3 posts tagged “friday”

Xkcd is usually pretty good -- but this is genius.

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Happy Friday!

If being out of work has any advantages, one of them is that Happy Hour always starts on time.

I know I lot of people don’t like the taste of different whiskeys – I used to be one of them.  And I have to admit that I really don’t dig the taste of a Manhattan (classic drink that it is…).   If you’re in my camp, that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy whiskey, bourbon and rye – and today’s drink is a perfect example.

The Pear Sling

2 oz rye (or bourbon)
2 oz. pear nectar*
¼ oz. simple syrup
½ oz. lemon juice

Mix ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake vigorously (which will produce a light foam) and strain into a cocktail glass – garnish with a little sprinkle of nutmeg.  That's right, nutmeg.  Just do it.

Pear Sling

This drink is one of those that goes down verrrrrry easily – almost too easily.

*I use Kern’s which I can find in the grocery store

I was tagged by Nacwolin for seven things about me that might not be known.  Since these pop up with some regularity, I beginning to think I'm running out of things to say about myself.  Nevertheless, here we go...

1. I dislike artichokes.  Dislike isn’t strong enough, I think they’re nasty.  (And I get a lot of crap for this from the Beloved and some other friends of ours that really like them.)

Nope

2. I have never broken a bone, nor have I ever had to stay in the hospital.  The worst was ER room stitches after a collision at home plate during softball game in my 20s.

Nope

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3. I attended the first Live-Aid concert in Philadelphia in July, 1985.  It was incredibly hot and man, did I get a heck of a sunburn.

Yep

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4.  My initial major in school was chemical engineering, which I thought was boring.  I wanted to change to psychology, but my parents dissuaded me (thinking there was no future in it) and so I changed it to chemistry, which I found marginally more interesting than ChemE.

Nope

5.  My BS and PhD are in organic chemistry, but I haven’t synthesized an organic molecule in 15 years, maybe more.

Nope

6. I am a terrible swimmer. I nearly drowned once when I had waded out to a sandbar (Wildwood, NJ) and the tide came in making the water deeper than I could stand in.

Nope

7. I always come out as “Jack” on “which LOST character are you?” quizzes.

Yep

I won't tag, but feel free to play along!