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I got on a zoom cocktail call a couple of weeks ago and bought a bunch of citrus and simple syrup, so enjoying some gimlets as well, and what I think is a gin sour.

It wasn't til I reached a pretty old age that I started appreciating the sting of gin. I'm actually more interested in just a good gin with tonic or elder flower tonic/soda as it's warming up. I just bought some of this stuff and I thought it pretty damn tasty. My daughter brought me some good gin from Scotland a while back, but I don't remember the name. Same thing, kind of a "botanical" theme. I thought all gin was botanical anyway (juniper). In any case, thoughts on where this one fits in, and recommendations for some that are solid values?

Ha ha, we were on the Island in late July and we barely made it out before they closed everything down...crazy.

I liked Portland more in the winter than I did in the summer. In the winter it is chill and the bars feel welcoming. Portland in the summer (outside of some good restaurants) felt kind of Fisherman's wharf-y to me. We took the ferry and stayed on a small island of Northhaven (off of Camden). Very low key, nice to bike ride around the island, one good restaurant, one good pizza place, no real bars. High point was a nice sail on a beautiful boat. We spend 10 days every summer in West Marin at Point Reyes Nat. Seashore, and to be honest, the island kind of freaked me out wiht it's lack of wildlife. It's as if skunks and raccoons and rabbits hadn't made their way over there, and while there was commercial fishing, there weren't any sea lions and relatively few birds. It was just really very still, California was just more alive and vibrant. Maine was, I don't know, quiet and weird. So as odd as it sounds, I'd stay on the mainland and tool around with a side trip to Acadia. (Foxes deer and beaver). Maine can do "white trash" pretty damn hard, when it wants to. I was peripherally involved in a case involving a grisly murder in Lewiston. Lot of surly types.

That place looks fine - Las Colinas (pretty close to where I did some dry wall work on the McDonalds). If there are people coming from all over the metroplex, that is probably a nice locale. My daughter got married in Little Elm. I'm a "hate everything in DFW that isn't Dallas or a couple of spots in FW", and that made me kind of ragey they picked a wedding venue in fucking Little Elm. We ended up blocking some rooms at a nice hotel in Frisco and that is where everyone congregated and it went by without a hitch. Lock in a venue that isn't obviously shitty, don't let them overthink it, and make sure you have enough booze. Done.

Did he say Irving?

C'mon state don't fuck this up like you fuck everything else up.

Fucking State makes every goddamn game interesting.

I can't explain that but I can explain why Ho Ree Fuk is funnier.

Plus it endorses cutting a woman's hair against her wishes and canine cologne. This silly sidetrack reminds me of something that pissed me off today. I listen to a Jew podcast. Commentary Podcast. These guys basically start the podcast and mention of the murders by going straight to bitching about the Harvard admissions scandal and how Asians are discriminated against in admissions. As if to -- fuck, as if to I don't know what the fuck they were getting at. The admissions of Jews and Asians in select schools has been an issue for the last 30 years and it will remain so. The idea that this particular issue somehow reflects the same discriminatory animus that led to the murders is insane. Anyway, fuck those guys.

And to think I would never have gotten past the greatness of Candy Gram.

Okay, so I'm wasting all of our time...

Forgot to add humongous waves and partying with the Stones.

Need to run him against every database. There's no national database? Better get to work.

Well, to be honest, you fellas may have grown up a bit wealthier than me, but I think me and my siblings would have had a pretty good time growing up in that house. Looks like lots of area to explore beyond the house. Sure, if you venture too far off, you get raped and eaten by moonshiners, but a pool is a pool.

Until we get some further info to me it seems like Senator Diane F. fucked the whole situation up. The dems could have played this correctly, applied pressure, and come out looking better in this fiasco than they did.

Well, I've used this line about 100 times more than I've ever used "I see dead people." Quoting Signs is one of the few things that crack my wife up. Also: "I'm insane with anger!!!" and "I don't want any of you spending time with [any teenage girl who seems like trouble] alone. Is that understood? Given that my wife really likes signs, I feel I must concede any argument that it is a superior movie to any other.

Better Days Quo Vadis Aida? The Man Who Sold His Skin Can't even find them to put them into the queue in Netflix. Oh, that's Latin, isn't it?

I'm usually way behind because I don't like the movie theatre, so I am slow to catch up, but usually, I am happy to wait. This crop -- kind of a downer, especially since I think I've seen the happiest of all of them, Trial of the Chicago 7, already...

Very cool.

I remember back when Tommy Thompson was governor of Wisconsin, there was a whole segment on some NPRish show about how Wisconsin had the most perfect set up, politically, with the leftists in Madison getting along with the farmers and no one every raising their voices or saying mean things and everyone just calmly trying to understand the science and the history and everyone just the best they could be. Or maybe I just dreamed it.

Every time my male gay friends post on facebook they get shitloads of likes and "You two are so adorable!" and "How handsome." And I always want to type "Seems kinda gay".