouldn’t you be hard at work on a particular blog post. 😛
I’m making some ginger crackle cookies right now for the party tomorrow … once that’s done I’ll do some work on the post … 🙂
at work.
But I’ll keep your bowling ball experience in mind, and try not to overdo it.
at least you won’t have to worry about forgetting your towel. Or is the panic already done for the week?
this wasn’t even a real concern in the panic scheme of things … I’ve just decided to put off worrying about it for tonight.
the party was part of the panic — I just figured that no one panics when it’s party time.
My cookies are now cooling … 🙂
I truly had a day from hell today. BUT I did buy tape on the way home 🙂
Now to wrap the remaining gifts …
Hi Mary. Sorry about the bad day. Sit down, put your feet up and let George get you a drink.
I see I missed my favorite bartender, Manny 🙁
But George is almost as good. But just club soda … I have too much to do to drink 🙂
George will have it right away.
I’m trying to decide whether to go over and tell AG that the only Ritz Hotel in the St. Louis area isn’t in the city of St. Louis. It’s in Clayton.
Nah. Maybe I’ll just write an obnoxious diary about New York City someday.
tape just seemed easier. Call me crazy … 🙂
I like to please.
Yeah I had some arduous putting-things-into-gift-bags today too.
You must be exhausted.
Not that I’m looking for sympathy but I did have to wrap three different Walter the Farting Dog books in Hanukkah paper on Saturday (and three more gifts besides) — if there are Hanukkah gift bags they haven’t made it to Nowhere, Indiana yet.
I still can’t see the appeal of Walter the Farting Dog, but if the kids like it …
Obviously there is a market niche not being filled. Maybe you should look into a career switch.
I think first I would need to look into increasing the number people who get Hanukkah gifts — a nanoniche does not bode well for future earnings.
I’m bummed. I was going to watch Veronica Mars repeats while I wrapped, but instead there’s soft core porn on. I guess I’ll just listen to tunes.
The key to any endeavor is marketing. First you must commercialize Hanukkah, then the rest will follow.
Hanukkah is already commercialized — it’s current form is all about keeping Jewish kids from feeling bad about the commercialization of Xmas (it’s commercialization for conversion prevention).
One time I ran into a co-worker at the mall in December. I knew Hanukkah had just finished so I asked her if she was returning gifts. And she looked at me in surprise and said she was Christmas shopping. Since I knew she was Jewish, as was her husband, this surprised me. And she said, oh we do the Christmas thing too, doesn’t everyone? I found it vaguely offensive since it was clearly only the commercial aspect that they ‘did’. I don’t think I would ever say to someone “oh, we do Hanukkah” or “oh, we do Rosh Hashanah”
Huh, I have never run into this before — the only Jews I know that “do” Christmas are ones with Christians in the family. A lot of Jews are like me and are cultural Jews only so all the celebrating is non-religious — so maybe they put Christmas in the same category as Thanksgiving.
Well, she was a little strange anyway. I had to work with her on a marketing event one time — a luncheon with a speaker and she was absolutely anal about the slightest things. So one day after she lost her temper because the place cards didn’t look the way she wanted them to look, she came into apologize. I told her not to worry about it but she kept apologizing. Finally I laughed and said don’t worry, we all get a little neurotic sometimes. Then she lost her temper again because I had insulted her and called her neurotic.
So she probably just felt a compulsive need to do EVERYTHING and do it well.
I drive people like that crazy because they ask my opinion and I don’t care and won’t pretend to care. This is one reason why I try to stay far, far away from wedding and baby showers.
I was an associate and she was a partner and I had no choice in the matter.
She eventually left the firm. Thank TFSM.
So are the gifts all wrapped now — have you been wrapping one gift, making a comment, wrapping another and so on?
option b
But I only have one left (at least until I do more shopping).
Well now that I’ve got you through that I think I’m going to read The Omnivore’s Dilemma for bit before I go to bed.
Night.
I bought that for my sister for Christmas.
enjoy!
One of my favorites has always been naval lint holiday. It’s something that encompassess everyone so you don’t have to worry.
when the navy is lint-free or lint-endowed?
Guess i should had said navel. 🙂
it was a much better typo than the peach train.
Speaking of, where is SN hiding tonight. Probably more shopping.
I think she’s resting up for a full bout of worrying about Ryan’s operation tomorrow.
And as already announced, I’m going to go read.
Geezer over and out.
Night Andi. Enjoy the read.
Hello. Goodbye. Maryb and those who are are still around.
I keep trying to stay up with lounge crowd, but I’m being nibbled to death by ducks. lots on annoying meaningless crap that I have to take care of. Enjoy your evening folks. I’m going to take my cheery self home for the night.
you can come back later as a reward for finishing some of the crap … 🙂
I can, I have, but I can’t my eyes open. I’m shutting down before I read another post. Night all.