Froggy Bottom Cafe ~ Happy Hour
George Is Your Bartender ~ FM Is Napping
Newcomers welcome and join the fun.
Your first drink is on us!
Your first drink is on us!
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Rude, Crude and Lewd language is encouraged.
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May the 4’s be with you
Get rid of the bagels and let’s get the beer.
Newcomers and lurkers come on in and have a beer.
OK beer won’t get ya out. How about a little fawn.
and fawns won’t help you. 🙂
If that doesn’t work, then I’m pretty much out of ideas.
I could bring that picture back of the ugliest dog in the world.
Nah, that’s okay – I don’t want to lose my dinner.
Did you get your yard work done?
Yes I did. Still got to mow tomorrow, but weedeating is done.
You must be stuffed after eating all those weeds.
Is the weather supposed to be good for the wedding?
Nope and nope. Perfect weather today and tomorrow, but on wedding day, rain.
There’s an old saying (probably southern because it makes no sense) about rain on your wedding day being good luck.
It could be a volcano and we would still say it was good luck.
why are you eating the weeds when you should be whacking them?
Hmmm, if he was eating the weeds than what was he whacking?
Only youngsters use a weed wacker. Ah, memories.
to line up a few beers for me and please find a huge bowl of Jalapeno Kettle Fried chips for me… another long day at the office today (at least 2 more hours) and I’ll be needing libations!
How y’all durrin today?
Enjoy the hour and I’ll peek back in later if I get a chance… I’ll be ready for those beers, so make sure George hops to it.
George is ready and waiting. We all will be waiting for IVG. 🙂
you, at least, are possessed of that fabled Southern Charm. Not so sure about George, but I still think he’s a cute pup. 🙂
Now, back to my boring work on yet another report!! <arrgghhhh!>
about FBLVB (that’s froggy bottom lounge virtual booze) is that it can be imbibed on the job. Froggy Bottom’s Up!
Gotta ’em ready…
Peace
I think you set a record for world’s longest lived FBC coffee cart — but what would expect from the Southern Sage of Sensuously Superior Slothful Slacking.
It actually started to smell bad it was there so long. The half and half was curdling.
You sound like you might’ve had a bad day. You doin’ all right?
I’m doing well, thanks. 🙂
How’s the packing coming along?
Heh, I’m fighting off what is either strep throat or a viral infection. Probably viral. Yeah, universe, I get the joke, you can stop now, really. ;p So, no packing. Roomie will be home in 48 hours and she’ll help with the rest. YAY!
Yay! I hate hate hate packing. I’m glad she’ll be there to help. Any sadness about leaving the old place?
I’m ambivalent about the leaving. On the one hand, I love this town and it feels like a home and I will always miss it and be fond of it. On another, I’m ready to get the hell outta here on a lot of levels.
How’s things around the Nature Homestead?
Tonight is the incredibly exciting opening night of the esteemed high school production of Bye Bye Birdie. It’s always a little disconcerting to see my son in full makeup and being giggled over by girls who look like Anna Nicole Smith.
Break a leg, Nature Young Man!
Will you need to smack the girls? I think they still let you do that there in The South™.
Not around me they don’t.
I give them dirty looks, but it seems rather ineffective to this point.
I’m not surprised, he’s very handsome. And if he’s even half as witty as you, I’m sure he’s very popular.
Is he playing Elvis?
for my patented and incredibly effective ‘there, there’. All better now?
And since I don’t believe in skimping …
Yum, that’s exactly what I needed, thanks. 🙂 This whole tea and lozenge routine is getting real old real fast.
I think you should pamper yourself until roomie gets home and then you should let her take over.
Have you set an actual leaving Flagstaff day yet?
I knew I liked you! Yes, unless something goes horribly awry ::knocks wood:: we’re taking off a week from tomorrow.
Be sure to take some pics to document the journey (though you can skip Oklahoma if you want — I’ve already seen as much of it as I ever wanted.)
When are you going to change your email to the gmail or did you decide to keep using aol?
I am definitely ditching aol, we’re going to have high-speed on the other end. I’ll let you know details about all that via email sometime next week.
Great. (I know that moving is crappy and Dayton is not high of anybody’s list of great places but I’m am really pumped that we’ll be in the same ‘neighborhood’ soon.)
Do I get a trophy?
I gave you a new and improved Title – don’t get greedy.
I will never argue about Guinness.
but I brought my own preferred Irish brew
Hi Mary. How’s your day been going?
I’m going to a client shmooze event tonight so I figured I could take a break and hit your happy hour.
Do you get hazardous duty pay for that?
but if they send us some business my pay might increase. I generally hate these type of things because I hate small talk, but this one won’t be so bad. It’s sponsored by one of our bank clients at a party room at the ballpark. At least we can talk baseball (although it’s always frustrating to be at a game and not be able to WATCH the game).
They have room for parties at the ballpark that don’t include a view of the field (or is it just that you’ll be occupied with increasing the amount of money you’ll have to spend in Italy)?
but people don’t use them. It’s all background to the business purpose. Although since the stadium is so new, we might actually spend time looking out on the field just to remark upon the newness of it.
It’s rough duty but somebody has to do it.
When I first moved to SF one of the big brokerage firms heard I was a baseball fan and took me, as the new client in town, to the Giants’ opening game. I made two key mistakes: First, I actually tried to watch the game. Second, I completely forgot (having just moved here from Boston) that the bond traders had to be back on the desk at 5 am, so the polite thing to do when they take you to a night game is to start yawning in about the fifth inning. Now I have to buy my own tickets.
