The Monkey

Drove home from a soon to be flooded East Hampton...to a soon to be flooded Battery Park City. Joy.

Four Roses Single Barrel Private Collection#2 Park Avenue Exclusive

I should have made a drink instead of having this beer.

Pilsner Urquell. blech czech.

Left the Hamptons this afternoon along with everyone else. Packed up for a couple of days at my MIL's palce because our neighborhood in NYC is being evacuated. Fuck.

Lagunitas Lucky 13.

Are you being evacuated? This is one of those times I wish I had a weapons closet.

Nope, still fucked.

Command-R seems to have worked. I don't know what these people do to computers, but all they have to do is glance at them and they stop working. I need to go home.

My parents' Mac Mini just started throwing the Prohibitory Sign.

Controlled burn?

This is a shitty way to end the summer. We're trying to figure out if we should leave eastern LI to head back to our apartment where we could be told to evacuate.

Situations like this always highlight for me the limited capacity of the majority of people in this world, but more specifically my mother, to distinguish fact from rumor or speculation.

Happy birthday Don!

Started to take this hurricane stuff more seriously.

Felt it at a restaurant in East Hampton. Like being on a raft. I was wondering how I could get so shitfaced off of one margarita.

Happy birthday!

Whoa! It's all, like, dark.

Harry’s Dilemma (modified) 2 oz bourbon (Four Roses – Small Batch) 1 oz sweet vermouth (Carpano Antica) 1/2 oz cherry brandy (Heering) 3 dashes Fee Brothers whiskey barrel bitters (Angostura)

Happy Birthday, Ian!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Brent. You'll be back before you know it.

I OBJECT! j/k, I'm fine.

^Approve.

One of those nights. Made a Remember the Maine that I'd rather forget. Tried again. So-so. This is a drink that requires moderation with the ingredients--except the rye of course. Just made a nice big Manhattan. I should just stick to these. Got some Carpano Antica today. Looking forward to trying it, but if one more bottle of vermouth goes in the fridge there will be much fighting with the Missus.