Friday Night Wine-Buzz. The sooner this year is over, the better...

[Aristus]

[sl8]

1. About time you showed up! :)

I admit, I don't quite get the year 2016 animus - aren't the Gregorian years (or any other years, for that matter) just an artificial construct?

How does it matter if somone dies on December 31, 2016 or January 1, 2017?

[Aristus]

2. Hi!

It sounds like you were expecting me to make a cogent response to your assertion.

Honestly, I'm surprised at this stage I could remember the word 'cogent'...

[sl8]

5. Nah, you just showed up at the wrong place & wrong time, pardner.

I'll pose that question to some poor sucker on New Years Eve.

Feel free to abandon your cogency.

[Aristus]

6. Already have...

[BlueSpot]

4. Sure it's a construct

Got anything better? If you want to measure something, you need a unit. The unit we have is a year and it ends on December 31. You can try and change that if you want, I guess.

The most recent period in the current unit of measure has sucked in many ways. If you don't get that, I guess I don't get you.

Time is also a construct. What time do you eat lunch? If somebody wants to make you wait until 3 pm, are you indifferent to that as well or do you get hangry?

But what I really want to know is what caused the shift from vodka to wine?

[sl8]

8. No, I grant that years are a useful construct, and they serve certain purposes very well indeed,

as a measure of our solar orbits.

I still see no advantage in assigning any significance to celebrity deaths between January 1 and December 31 in any particular calendar year. Do you?

[TexasTowelie]

3. Did you run out of vodka?

I made a trip to the store today to pick some up since I was running low. I also have plenty of grapefruit juice on hand and will think about getting something sweeter (either cherry/passion fruit or tangerine/passion fruit) tomorrow.

[Aristus]

7. No, still got some.

But, as usual, Mrs. Aristus is between me and the fridge where I keep it. She's seen me drinking the wine. Any more moves in that direction will get a disapproving look at best...

[In_The_Wind]

9. Sigh. Just woke up. Too late for a wine buzz tonight. Tomorrow is another story.

[Aristus]

10. Good morning!

[In_The_Wind]

11. Yes, indeed!

[pinboy3niner]

12. Shoulda gone straight to the wine

[In_The_Wind]

13. It's chillin'