The Afternoon Cafe Is Open!
Got any big plans for the weekend?
More importantly, is it time for happy hour yet?
Better get those random 10s ready for happy hour…
Kindly recommend this cafe and
unrecommend the previous one.
Cafe CLOSED – Gone drinking!
Helllloooo! Anybody here? 🙂
Hi CG. Seems pretty quiet.
Of course if there was lots and lots and lots of beer….
Into beer?
I’ve seen heaven and it’s a room with a lot of beer bottles and glasses. 🙂
help yourself to whatever’s in the fridge:
I must be dead because I see the promised land and it’s in a refrigerator now. 🙂
Check the labels. If those beers are all American you haven’t exactly gone to heaven.
Pyramid Curve Ball (seasonal) is a nice light lager style…and just heard that Gordon Biersch brewpub is now bottling their Hefeweizen.
But I was so disappointed the other night; we went to BJ’s Brewery in Cupertino, and they’ve apparently been without their Berry Burst Cider (hard cider) for like forever…that worries me…
Oh, I’m sure there are some finely crafted ales that will set any beer-lover’s tastebuds a-waterin’. I’m just thinking of mass-produced American brands and the comment an Englishman once made after sampling a Budweiser: “It appears your horse has diabetes.”
I’m passing all this information on second-hand, of course, because I’m not a drinker. The last beer I tasted was when I was curious about the can Mr. Hettinger, our next-door neighbor, left on the picnic table. I was 4 at the time. The taste of it apparently put me off for life. That, or the chewing-out from my parents, and not about drinking from other people’s cans.
I developed my taste for beer from sampling the cans my dad and assorted uncles were drinking from…I was known for making the rounds at the tender age of 5…
I’ll take the top one on the left…can you reach it for me?
I’m going to be out most of the afternoon, so I’m posting my Random 10 a bit early…hell, it’s gotta be happy hour somewhere:
Taco Grande — “Weird Al” Yankovic
Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major “Spring”: I. Allegro (comp. Vivaldi) — Andrew Parrott & Taverner Players
Betrayal at Bespin — John Williams (from The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack)
Amber — Mannheim Steamroller
Hair — The Cowsills
Better Together — Jack Johnson
Rio — Duran Duran
Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves — Eurythmics
I Need You — The Beatles
Goodbye Stranger — Supertramp
TTFN… 🙂
I’ve just gone to my mail box and opened my brand new color boomantribune.com bumper sticker. Outstanding! Have I mentioned they make great gifts too??! Available at the booman store.
What a peaceful looking place to kayak. I sure wish I could do it without someone laughing and pointing.
I’m tired
My back hurts
I hate my stupid mistakes that take me forever to find
It’s hot
I hate other people’s stupid mistakes that take me even longer to find
It’s humid
Why should I have to work when Jim doesn’t
I’m sleepy
Why should I have to work when the dogs never have to
I want to retire
If I had known this was the category I would have been more inspired to add my own. Just give me a minute.
I just made it up — it seemed perfect for a Friday afternoon.
I’ll take “Why Life Sucks” for $2000, Alex.
Give us your ten, Omir!
I’m melting
I hate packing
Why is the only feed store with organic chicken feed on the other end of the planet
Will the dogs ever stop shedding
Do I really have to grocery shop
Where did my favorite black tank top go
When does male puberty end, and will I really live that long
Why is it raining again
I hate the end of the month and accounting for all my time for work
My back hurts
I’m out of work
Unemployment payments don’t cover the bills
I have to make doctor’s appointments
There’s too much house to clean
I have no freakin’ clue how to clean a house
I’m overweight
My blood sugar is always either too high or too low
George Bush is still in office
Did I mention that my back hurts?
I know several items on it but there a couple that I don’t know at all — but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to hear Amazon’s 30 second male puberty mp3.
So are you more afraid of the voice cracking, or what the lyrics might be?
It’s definitely the lyrics.
you rang?
what’s going on in the cafe?
I’m hopping in the shower. I still haven’t figured out a way to blog in the shower, but when I do I am going to patent it and turn this into a small government, no new taxes site.
We’re having a Whine and Jeez party. Wanna join us?
After the shower, of course.
do you want to do Dr. Phil blogging?
Every third comment will be “How’s that working out for you?” 🙂
turn it on now and you’ll see a woman that feels dirty when she hears sexual words. She can’t saw cockpit or cheese nips.
How’s that working for her?
not too well.
Then Phil had on some 40 something woman with a 20 something boyfriend that is pissed off because he doesn’t feel like having sex three times a day and is annoyed she used his low libido as an excuse to screw one of their friend’s husband.
