We shut off the O2 machine this morning shortly after we got out of bed and have been untethered from that life-saving device (and I'm not indulging in hyperbole) for the whole day... for the first time since this past Tuesday. We also are conducting our first full-blown Happy Hour since last Monday, with more than just a single perfunctory beer and complete with cigar (also for the first time since Monday). Like this:
Shorter: We are feeling MUCH better. As for the above... that would be a Mothership Wit and an Acid Blondie Belicoso, both of which made me think of The Second Mrs. Pennington. The beer because it's brewed in the city where she lives and the cigar... well, I dunno. It might have something to do with the name. Mebbe. OTOH it might be because the cigar is spicy, full-flavored, slightly sweet, and out of the mainstream. Yeah, let's go with that.
And now... back outside to continue as we've begun.
Wise choices -- all of them!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling better. You had us concerned.
Welcome back to the healthily inebriated, sir. Buzzed, at least. Being able to go more than one beer is an enormous plus. I'm quite a while between stogies right now, so I think I am due. Maybe tomorrow...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that you are feeling better. Enjoy your happy hour - it looks to be a good one.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you are back to your old self. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteBuck. Good to hear that you're doing much better. Tell me more about that Mothership Wit. What a name! I have a friend I go to a sports bar once a year with to watch the baseball playoffs and I want to order that and check his reaction.
ReplyDeleteP. S. I found the Fat Tire! I'll let you know what I think even though my beer taste buds have been locked on "simple" for a long time. I'm still drinking the Labatt Blue, thanks to you. Really good stuff. If I can find Mothership Wit, my education will continue.
Shut off the O2 machine and now have a cigar. Hmmm. I don't even have to say it, do I??
ReplyDeleteThanks All for the kind words.
ReplyDeleteDan: Follow that "Mothership Wit" link and you'll get 437 opinions/critiques of the beer. Personally, I think it's the perfect summer beer. It's relatively light in alcohol content at 4.8% and is very, very "drinkable." I'm partial to witbier in the first place, tho.
I think you'll like Fat Tire!
Catching up here, Buck. Hope all is well--if you go who is going to give me my wx rpt for NM?
ReplyDeleteThat photo of Stonehenge reminds me that it also was cold and windy as hell the day I went in 71. One of the most miserable times I've ever had viewing a historic monument. (in the middle of "summer," natch) You and I can sure pick 'em, Buck.
LOL about slogans & Curt LeMay. When he was running for V.P w. Geo. Wallace in 68 a buddy of mine joked that his bumper sticker should read: "Bombs Away With Curt LeMay!""
When I was in the AF motto was: "The Mission of the Air Force is to Fly And Fight And Don't You Forget It!"
BTW, every 6th and 9th I always drink a large bottle of Sake' to celebrate in proper "in-your -face" highly un-PC fashion. As I mentioned over at CDR Sal's place, my Dad, having survived the fighting in the ETO as an Inf Company CO, was on a troop train headed to the West Coast to ship out to China where the Army was getting ready to take on that 50% of the Japanese Army which wasn't in Japan when VJ day was declared. The bombs undoubtedly saved his life.
Virgil: True story: At the last job I held before I retired we got the usual number of holidays and one floater that was called a "diversity day." (No shit) I always took my diversity day on August 6th, which I called American Imperialist Warmonger Day. My management didn't think it was funny but I DID get the day off.
ReplyDeleteAnd the USAF motto was the same in my day, too. Our days overlapped, actually.
You've probably already seen this, but I think it's a good beer commercial!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAs1K3lYNVc
What??!
Mothership Wit, no matter who brews it, is good. My friend, Thalhurst from NorthShield brews it, and it is as good as the local brewery. Home brews are about 20 cents a beer... Cheap enough to give a away a 6-pack for just over a buck. Share it!
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