Friday Night Rum Buzz. Ask me anything.

[Aristus]

Enjoying an Acapulco tonight: rum, Cointreau, simple syrup, lime juice, and an egg white. It’s my first attempt at a cocktail using egg. I like it.

The drink is delightfully frothy and smooth due to the egg white. I’ll probably have this one again.

I hope you are all looking forward to the weekend.

I love you all…

[elleng]

1. Love you too!

Wish I enjoyed such drinks. MAY try some, at newly found nearby coffee/drinks/restaurant.

[Aristus]

3. Aw, shucks!

Whatever you enjoy is what you should be drinking. ‘Drinking together’ shouldn’t have to mean alcohol for everyone.

[MiHale]

2. TFG dies...indicted but not convicted...

Flags at half staff? Federal requirements? Rest I believe are choice.




Choice of brew…a couple Natty Daddies. 8% brew. And a few pipes of good stuff.

[Aristus]

4. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be flags at half staff.

And I don’t think President Biden would try to stop it. He respects the office of POTUS even if tfg doesn’t.

[2naSalit]

7. This admin...

Would be respectful and honor the protocols for that instance. If I were there, I'd be doing my duties with a sly smile.

[Aristus]

11. Fortunately, the people have to follow no such restrictions.

Mrs. Aristus is convinced that there will be dancing in the streets when he finally kicks the bucket. I for one plan to party. But not in a place so public that it could be menaced by some aggrieved, butthurt Trumpsters.

[2naSalit]

19. Yeah...

That's one reason I'm glad to be retired. I'd be a federal employee of some kind if I were still working.

Which means I'll be celebrating as well.

[niyad]

35. I keep a bottle of bubbly chilling for just such an occasion. Rotated out, of

course. One would not want the bubbles to fail.

[MiHale]

13. Hey 2na!

And wicked side eye.

Have a good night 😴
Gotta go to bed started at 5 this morn harvesting then a couple brews and a few pipes.
15 sheets to the breeze, now.

Later

[2naSalit]

22. Sleep well!

I'll be up while this weather passes, glad I had a nap but a long morning, up at 4:30... because of course I was!

[MiHale]

8. Have to agree...

Wondering where everyone else was at.
Thanks…
I gotta go to bed, day started at 5 tons of harvesting… now 15 sheets to a breeze.

Night Aristus.

[Aristus]

12. Sleep well.

Hydrate before bed.

[MiHale]

15. 👍😴

[bucolic_frolic]

5. With the cheeseburger life he's led, how does 91 keep his arteries open?

Quad bypass candidate. Artery cleansers? Meds? It sure ain't exercise.

[Aristus]

6. That lifestyle certainly isn't good for one's health.

And he has the physique to prove it.

But the biggest risk factor for coronary artery disease is smoking. If he was a smoker in addition to a fast food junkie, he would have croaked from a heart attack long since.

[TexasTowelie]

9. So are you listening to reggae too?

During my college years one of the frats had a "Rum and Reggae" party in the spring of each year. Of course, one year that I went it became "Shrooms and Reggae", but that is another story...

[Aristus]

14. Not at the moment.

But now that you mention it, I’m imagining some Bob Marley, Inner Circle, and UB40 in my head to go with my rum.

[Easterncedar]

10. Plain Riesling buzz for me

Had a great hike around the Olmsted trails around Mont Royale (in Montréal) and am blissed out. It was a deliciously breezy day. So my only question is : how’s the weather where you are?

[Aristus]

18. Cooling down from the 90F temps we've been having.

72 and breezy here in the Pacific Northwest.

It must be lovely where you are. I hope to visit Montreal someday.

[cachukis]

16. I got to say goodbye to friend.

Met through younger brother.
Son of mason who, during reconnaissance in WWII, jumped with failed parachute into manure pile and spent 6 months in hospital.
We played broomball as a team. We ran White Mountains to lead the team. We tested intellectually.
We laughed at the stupidity in a game of poker.
We did peyote buttons.

We got to reminisce while he grimaced. We had climbed rocks together.

He admitted it was hard. Said, hadn't been there.

Eyes failing, reading done. He has pictures of our gang.

Put them in a file and send them. What else are you going to do?

