My weekend plans are installing a car radio, fixing a treadmill (again), baking some cookies with the kids, and hopefully doing some writing.

B&E over tomorrow night after Em and I go to Zoobilee. Saturday class and delivery of Girl Scout cookies. Hopefully a big fat nothing Saturday night and Sunday.

Scola, I wanted to tell you that is one beautiful photo you took.

Gin drinks: Gin Fizz, Gin Rickey, Martini, Hand Grenade, Peabody, Red velvet, red lion, Sidecar, Singapore Sling, Tom Collins, Red Raw Butt.

Emeline and I will probably make her Fancy Nancy fleece blanket and maybe her and I will work on her room a bit.

I will be hopefully getting over whatever the hell this chest cold/bronchitis/mystery ailment is.

Aimee, I thought your weekend was going to include breaking and entering. It's not, right?

Oh! I can get Girl Scout cookies tomorrow!!!

Fever-Tree tonic water

I just went and googled that up, and, hmmmm...intriguing. We're making faint efforts chez Zmayhem to eat and drink a little better, and it's been bugging me that most of the drink mixers have HFCS in them.

Not finding much for grenadine, though. Just one bartender's blog recommending Torani pomegranate syrup as a good HFCS-free decent-tasting substitute.

eta: And another blog commenter recommends just making your own. It sounds ridiculously simple: 1 part POM pomegranate juice, 1 part (or less, per your taste) superfine sugar, mix until sugar is melted (I guess you could use simple syrup instead), keeps basically forever in the fridge.

Isn't the alcohol kind of a given in Scotland, or is that just my extended family?

The Scots-Irish side of my family is mostly teetotalers except for me (well, in theory if not in practice) and the one family drunk. But I'd imagine winter in Scotland involves a pretty high blood-alcohol level on average.

I don't think I've ever been put off liquor by getting sick the way I have off fudge, fried fish, and most recently chili. But I think I've only ever been sick or hung over from drinking one time, despite imbibing heavily on occasion.

Thank you for your mighty tolerance genes, distant Irish ancestor!

Aimee, I thought your weekend was going to include breaking and entering. It's not, right?

Not at all!! Wholesome projects like sewing and Girl Scout stuff. Nothing criminal at all!

Nope.

Not at all.

That's the part of the io9 article that's eating at me right now (aside from the link back to us).

I don't understand why it rankles to have a link here. I know that b.org is supposed to be under the radar, so we don't make it a point to go around advertising ourselves, but it's a public site that anyone is free to peruse and join. I feel the same way about my LJ, which is technically public but I don't want real-life people to find. So I understand the "Crap, people are going to come over here" feeling, but I don't understand the "Grrrr, how could she possibly link to a site that was being discussed?" feeling. What's the linking policy?

P-C wins the internets today.

Hurrah! I will treat them well.

gstraley

Maybe his name is Gus T. Raley.

Just doing my part to help out Polter-Cow.

I appreciate it.

I wonder how to ever find out.

I'll be seeing her at the Writers with Drinks Salon on Sunday, probably.