Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

I remember in the early days of DU, people would post "Ask me anything" threads in order to jack their post count.

I just do it because I love talking to y'all.

Enjoying a nice vodka and tonic after a very nice, encouraging day in clinic.

I love you all...

[Phoenix61]

1. I've gotta ask, which tonic? nt

[Aristus]

2. Shoot. It's downstairs in the fridge, and I don't feel like going down and looking right now.

It's the store brand, I think; and the low-sugar variety. If I'm going to save calories in my cocktail, it will be with the mixer, not the booze.

[Phoenix61]

5. I can't recommend Fever Tree or Q enough.

They are a game changer for vodka & tonic and/or gin & tonic. A little more expensive but as the add says, “You bought the best Liquor. Use the best mixer.”

[Aristus]

7. Q!

It's Q. Thank you for the nudge...

[Phoenix61]

9. I like Q because it comes in a flip top can.

Fever Tree is in a glass bottle and requires a bottle opener. If you ever do gin and tonic, Uncle Val’s Botanical is wonderful. Friends who swear they don’t like gin and tonic love it with Q.

[Aristus]

11. I'll give it a try.

[Phoenix61]

14. This sums it up.

https://theginisin.com/gin-reviews/uncle-vals-botanical-gin/
I’d love to try the others, especially the zested but haven’t been able to find them.
https://www.unclevalsgin.com/botanical/
I can only imagine how wonderful the peppered would be in a Bloody Mary.

[Aristus]

16. Just by looking at the bottle,

I'm pretty sure my local Safeway doesn't carry it. But it's possible that the beverage superstore does.

[samnsara]

22. im drinking tequila and cascade ice grapefruit....

..low carb

[Aristus]

23. That's a rather eccentric choice.

Interesting...

[niyad]

3. And we love you back. Since it is snowing here, should I do hot chocolate

or mulled wine?

[Aristus]

4. Mulled wine.

Hot chocolate is for late-afternoon after stomping around in the snow.

Mulled wine is for zoning out by the fire on an early evening...

[niyad]

21. Of course. You are quite correct.

[Pobeka]

6. If 42 is the answer...

Then why 41? WHY WHY WHY?

[Aristus]

8. What is six times seven?

No. It doesn't fit...

[Pobeka]

10. Thanks for the confirmation. It's bugged me all my life.

I can sleep now

[Aristus]

12. If you were never able to get the hang of Thursdays,

relax; it's Friday!

[Aristus]

15. Welcome to DU.

I'm a Physician Assistant working in Healthcare for the Homeless. I've been doing it in one capacity or another for about seventeen years. I love it. I don't want to practice any other kind of medicine.

I would leave a time capsule approximately forty years ago, warning people that the anti-government, anti-public service, dysempathetic, hateful seeds Ronald Reagan will plant will bear some very nasty, unappealing, democracy-ending fruit.

Don't be fooled by the sunny attitude and big, optimistic grin. Reagan is a monster, sowing the seeds of national dissolution.

[niyad]

19. Welcome to our DU family.

[chillfactor]

17. Wish I had vodka

but settling in with red wine tonight.

Love you too!

[Aristus]

18. Red wine is divine.

You can tell, because it rhymes...

[petronius]

31. Yeah, but beer is just freakin' awesome. That rhymes too,

after enough beers!

(Hazy Little Thing IPA for me tonight...)

[samnsara]

20. lol mines a tequila/bud buzz..so dont ask me anything

[Aristus]

24. Fair enough...

[AbnerBunny]

25. My first time here.

I’m a wine girl, with the occasional cocktail (“occasional” means 2 or 3 times a week, right?).

My question: how did you decide to work with the homeless? Hubs and I were the directors of a shelter for several years in semi-rural Kentucky. People-even sometimes our most progressive friends-fail to understand the enormous needs of the homeless. What opened your heart to them?

[Aristus]

32. Welcome!

It happened by accident. I was working as a Medical Assistant in order to earn clinical hours towards applying to Physician Assistant School.

My supervisor told me one morning to go work at our homeless clinic, which I didn’t want to, not knowing anything about homeless people.

It only took that one day; it set me on fire to want to provide medical care for the homeless. So I made it my focus in school, and then became the medical provider at the very same clinic once I graduated.

It’s stressful, but very fulfilling.

[sky_masterson]

27. Buzzed lounge posting was a way of life back then

Too bad I'm a quitter(Alcohol)

[Aristus]

30. Hey!

Good to see you!

[sky_masterson]

36. Good to see you as well

[3catwoman3]

33. What was encouraging about your day in clinic today?

Always glad to hear a happy story.

[Aristus]

37. It was busy, but not crazy.

Lots of nice, pleasant patients. And I came away from the day feeling like I was practicing good medicine.

One of my new patients put in his complaint that none of his previous medical providers was able to control his diabetes. I sensed even before I walked in the exam room what the problem was, and I was right. His hemoglobin A1c was off the charts, and he was on insulin and metformin.

I asked him about sugary beverage consumption, and he told me he drank fruit juice and Gatorade every day. That was the problem. None of his prior providers asked about lifestyle choices. I told him to knock off the fruit juice and sugary beverages, continue his medications as directed, and come back in three months. I expect that, by that time, his A1c will have dropped to a low enough level that I can discontinue his insulin, and maybe reduce the dose of his metformin.

Too many medical providers think Type II Diabetes equals insulin, all the time, every time. And too few of them ask about consumption of things like soda, Gatorade, Powerade, energy drinks, etc.

[Wolf Frankula]

34. What do you call a small dog who favors censorship"

Wolf (not a small dog)

[CatWoman]

35. my drunken babe needs a heart

[Aristus]

38. I gave away all the hearts the system will allow.

But here's one for you:

[CatWoman]

39. ....