Friday Night Vodka Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Finally, a good day in clinic. Now it’s time to hit the weekend.

[Sanity Claws]

1. What made it a good day in the clinic?

Did you have a patient who actually did what you suggested?

[Aristus]

4. Nothing spectacular.

Just managed to re-route a patient from her Google-derived diagnosis and putting her on a medically appropriate path.

[MOMFUDSKI]

22. I call it Doctor Google

and realize that REAL doctors wanna grab me by the neck for even taking a peek at doc goog! lol

[Aristus]

25. Welcome to FNVB!

[Ocelot II]

2. How was it a good day?

[Aristus]

12. A patient came today suffering from a couple of years of

bad medical management. I put her on the proper path and told it starts getting better today.

I’m not a medical genius by any measure. But I can tell when a patient has been getting poor treatment.

[Yonnie3]

3. How are you drinking the Vodka?

I'm having a gin and tonic (diet) with a lime wedge. Gonna be a cold one tonight here in Virginia, but we're warm.

and here's to a good day at work! Cheers.

[Aristus]

5. Couple of shots straight up.

Then a medium-dry Martini.

[Yonnie3]

6. Medium Dry Martini works well for me with both Gin or Vodka

I prefer olives (wet ones) for a garnish. You?

[Aristus]

7. No olives.

I don’t like green olives, cocktail onions, or black olives. Garnishes take up room for alcohol.

[multigraincracker]

8. The mutual interdependence of opposites.

Without those bad days, you wouldn't as please with today.
Happy for you.

[Mme. Defarge]

9. Maker's Manhattan.

A little heavy on the Bitters, and I’m quite liking it!

Question - did you ever see Groundhog Day, the movie?

[Aristus]

10. Love it.

Andie McDowell is gorgeous, and I love her Southern accent.

[Mme. Defarge]

20. So, to fill in a gap in my cultural knowledge,

I streamed it last night on the recommendation of a guy I’m dating, a Stanford Ph.D. who’s academic and literary credentials well exceed my own. This morning when I told him my take on it was a latter day version of A Christmas Carol, he questioned whether or not we’d seen the same movie. When I replied that I saw a movie about a man’s personal redemption that happened as a result of a supernatural intervention on a holiday, he more or less suggested that I had missed the mark, in his opinion. Which may be why I chose Maker’s Mark for this evening’s cocktail.

Anyway, please feel free to weigh in, not, on this utterly inconsequential matter.

[Aristus]

26. No. I think you are absolutely right, and it's a great insight.

He’s wrong, Stanford PhD. and all.

[Mme. Defarge]

30. Merci!

Now I feel better, and not solely because of some very nice bourbon.

[Aristus]

32. De rienne.

[Mme. Defarge]

34. P.S.

I am truly grateful, as well as relieved, to know that you had not too bad a day mon ami.

[Aristus]

35. That's sweet.

I wasn’t confident enough in my French to write it that way. But I’ll let you translate it in your head. I think ‘dulce’ is in there somewhere.

[cilla4progress]

11. Are you a fan of

wine?


I had a good Huckleberry Reisling today!

And happy for your good day!

[Aristus]

14. Love a good Cabernet.

Have a nice bottle of Yellow Tail in my liquor cabinet right now.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. A tablespoon of beer, here. Once all systems are up to speed

what's the probability of abrupt, rapid, or exponential progress? I'm thinking personally, but in the abstract sense, just LOOK at the eye-popping employment numbers! Joe Biden really got down to fueling spending power for working people, didn't he?

[Aristus]

15. A bottom-up, middle-out economy grows on its own merits.

An unsustainable economy dies due to auto-cannibalism.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Man, that is profound, what brand of Vodka are you drinking?

[Aristus]

18. Smirnoff.

[Mme. Defarge]

23. Thank le bon Dieu

that this evening’s national news broadcast moved on from the breathless and over-wrought non-newsworthy updates on Biden’s classified documents non-scandal. I love thinking that it had to burn the corporate news producers.

[3catwoman3]

17. No questions, just happy to hear...

…that your week ended better than it started.

[Aristus]

19. Good to see you!

[3catwoman3]

21. I know we've never met, and likely never will, yet I think of you...

…as a friend.

[Aristus]

27. That's the beauty of DU.

It creates friendships that otherwise never could have existed.

[Aristus]

28. In the short term, definitely.

It’s the weekend.

Welcome to DU!

[cachukis]

29. Yes. Understanding solves. Salves?

[gay texan]

31. So valentine'sday dinner

"Marry me chicken" or something else?

[Aristus]

33. If it's a proposal, spring for the beef.

Steak Robért: Tenderized beef filets marinated in red wine, then pan-seared and broiled with white wine and rosemary. Brown rice and lentils on the side, mixed vegetables, and slices of fresh cantaloupe and honeydew melon.

Strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Best of luck!

[Pobeka]

36. Okay here we go.

Let's say you have two things, one is not like the other. But the other is definitely better than the one.

Would you get a third thing, or have another shot of vodka?

Think carefully before you answer, there are no wrong answers, but, there may be a right answer!

Cheers!

[Aristus]

37. I never say no to another shot of vodka.

Just you watch: one of the other things is a billion dollars.

Oh well, if I just lost a billion dollars, I’ll be too drunk to care.

[airplaneman]

38. Did you see the Chinese balloon?