Exactly what is the allure of a 20 year old guy if it’s not his libido? I say she had every right to screw the friend. That 20 year old was guilty of false advertising.
What’s that old saying?
Something about a horse in a poke….
Is it ‘a horse in the poke is worth two in the bush?’
I’m sure that lady would be happy to settle for two in the bush, so to speak. 🙂
For a minute there I thought I had left you speechless with all of the possibilities.
What really is a poke? Seriously.
You know I actually went and googled to look it up and couldn’t find anything.
The onlything I can figure is a pen.
Dr. Phil told her to get a blood test.
It’s hot.
It’s real hot.
It’s also humid.
I don’t have nearly enough small fans for all the places I go in the house.
My cats have way too much hair.
I still can’t figure out where the fruit flies are coming from.
My bronchitis is at the stage where it feels like I’m choking to death.
I can’t go into detail about that but I want to.
They haven’t put out any new books at Goodwill for at least a week.
It won’t cool off around here for at least another 2 months.
Oh, and why does Andi have to work when Jim doesn’t?
Oh, and why does Andi have to work when Jim doesn’t?
Because there is no way in hell that I would ever be a teacher — which doesn’t reduce the whinability a bit.
I know it’s a random list but I’d give the bronchitis multiple spots — it’s really awful, especially when you can’t lie down w/o hacking until you feel like your chest is going to explode.
The bronchitis thing is awful, especially with the humidity. Ick.
I have the summer off so I have lots of time to annoy my granddaughter
I have health insurance
I live in Seattle freakin’ Washington
The 90° weather has gone away (for now anyway)
My blood sugar is nowhere near as out-of-whack as it has been in the past
A pigeon just provided me with some entertainment by trying (and failing) to raid my bird feeder
I’m using Linux
Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert and Keith Olbermann are still on the air
There are ice cream bars in the refrigerator
I have a family that knows what I’m like and they love me anyway
way to kill off all that sympathy I was building up to offer you
Offer it anyway, I don’t mind. I’ll just change the title of the category to “Life Doesn’t Suck Quite As Bad.”
Whining party? OK.
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Relatives
Nuff said.
ways to get rid of ’em:
fart
start coughing up big wads of stuff
tell them George has herpes
stop cooking for them
make the beds with burlap sheets
put Celine Dion music on really loud
tell them there’s a snake loose in the house, but not to worry, it’ll come out at night
You got to come up with something better than that.
Plus they know I wouldn’t be in the house with the last one.
Buy a banjo. Or a bagpipe. Better yet, a banjo AND a bagpipe. You don’t even have to play it. Just the sight of my banjo in the front room is enough to scare enough visitors into not coming over again.
I’m way ahead of you. I’ve have a banjo and the only comment I get is you look like that guy on Deliverance.
Don’t forget the accordian.
You forget I grew up watching Lawrence Welk.
Myron Floren lives. 🙂
The trouble with all these instruments of music destruction is that in the right hands they can actually sound good. Zydeco, for instance.
The trouble with the instruments I have is they’ve never sounded good in my hands.
Sounds to me like you need a different set of hands.
Patience is what I need. I’ll practice for awhile and then get tired of it and go off on some tangent. Usually I just end up playing the same stuff over and over.
Did you ever get that ISO downloaded?
Omir I’m glad you’re here.
Yes got it downloaded and I’ve played around with Linux today. So far I like it, but I’d like to know how to get the computer to do a dual boot.
It’s a little tricky, because to do a real dual boot you need to install Linux to your hard drive, but you have to not wipe Windows off of it.
Basically the procedure is:
Or if you have a few bucks to spare, buy a new cheap second hard drive to go along with the one you have now, and just install Linux onto that. You can get an 80 GB hard drive these days for less than $50.
That sounds good on the second hard drive. I think I’ll look around the next time I go to the city.
I’ve got to do more research on what’s out there for Linux. Like I said, so far I like it, but running from the CD is pretty slow and I know I only have the basic on the CD.
Using a second hard drive really is easier all around. I can do the whole defrag-qtparted-mkreiserfs thing but I’ve been doing this for years and years.
Once you get Ubuntu installed to the hard drive, give me a holler and I’ll help you set up your software repository so you can get some of the good software.
Thanks Omir I will. Next week I’ll have to get the mules hooked up to the buggy and take a trip into the city.
Have you considered planting Oleander and making them all a nice, flavorful pitcher of iced oleander tea? That would help to thin the herd, so to speak.
