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Attempted to be subtle and at least seem to be focused on my wife instead of cocktails and you people. Both were good and the Rum & Honey idea is a nice twist on the usual old fashioned. A stronger, sharper rum might be interesting even though the Barbancourt was super tasty and not terribly sweet.

Excellent work Shelly! Please report back on the Luxardo and don't hesitate to use the Redbreast in cocktails! You use expensive spirits all the time. That said, how is that other Irish? I haven't tried the Dougroni but I bought a bottle of Cynar last week and started experimenting. Search my last few posts in this thread if you want some more artichokey ideas.

Nice drinkies, cocktail buddie. And nice pic Dinny, and nice glass Peter. I let the pros at Heaven's Dog handle the duty tonight. First was a Biarritz Monk Buck, which was very tasty and refreshing. Then, I had a Vesper of the bartender's choice. For after dinner I had a Rum & Honey, which is essentially the HC rum old fashioned that Marc made except with honey instead of simple syrup or a muddled sugar cube, and a very cool hand-sawn chunk of ice. HD recipes below. Biarritz Monk Buck Recipe from Erik Adkins, Heaven's Dog Makes 1 drink Ice 2 ounces Armagnac 1 ounce fresh lemon juice ¾ ounce simple syrup (1 part sugar dissolved in 1 part simmering water) ½ ounce yellow Chartreuse ½ ounce ginger solution* 1 ounce soda water Lemon wheel, for garnish Fill a shaker with ice. Add the Armagnac, lemon juice, simple syrup, Chartreuse and ginger solution and shake for 10 seconds. Strain into an ice-filled Collins glass and top with the soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel. *To make ginger solution, stir 1 part sugar into 1 part ginger juice made by squeezing freshly grated ginger through a paper towel. Cap Haitian Rum & Honey Barbancourt 15yr rhum, local organic honey, Angostura bitters on a hand cut ice cube Now back from the ballet and having a dram of Parker's 27 to toast birthday boy Naaman again!

Happy home for your birthday day! Cheers!

Nice beer selection Emelius, as usual. How did they have 10yo Bigfoot? Was it good stuff? I just bought some bottles to cellar for awhile because I typically only like it after a few years.

Cin Cyn Cocktail 1oz Old Raj gin 1oz Cynar 1oz Cinzano (Perucchi rojo) 2 dashes orange bitters Lemon peel Stir and enjoy the Negroniness

Adventures in Artichoke-land continue: Norma Jean Cocktail 2 oz gin ½ oz Cynar ¾ oz lemon juice ½ oz simple syrup 6-7 mint leaves Shake everything with ice cubes and double strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig and serve.

The Doc is kicking some ass in that one!

Funny, but I used that a couple of times earlier today and was thinking that was the cause for the weirdness.

Millionaire #1, right? Did you try it equal parts and not like it? More booze often works for me, and the dash of grenadine seems unnecessary, but I am just curious. And thirsty. Very thirsty. Very jealous of the two Dreadnaughts that have been quaffed today. I need to buy some from that shipping source.

Yeah, but it is being weirder than usual.

I really doubt they were ruined, but I have not been in Fairfax since I pulled them inside. I may be there during this weekend and will surely drink some or bring them back to SF. I will let you know.

"View New Content" has been very tweaky all day today. Sometimes it pulls up my own last post in a thread and sometimes it has pulled up the same posts in successive executions -- grawk's camera sale post is in the list, click the link and view it, and then hit "View New Content" and there is no new content but the next time I come back to the forum and hipt "View New Content" it is there again.

Stupid Irish fucks. Nothing wrong at all with Macallan 18, of course. Now, if they had this stuff, then they would be on the ball:

Well that's not funny at all.

Oh, an extra dry Knob Creek martini. That's different.

It was only cleaning up to cover its evil-doing.

Knob Creek martini sounds awful.

Agreed. It is teh seks. On the other end of the spectrum, I have been chubbed up since seeing the 4-SSD Thunderbolt array that is in the Light Peak demo video. Mamacita!

To quote Wired: Thunderbolt plugs have the same shape as the Mini DisplayPort connectors in all recent Macs, and it’s compatible with them, so you can plug an older monitor into a new Thunderbolt port (even using a DVI, HDMI or VGA adapter) and it will still work. You won’t have a data channel, but the video connection will function.

Tree fiddy and a cookie, here.

Awesome Shelly! Congrat.

I was definitely thinking the same way, along with "why not get it all" if the school is paying?

That's cool! It makes most sense to swap from the included HDD to a better SSD, right? JP just did that for my Mac Mini and it is such a great thing. I wonder if the RAM price difference is worth doing as well.