Rounds on the House

I have a family member who likes a particular drink. Let's call her generiic family member, of GFM for short.

The drink in question shall be called Fun in the Sand, or FIS for the purposes of this post.

Now that that technical stuff is out of the way, let us proceed.

I had some pineapple juice left over from a recipe that Lovey made, so I decided to see what drink I could mak using it, since most people don't open a fridge and exclaim " WOW! pineapple juice! I am SOOO excited".

Well, I had recently taken out some bartender books, so I perused them with the help of Bug to see if there were any with pinapple juice in them. While I was doing this, I decided to try the FIS drink with it, as it calls for orange juice usually. As I sat there sipping the drink, having not found any that contain pineapplle juice that were actually do-able with my supplies at hand (What is Creme De Noyoux anyhow?) , I decided to check out the FIS recipies.

Image my surpirse when one of the books had the recipe as orange OR pineapple juice!

So this weekend we had GFM and I made the drink with pineapple juice. She deemed it passable good. I was quite pleased.

Now to figure out what to do with the leftover gravy.

I'm Sorry

You know you are having a positively awful day when you send the following text to someone.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you, it was uncalled for."

It's even worse when that person happens to be your boss.

And it really shows how bad the day is when you have to then cut and paste the message and send it to ANOTHER friend.

Backspace Delete

You learn something new every day. I recently picked up an Apple laptop which does not have a backspace button. I mentioned this to a Mac user that I know, who told me that you just get used to it, I also noticed that my Blackberry didn't have a backspace, only a delete button, and I managed to get used to that, so I guess I would just have to get used to it on the laptop as well, even though it can be a bit cumbersome.

However, quite by accident, I discovered on my Blackberry, while editing some numbers and using the alt button and delete, it becomes a backspace.

Bolstered and encouraged by this new information, I figured there HAS to be a way to get to the backspace function on a really powerful, really new laptop. So instead of bothering to research the issue, or actually reading a manual, I happened to have been in the Apple store, so I decided to ask someone, assuming they would know. Sure enough, he told me the function key and delete makes it a backspace ( which is actually kind of intuitive).

So now I am happier in my knowledge than I had been in my ignorance.

Family

Yesterday was a really good day. I spent time with my parents and all of my siblings.

'nuff said.

Pizza Party?

The other night I went out to eat with Lovey for her birthday ( somewhat belated, for all of you who might be getting nervous). We decided to go dairy, as that is her usual preference. Now I am a somewhat predictable guy with some real prejudices when it comes to certain dairy foods, facts that are well known to the members of my family. However, I decided to live dangerously and ordered the salmon.

When we got home, I was on the phone with Related, who, when I informed her that i had gone to AL Di La asked me if I had ordered the personal pizza, my usual favorite. I informed her that I had indeed ordered salmon.

Then I spoke to Stretch. I asked him to guess what I had ordered, and the answer was ….. a personal pizza.

Finally, I was talking to Soupeater, and he asked me how the dinner was, followed by " You certainly didn't order fish"

I give up.

Next time I think I will stick with the pizza