Better than hitting the clients during happy hour and breaking something. How are ya?
Here’s a picture I took a couple of weeks ago — a little preview just for you 🙂
Hmmm. Somewhere among the hundreds of e-mails I’ve received the last two days is one I need to respond to …
Thanks. It looks beautiful, though I see you artfully omitted the still-incomplete (or so I gather) left field stands. I’m still amazed they managed to get it open in time for opening day. Guess they didn’t have a choice this time — when the second Busch Stadium opened in 1966, they missed opening day and played in old Sportsman’s Park on North Grand until the middle of May.
is still not open. But the rest of it looks pretty good.
which doesn’t happen very often. Club seats. $180 a ticket. Which is just sickening. (I of course didn’t pay — well, I guess I paid indirectly since they belong to my firm).
But I was close enough to get my action shot of Albert
$180 a ticket? Geeze!
To paraphrase FM, Pricey doesn’t describe it.
Looking at your action shot, though — our seats are on the third base side at The Phone Company Park (for those of you old enough to remember The President’s Analyst), and so Ms. GR has become quite a – ahem – connoisseur (-euse?) of right-handed hitters. Her all-time favorite is Bobby Estallela.
I think I set a new all-time record for misspellings in a single comment. Like making two errors on the same play.
For $180 I’d want to be sitting in the dug out with the option of walking out on the field when I wanted to.
However, realizing that prices have gone up. I’m surpirsed that’s not the cost of a hot dog and beer.
They do let you have beer there don’t they?
In St. Louis they definitely let you have beer.
What would be a ball game without beer?
I just got that tooth pulled.
I hurt.
They gave me a prescription for Oxycodon. Isn’t that the same stuff Rush was on? So if I do or say anything uncharacteristically stupid today, I’m using that as an excuse.
It does not, however, excuse the characteristically stupid stuff I do and say.
Aww, poor Omir. No, that’s not the same drug, but just the same, try to eat something mushy before you take it to make sure you don’t get upset tummy.
Ahead of you there. On the way home from the dentist I stopped off at the deli counter of the local supermarket and picked up some macaroni and cheese for lunch, and I have some tapioca pudding and some cottage cheese for tonight (cottage cheese and pears or peaches are one of my favorite light meals). So I’m all set for the moment.
Heeeeey Omir. Sorry about the tooth. At least you have an excuse to say stupid stuff. I’m still looking.
Only if you scored it from your housekeeper. We’ll give you wide latitude.
But you also had to live in a mansion in FL.
Well forget that. As far as I’m concerned Jeb Bush, alligators and hurricanes are three good reasons to stay away from Florida. Not necessarily in that order.
Kathleen Harris should probably be on that list somewhere, huh.
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We are a huggy group of people are we? 🙂
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How’s it going Olivia? Any hockey games tonight?
😡
What are you doing tonight?
I’m sticking with the cafe until I go to sleep tonight.
I was actually looking up hockey stuff on net today.
Did you learn anything interesting?
I wonder if any of the games are on streaming audio. I am supposed to just rest and take it easy for the rest of the day, and the Mariners are off, so I figure I should be able to just relax and listen to some hockey.
If I felt better I’d be belting out the Arrogant Worms’ “Me Like Hockey”
Here’s the Ottawa/Tampa game: here.
The Western teams to play later too, googling their websites might bring up the radio stations doing play-by-play …
Now Mom decides she wants to go out to the farm and see how it looks.
I’ll be gone for about 40 minutes or less. If it get filled up in here, would someone open a new one for me.
Just about to head off for our anniversary celebration — most folks go to a fancy-dancy restaurant for their 15th wedding anniversary. Me and the spouse? We’re off to the Sharks/Predators hockey playoff game. Well, what do you expect from a couple that spent their honeymoon around trains in Sacramento? 😉
If DJ stops in, her package is enroute… 🙂
Have a good time Cali.
Happy Anniversary Cali & Spouse! Hope it’s a great one, and wishing you many more happy years together.
Enjoy the game, I wish we had a hockey team here in Tucson. The Ice Cat games are fun, but it’s not the same.
Woo hoo — fancy-dancy-schmancy! You guys got your priorities right! 😉 Have a blast and Go Sharks Go! {{{{Cali}}}}
Message for you at E4T.com (from ‘julie’)
Hi KB. Thanks.
Yer welcome! I was so excited. I wanted you to see it as soon as possible.
Thanks KB. That was a surpirse and a big help to me. It has eased my nerves a good bit.
can tomorrow be Fitzmas?
Fitzmas in April sounds good to me.
Maybe Karl knew his day was coming and nothing could stop it.
http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=41151
five more minutes till I get to leave work!!!!
One more day, just one more day to go.
Five more minutes. Then you’re probably gone.
Are ya there Manny? Ooooh Manny.
I forgot to finish something that needs to be ready for the morning. 🙁
[cue mini-violin performance]
Ah Manny. Ah man. If only I could do it for you.
Yeah sure. 🙂
Well get it done, because besides virtual drinking, you need a real beer.
Now that would make me feel better.
I’d feel even better if it was Fitzmas for Dick “Dick” Cheney too.
This cafe is starting to get filled. I’ll go open a fresh new one.
New Café Here