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pain in the ass ripoff artists! report them to management and see if you can get any concessions out of them.

What they all said, Larry. Congrat on the inspection Dusty!

The Gravati shoes I have don't look like the ones I pasted above and the tux shoes are Ferragamos not Brioni.

Yay!

That's mostly greek to me, Vicki, but I understand the effort and the great results, so congrat and best of luck hitting your goal! Oh, and congrat to Stretch too! You're going to be a skinny sober person soon. Such a shame...

If you look really closely, are there some bugs in that shot?

I knew that hideous dress was familiar...

I like John Fluevog too.

http://www.dynamodonut.com/

How can it be that cheap? Are they horse rib-eyes?

Too late! Sorry, G-Man

For years I only bought Cole Hahn loafers, penny or tassel, but they slipped now that they are owned by Nike or whatever. I recently bought some dress clothes for the first time in a long time -- three suits, sport coat, tux, and most relevant here, three pairs of dress shoes. The tux shoes are Brioni (I think), and then a black pair by Gravati and a cordovan pair by Gaziano & Girling, all lace-ups. The Gravati pair look something like this: Here are the G&G pair, except they are in "vintage rioja" rather than this brown color called "vintage oak." Goofy names but beautiful and comfortable shoes.

Not quite as much bacon, but I am happily eating thus maple bacon donut:

It's fine for faceless, anonymous megasites, but it doesn't work so well here.

Wait a minute. ^^This fucking guy isn't blubliss so what is he doing with this avatar?!

Tyll should add this one to his repertoire along with the Marlboro man cigarette box folding trick.

Twins for life!

Did you see my nieces Dorothy and Ellen in Muir Woods Grahame?

Decadent!

This seems to be for the size glass I have, which is 8oz: .5 teaspoon sugar .5 oz lime juice Mint sprig(s) 3 oz soda water Muddle mint without harming the leaves 2-3 ice cubes 1.5 oz aged rum (3 years) Stir and drink On their website (http://www.havana-mojito.com/lang/en/downloads/mojito-recipe-20.pdf), they have a recipe and a video demo, and this is the recipe: 2 teaspoons sugar Juice of half lime (cover the sugar) 2 sprigs of mint 3 oz soda water Muddle mint without harming the leaves 2-3 ice cubes 1.50 oz aged rum (3 years) Stir and drink You pick how much sugar and lime you want.

I was updating the post to make it less cryptic.

This was last night, but close enough. I had dinner with Claire, my five siblings, and their spouses. It was fun and raucus with lots of loud personalities involved. One brother started off the gift-giving, or re-giving, with a long story about realizing that morning that he hadn't thought of a present and set out to find suitable re-gifting options. Whiskey Stones were the first thing he thought of because he got those for Christmas and doesn't drink whiskey. The obvious next step was finding that bottle of single malt that somebody gave him long ago that was still in the box. Well, the fact the box was falling apart was a hint that it might not be pristine, and inside turned out to be a half-empty bottle appropriated by his kids at some point that he gave to me anyway: Next up, one sister gave me one of these self-monitoring Jawbone things she got at a conference recently. She didn't really think I would use it but thinks I am more tech-y and therefore more likely to try it. Claire may do so, although the aforementioned brother had an even fancier model on his wrist and wears it all the time. One brother had no present (and I was glad because he has no money to spend on me) and another brother gave me one of those tattoo sleeves so I wore that the rest of the night to intimidate the waiters. I'm sure that was lying around their house, but he didn't make a big speech. Lastly, my other sister gave me real presents that she bought for me in Cuba last week (professor exchange trip). There are a couple of Cuban CDs, one of the lame band she saw at a bar (including No Woman No Cry and a salsa version of Let It Be) and one of a hip jazz combo. The main present was the awesome mojito glass with recipe and muddler from La Bodeguita del Medio, the bar where Hemmingway hung out. The muddler has a reproduction of his note to La BdelM on it. Cute touristy and Cuban. The Che hat is really hers although my other sister who re-gifted that Jawbone thing was shaming her into giving me the hat, and she apparently slipped it into the bag. I'm giving it back. Anyway, that's my nutty family in a nutshell.

Why?