Last night: vodka. Tonight: bourbon on the rocks.

[Aristus]

Happy Saturday night, everybody!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Happy Saturday night, my dear Aristus!

I'm nearly ready to toddle off to bed, but I wanted to respond to your cheery thread before I rolled up the sidewalks!

I hope you had a lovely day...........mine was really good. Everything flowed smoothly, all day. Doesn't happen that often, but when it does, it's wonderful.

[Aristus]

2. I'm glad to hear it, CalPeg.

Sweet dreams...

[Xipe Totec]

3. Tonight it was Banderitas at the Republic of the Rio Grande with my wife

Three shot glasses, on of lime, one of tequila, and one of sangrita de la viuda Sanchez.

Oh, and ROTRG - http://www.therepublicoftheriogrande.com/

[vlyons]

4. sipping wine here

I haven't had alcohol in about 2 months. But I can't sleep, so I opened the bottle of chardonnay in the fridge that's been tempting me for some time. I had a pretty good day. But then almost every day is pretty good. Given that I'm 71, every day is precious.

[Aristus]

5. Chardonnay is good for a very pleasant, mild, gauzy buzz right before falling asleep.

Excellent choice!

[elleng]

6. Sounds good;

wish I liked to drink.

[Aristus]

7. That's okay; more for me...

...to toast your health!

[elleng]

8. ;-)

[Aristus]

9. Oh my...

[Lithos]

10. Such a waste of time

Read a book instead...

[Aristus]

11. I am...

Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors And Accountability In The Information Age, by Michael Millenson.

[Lithos]

12. Very good

This is my current read:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536455/she-has-her-mothers-laugh-by-carl-zimmer/9781101984598/

[Aristus]

13. Looks interesting.

Heredity can be such a crapshoot sometimes. Everyone tells me I'm a carbon copy of my father. It's meant as a compliment, since my father was likable and charming. But he had his demons. And I always worry that I'll make the same mistakes he did.

Which is unfair to him, I suppose. I'm much more likely to make my own mistakes...

[Major Nikon]

28. ...

[chillfactor]

14. wine drinker here..

so wine both nights.....not into hard liqueur. Sleep like a baby.

[Aristus]

15. I drank wine last night.

Yellow Tail Cabernet.

I had a couple of shots of Smirnoff to help it along...

My tastes in alcohol are very small-d democratic; beer, wine, the hard stuff. It's all good...

[Eyeball_Kid]

16. Tomorrow, it's live bats.

I know. It’s bad and getting worse.

I remember something a virtuoso family therapist once said. He saw families as social organizations with a range of behaviors that sometimes displays pathologies. He once said that families that show substantially worse symptoms of disturbance than the norm will become very rigid in their behavior patterns, even to the extent that they become, quite by accident, funny. The reason for my writing about this now is because the Trumpy inner circle is very much like a crazy family. The craziness even extends to the Congressional GOP leadership.

[stonecutter357]

17. I had duck farts !

[CentralMass]

18. Embracing pantsdrunk, the Finnish way of drinking alone in your underwear.

Last edited Sun Aug 5, 2018, 08:57 PM - Edit history (2)

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/embracing-p-ntsdrunk-finnish-way-drinking-alone-your-underwear-ncna896516

[Aristus]

19. When I'm drinking alone,

I try to class it up a little with some silk pajamas.

[CentralMass]

23. :-)

[ailsagirl]

20. Question unrelated to alcohol

Do you ever run into dumpsters during working hours? Patients?

Just curious

[Aristus]

21. No, thank God.

Everyone on my clinical team is a staunch progressive Democrat. And I have few patients interested in talking politics. In the community health setting, you find few people who would be opposed to 'government health care'. We're actually a private, not-for-profit, but we get state and federal funding.

The new doctor I work with is from Vermont. And if it were possible to be further to the left than me, it would be him.

[ailsagirl]

22. That's good to know

Here I am in the SF Bay Area and my supervisor is a dumpster. I've always consorted with liberals (having grown up in a university town) and to me, that's the norm. Having those dimwits coming out of the woodwork is a continual shock to me and often I wonder if we're going to survive this onslaught.

sigh

Enjoy your week, Aristus

[Aristus]

24. You too, ailsagirl.

[ailsagirl]

25. Awwww... thank you for that, Aristus!

[Aristus]

26. This pic is pretty close to how Ailsa Crag looked when I saw for the first (and so far, only) time.

A mysterious, mist-shrouded island jutting up out of the Sea of Ireland. It was awe-inspiring...

[ailsagirl]

27. Lots of awe-inspiring sights in Scotland!

I guess we weren't near it, else we would have seen it. Hard to miss!

tha gaol agam h-Alba!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Gin & tonic, Hendricks gin and Fever Tree tonic.

Very smooth, nice on a warm summer night.