Gin lovers unite

This goes on our list before the finalization of the script, pending name: "The Adventure"

http://matzoandrice.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/gin-tasting-extravaganza/

Now, while it was a couple that did their own gin tasting, I feel uncomfortable with the idea of having only two people. Perhaps it is my scientific nature (n-1=1) that tells me that this has no accuracy whatsoever or my desire to make this gin tasting adventure really epic. This will definitely require more than the two of us.

A winter holiday party drink I found online: the Gin Fizz

ice

2 oz gin

1 teaspoon of powdered sugar

juice of 1/2 lemon

club soda

1 cherry for garnish (personally, i think garnishes are an unneeded step between my drinks and my drinking, so I would prefer leaving these out especially if they are marciano cherries)

Combine first three ingredients into a shaker, shake, pour into champagne flute, top with club soda, add cherry if you wish.

I also found a new term from http://cocktails.ibeverageblogs.com/2009/04/12/winter-gin/

“Wint-o-Green effect.” Sometimes when it’s cold you want something cool, increasing (rather than mitigating) the cool effect. That’s what gin does. It adds a crispness to an already crisp situation

The description is so perfect, though I'm sure there is a better name for it. I don't care for the spelling either.

Here's how I see this working:

Winter break - preferably when or after I become a legal imbiber, we will set up a Facebook event (naturally). It may be entitled "Winter-gin tasting". I suppose I could make my birthday party a gin only party, but this would definitely scare some folks away (maybe a good thing). I'm predicting that gin goes well with gingerbread snap cookies; this is something we must test. We will combine our skiing, snowboarding adventure with gin tasting and reunion. It'll be legendary and will have to create a charter so that the event can occur annually for years to come. It will become so popular an event that we will sponsor it and perhaps add a summer gin tasting as well. We'll have to figure out a prime location for this event. Maine? Italy? - where olives are plentiful? Rotterdam? - origination?

Finally, where can I find a copper pot so that I can create my own blend of gin.

Free masonry and America

George Washington, Ben Franklin, Pierre Lafonte, James Holden (built the White House)

I'm watching a Discovery channel special called "Secret America"

Looking past all the conspiracy theories, we find that the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel tower were constructed by free masons. Another fact, the city planner for Washington was a free mason (Lafonte). The free masons were a secret society/oldest fraternity in the US, that stood for freedom from ignorance. They based their values on building. They had some ritual with corn, oil, and wine: corn represents prosperity, oil=peace, wine=happiness.

I've become exposed to more and more about free masonry and I have to say it is intriguing.

That time I had to bail my friend out of jail, the towing bondsman was a free mason. Ever since that point, I've looked into what it was via wikipedia and have also picked up on random information here and there when it is mentioned. Now this TV special is the icing on the cake, and I'm just learning so much.

LATFH

Tell me you've seen this:

http://www.latfh.com/

I've just submitted one. The one on the right is my friend, Landon (note the Houston jersey). Hopefully it wins and they post it.


The caption will read:

"I see four tall boys, two of which are also pussies."

You're Right, Old age is horribly depressing

I did a terrible scanning job.

Here's the transcript:

Frame 1

Kim: Gate 4. I think this goes back to Kopenhagen.

Frame 2

Kim: Those seats look good

Jane: Can we sit wherever?! (in utter surprise, thinks: America is strict)

Frame 3

Jane: so, how many hours do we sit on this train?

Frame 4

Kim and Jane chit chat to kill time

Row 2: Frame 5

Old lady 1: German, German

Old lady 2: German German

Jane: Any guesses as to what they are saying to us?

Kim: Are they saying it or yelling it?

Jane: You're right, we may be getting yelled at.

Frame 6-7

no dialogue, just enjoy the pictures

Frame 8

Jane is sleeping against the window

Old lady 1 (looks to Jane): Tee hee

Frame 9: (bottom middle)

Old lady 2: German, German

Old ladies 1-2: Haha Teehee

Frame 10

Jane: Wow does my neck hurt from sleeping all weirdly. Anything good happen?

Kim: Well, we now have new grandmas

Fin

Hope you enjoyed

Bond's man

I didn't feel like going to the tailgate for our football game, so I went home after our 11 am pregame. At around 3, I got a call that my friend Christen was in jail. Being the only sober one, I went to the county jail to see what I needed to do. Bail was posted at $1000. I had to either pay cash or pay a bondsman. At Krankie's coffee shop (see last post), which happened to be around the corner from the jail, I went to get coffee and find a yellow page book. When asked what I needed the Yellow pages for, I told them I needed a bondsman to post bail. They handed me a card for Scriven Towing and told me that their friend Michael Scriven is also a bondsman. Good, a towing bondsman.

After waiting for him for 1 hr (he was towing a car a few towns over), I met this character. I filled out paperwork, drove to the jail only to find out that it was on "lock down" (later I found out that one of the inmates had passed out and EMS had to come). No one was allowed in or out. The cops tried to delay the process of moving Christen from the check-in to the jail cell, because they said jail was "just like you see on tv" and "there [were] some big girls in there". So we waited outside. After 2 hours of hearing about the bondsman life, I filled out some more paperwork. Meanwhile, Christen was in the cell in full jumper. At some point during filling out the paperwork, bondsman had me pretend I was with him, as in his wifey. You see, some homeless drunkard sat next and tried to talk to me.

Another hour passed that I spent in the waiting room filled with society's not so finest human beings. Finally, at 8 they released the traumatized crying friend. Two morals in this story, kids: do not flick off a civilian-clothed cop and getting arrested is not the least bit funny.