Absorbine_Sr

No good beer to toast Jeff tonight - how does a Sazerac/Punt e Mes/Peychaud's bitters Manhattan sound? Cheers Sir!

I was hoping to be adopted by Al. I'll be a good son and clean my room and only need a little beer and whiskey.

Just had a Bluecoat and Dolin dry martini. I think I'll have another.

Happy Birthday Jeff. I will drink a toast to you tonight sir.

Sideloaded additional browsers as I'm not too thrilled with Silk so far. And weirdly enough, so far it's Maxthon that behaves the best. I used to use it under windows like 5 years ago and so far I like it way better than Opera Mobile.

Sounds like a good start Bryan!

Sent from my Kindle with appropriate respect so I can still go and drink good booze at jvlgato's house.

Sent from my Kindle Fire while thinking of a good way to tell jvlgato to piss off.

Well, I figured out how to log in with the browser, but trying to reply here does not activate the keyboard. Urghhh So far response time is good. Browsing for the most part is ok. Video looks good. Need to upload some music to see how good/bad the headphone output is. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

The travels are over. First impression -suckage. Had to buy tapatalk to log into head-case. The Amazon browser opens the sign in screen under the main page and wont let you scroll to it. Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk

I have no problem with hanging out in Austin. Maybe I'll even find my Kindle.... Seriously, we need to see where most people want to go. If it's in my back yard I'd love it, but it doesn't have to be unless most want that.

Fire update - still in Wisconsin. No tracking update since the 19th. Emailed FedEx and got a canned reply. Emailed a smart assed reply - got the exact same canned response. Why is it so damned hard for companies to do good customer service these days?

Kick their asses Shelly. We found out after my Mom's first knee surgery, we had to keep after doctors, nurses, therapists and techs to do their job and do it the right way.

That's not a euphemism, is it Mike? Should we warn your wife?

I asked if they planned to carry the Fever Tree stuff regularly, and the guy gave me a firm maybe. He said Fever Tree (or their distributor) is picky about the order sizes, so if demand is good they can keep it in stock.

Rye and Ginger, using Fever Tree Ginger Ale.

Orland Park.

Great minds think alike... We also bought Kasteel Rouge today. Mostly for Debbie's sisters on Thanksgiving. I also was lucky enough to get some Fever Tree Tonic and Ginger Ale as our Binny's started carrying it. Also scored some Peychaud's Bitters and Fee Bros. Orange Bitters. Binny's near us has stepped up their game.

Last Saturday was the FFF 15th anniversary party. We had tickets ($25 per) and knew it was going to be similar to a Dark Lord Day situation. There were around 3000 tickets sold/given away. 4 or 5 bands including the Melvins. And FFF had collaborated with Surly, Struisse, and someone else for the 15th anniversary beer. It was being sold for $30 a bomber. There were also barrel aged Dark Lords and some other stuff available. And they had advertised 4-5 chefs from across the country providing food. So we arrived around 1:00 PM, when the gates were due to open. We didn't bring any beer to share as they had stated that unlike DLD there would be no coolers allowed in the gate. We were actually closer in line than last DLD, so we figured we'd have an hour wait or so. Um, no. We stood. And stood. And moved a bit. And stood. And stood. And got colder. And moved a little. And stood. We got into the main gate at 5:00 PM... And had our beer purchased around 6:00 PM. We were pissed. What they had done was tied the entrance line to the beer purchase line. So if it was slow, so was entry to the entire event. On DLD they had let people in the "compound" regardless of the beer line, and you got in line when you wanted. By the time we got in, a good part of the guest taps were dry, the food was gone except for two food trucks - overpriced tacos and cold pulled pork sliders at $5 a piece. And we were supposed to get 4 free pours, but you didn't get that until you got to the place to buy your beer. By that time we'd had it. We ran into several of the people we know quite well at FFF and when we voiced our opinion to them (not angrily, more in an effort to ask what the hell happened) they gave us attitude and arrogance. So we said fuck FFF and fuck the Melvins and fuck it all and left. I've not been back to FFF since. I'd paid $50 in tickets for the privilege of being herded like cattle and to be able to buy their overpriced beer. We did get a small amount of satisfaction as a majority of the comments on Beer Advocate were saying the same thing. And Debbie was pissed enough that she emailed FFF and let them know how bad we thought it was. She got a reply from their marketing guy who apologized and stated they need to review how they handle their large events. We've come to refer to it as the Bataan Death March of beer events, and I'm staying away from FFF for a while, to save some money for other things but also because some people who I considered friends treated us like little more than shitty complainers, when in reality I drop between $60 - 100 a week with them.

Happy Birthday John!!

Latest update - the Kindle must have needed cheese as the latest hit shows it is in Wisconsin! Hmmmm.... Fire.... cheese.... Saganaki!!!! Opa!!!

So am I john, but right now my Kindle Fire is doing a tour of Texas..... Instead of free shipping I paid the 7 bucks to have 3-4 day shipping. So Amazon ships it on the 14th, using the FedEx hands off to USPS method. It's worked for me before so I'm cool with it. First tracking hit shows it leaving Kentucky on the 14th. I figure Kentucky to Illinois is a piece of cake. But apparently the Lone Star State was calling. The next hit shows it in Houston! From there it went to Dallas!! Shelly and Marc, keep your eyes open for my Kindle! It may have a tour date in your neighborhoods soon. And Steve, it may pop up near you as well. And then today FedEx changes my expected delivery date from the 18th to the 26th. So I email Amazon. And they do the right thing. Refund my shipping cost.... So I'm looking forward to being the last person in America to receive his opening day Kindle Fire. Yay.

And though not as big as a certain Mayberry residence, we do have some floor space for people to crash on. And one day bed and a love seat (reclining) and a sofa (reclining). And two showers.