Hi IVG. Better not. They’re already talking about leaving, but not when. Heck they’re even talking about when they’re coming back. 🙁
Thanks Olivia. Like I said whinning and slacking go hand in hand. Whenever I have to do something I whine. 🙂
Um, FM, help me understand that last news flash you posted there … hehehe. So much for the vaunted veil of mystery, eh?
And what’s on your Friday Random Whine list?
May I steal Andi’s greeting as well? So I can greet two great photographers with a big howdy in one comment? Well, like it or not, I just did.
Happy Friday! Only 10 more minutes and I flee this popsicle cube.
I’m sorry to hear that you’re still in your popsicube!
I hope you get home tout de suite!
I hope you’ve got a great weekend to escape to.
Nothing really planned, though maybe I’ll call my sister and see if she’s up for going to Target or somewhere. Since C’s schedule so rarely coincides happily with mine, I’ll be stuck at home most of the time w/no vehicle (since we’re a 1 truck family). Just the usual humdrum stuff, but maybe I can get caught up on my b-thingie and learn some HTML so Olivia will give me a silver star for blogging?
And if you have questions I will be around since I have no plans, as you know … LOL 😉
It’s hot — 93F and humid …
Ah … I just can’t do it.
It’s the w/e and I’ve got cold beer AND cold ice cream — chocolate at that.
I’ve got no relatives coming over.
I’ve got nothing I have to do this w/e …
I can’t complain.
Sorry.
Nothing you have to do? Wanna swap? I have weeding that will be horrible to do (w/100+ heat indices predicted for tomorrow), dog hair to corral, floors to vacuum and mop, etc.
I too have lots of cold beer, and I’ll probably be drinking a lot of it! Oh, and hope to get a new post up at the B-thingie, since I got the pictures I wanted last night. This should be a fun one.
But it’s not the same as having relatives or having to do things you don’t enjoy.
And you can always come in from the sun and take cold showers.
At least you’re not at work!!!
I plan on doing it as early as I can get up, then make it short trips back and forth so I don’t get too hot, or I’ll be sick the rest of the weekend. Too much heat really gets to me in my neo-geezerhood.
Oh, forgot to tell you, Lacey is returning tonight for another week’s visit … so have to be ready to get charged by the 100#+ Golden when she arrives. Yup, another week with 4 rampant dogs in the house. Better than relatives though!
I can’t wait to see your new pix and your b …
I don’t know IVG. I don’t consider 93F, humid and no ac a charmed life.
The temp has dropped to 96! Whew – such a relief from that awful 97 from 20 minutes ago.
Yeah it’s buring up here in the deep south also. My outside temp is 84F right now. 😛
with a heat index of 101, dew point of 73. And with that, I better blow this popsicube (thx for coining that, Olivia!) for the night. Hope to catch up again later in the FBL, unless we get caught up in another movie tonight… Last night was Devil’s Rejects again… great stuff for that sort of genre.
Don’t drink all the beer FM, maybe catch your geezerness later….
Speaking of relatives, I’ve got to start dinner.
The locust are swarming.
I’ll jump in, it’s been a rough couple of weeks chez spider…
It keeps raining on me
I keep forgetting my umbrella
I’m hungry
I’m lazy
I hate cooking
Work is slow
I could be doing other things but keep getting distracted
I figured out the secret to the universe but nobody will believe me
I don’t have ice cream
The song on the radio sucks
My pooch died last w/e and I miss him
I may not be able to make it to the beaches jazz fest
I’m running low on beer
Someone stole my wallet
I hate the automated system for credit cards
Blech.
On a lighter note, I just booked a trip to the DR for Sept… hopefully we’ll miss any hurricanes… damn global warming.
a list of things to have a good cry over.
I’m very sorry about your dog.
Well, I certainly have shed my fair share, but with the sheer number of all the big and small things that are going on, whining seems entirely appropriate.
And compared to what the rest of the world is going through I have it easy. I mean, at least I can remember to bring my umbrella while I go get ice cream and beer, change my radio station and stuff, so that’s something 🙂
He was a good dog fer sure, I actually have a diary about him in me after some time passes. Thanks Andi.
Wow, I’ll just stop my crabbin’ now…
I’m really sorry to hear about your dog.
And the wallet thing must be a supreme pain in the a**.
I think you need one of these:
Don’t mind if I do, thanks CG, I take it we’re fully stocked around these parts cause I’m a bit parched…
Yeah, the wallet thing has been a major drag, and I really needed my cc number recently to order some biz supplies, but oh well, life goes on.
I’ll throw in something from down here to cool ya down.
No worries, there’s plenty mmore where that came from over in the new lounge.
so why don’t we move on to the new lounge?