You're right. Maybe I'll try.

Great experience for both of us.

[Easterncedar]

23. I can only dream of such a beautiful obit.

I’d like to know more

[cachukis]

26. One makes a friendship by sharing enough to get the same back.

Real friends share, regardless. We got to say I love you.

[Easterncedar]

28. The most important thing

Yes

[2naSalit]

17. How long do you think it will be...

Before I go stark raving mad with this weird floaty in my eye?

I woke up with it on Tuesday. I have exceptional vision so when something goes wrong, I freak out thinking I'm going blind. Eyes and teeth, serious biz.

Went to optometrist this morning and was reassured that it not serious and will go away, but it could be months. If it gets worse, go back, not expected to get worse. I was also told my eyes are actually quite healthy and I haven't declined much from my stellar 20/13 overall vision.


But it's just to the right of center in my right eye and it's very distracting. I'll buy new shades of there's the slightest scratch anywhere on the lens. This could get weird.

[Aristus]

20. Floaters can take a while to go away.

They are in the vitreous humor in the posterior chamber of the eye, and the vitreous humor is never renewed over the lifetime. The aqueous humor in the anterior chamber is replaced roughly every ninety minutes.

[2naSalit]

27. That's what the doctor said...

That attended my diagnosis. He was very nice and informative, I felt much less stress about it. But trying to see around it sucks.

I could see the anomaly in the images they took, but the rest of my eye is fine, little shrinkage, which is unusual for my age I guess. He was enthusiastic about that part. I was happily surprised. But the condition is often a product of aging.

Oh well, I have to start falling apart eventually. So I guess I didn't do anything to make it happen, also a relief. Have to see how I am handling it in a week or two.

[True Dough]

31. We appreciate

your vitreous humor, Aristus!

[Easterncedar]

25. My eyeball "de-velcroed" as the dr said

I had a small fall cross-country skiing. Flashes subsided. Ophthalmologist said my retina was ok. The debris is bad. The floaters make me see things running on the floor, black birds in the sky. Hard to ignore. Getting old is a challenge. Glad I’m here to try.

[2naSalit]

29. Ouch!

Mine is not injury related but I get the phantom bugs and birds! Yikes. This will be a challenge.

[madinmaryland]

21. Spending a few minutes in the not so hot tub tonite.

It’s down in the mid sixties here in SW Ohio.

[Aristus]

24. I've heard it's been relatively cool in Ohio.

My stepson and our granddaughters live in Ohio, and they’ve been enjoying the cooler temps.

Lucky for you guys. It was 94F when I got home from work yesterday.

[3catwoman3]

30. There was a glitch in my weather app that said it was going to be 115...

…this coming Wednesday in the greater Chicago area! The prediction is now only for 100.

The most time I will spend outside that day is to walk to and from the mailbox. Anything above 80-82 makes me wilt.

[Aristus]

36. Two summers ago, it actually did hit 115F here.

Shattered all kinds of Washington State weather records. On that awful day, I walked briefly out to my car and back, and felt like I’d been hit over the head with a sledgehammer.

[WhiteTara]

32. what do you thinj about the

Cosmic Question Mark?

[DBoon]

33. I'm in Los Angeles

Should make myself a hurricane
https://vintageamericancocktails.com/hurricane-red-fassionola/


Ingredients

2 oz Lemon Juice

2 oz Red Fassionola

2 oz White Rum

2 oz Black Rum

Directions

Technique: Tiki Dirty Pour
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with crushed ice.
Vigorously shake for 10 seconds.
Dirty pour the whole shaker into a glass. Crushed ice and all.
Garnish:
Maraschino cherries

[Aristus]

37. Sounds lovely!

Looks like I’ll have to get some Red Fassionola.

[niyad]

34. And we love you back. Be safe and well. Bugatti or Duesenberg?

[Aristus]

38. Bugatti.

Deusenberg made an incredible car. But I wouldn’t want to constantly hear that my car is a Deusie.

Bugatti’s designs are quite a bit more eccentric and memorable.

[Wounded Bear]

39. How 'bout them Mariners?

[Aristus]

40. I wouldn't know.

I’m following sports this year even less than I usually do.