Congratulations Stephanie and welcome Samuel!
Congrats on moving in, Lee!
My kids built a fort so they could read books in it. They drive me crazy it's true, but then they do things like that and I get all happy inside.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Jan 21, 2012 1:29:06 pm PST #17650 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Scrappy - Jan 21, 2012 1:32:23 pm PST #17651 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hooray for Samuel!
Jesse - Jan 21, 2012 1:39:05 pm PST #17652 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, work does not start for at least another week.
OK, then. BUT STILL.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2012 1:41:38 pm PST #17653 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Welcome to the world, Sam.
Matilda and I got back from an outing on Haight Street which involved nabbing a used copy of Enchanted at Amoeba, then a coloring book at Booksmith. She wanted ice cream at "Tom and Jerry's" but when we got there, it was closed ("Back in 10 minutes!"), so I said "Let's check to see if that new ice cream store is open."
Which was very unlikely because they've been working on the new ice cream place for ten months, and saying they were going to open every week since October.
But the whole Cole Valley neighborhood has been excited for it to open because (a) we have no local ice cream parlor except for the Ben & Jerry's on Haight; and (b) it was going to have an old fashioned ice cream soda bar.
We walked over and it was open! And mobbed! And the new staff were very nice and completely inefficient and took forever on every order because they hadn't gotten their system down. But folks were patient and we stayed for our order.
The ice cream itself was fine - though not a patch on Bi-Rite. However, the real action seems to be at the Soda Bar where they've got mixologists who've created their own house-made extracts and tinctures, and they're using old-fashioned phosphates and "excinct lactart" and are doing vintage soda jerk style drinks with the artisan flavors.
Like their milkshake (which is "shaken with milk, egg, and ice in the old fashioned style") that uses rye-based butterscotch syrup, egg, milk, malted cream and blackstrap molasses.
Or their Classic Wild Cherry Phosphate which has house-made tart cherry syrup, cherry bark tincture, acid phosphate, gum foam and soda. (Comes with a warning that cherry bark tincture isn't good for people on blood thinners. Who knew?)
Their Crush (fresh fruit based sodas) called "A Lover's Game" is muddled fresh raspberries, house chocolate syrup and soda. That sounds good.
sumi - Jan 21, 2012 1:46:57 pm PST #17654 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Wow, that does sound good.
Sounds like a splendid outing.
erikaj - Jan 21, 2012 1:48:09 pm PST #17655 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Yum, Hec.
Polter-Cow - Jan 21, 2012 1:48:20 pm PST #17656 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A Lover's Game sounds good, but the others sound kind of gross and possibly dangerous.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2012 1:52:44 pm PST #17657 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, soda jerks are the new bartenders?
Zenkitty - Jan 21, 2012 2:07:16 pm PST #17658 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Welcome, little Samuel! Way to go, Stephanie!
smonster, yikes. Screwing with potassium levels sounds scary. I mean, don't panic, but def. have a serious talk with the doc.
Oh, ice cream. Milkshakes. Old-fashioned milkshakes. Yum.
Strix - Jan 21, 2012 2:07:56 pm PST #17659 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Neil Gaiman just responsed to one of my Tweets. Why does this thrill me?
Thank you for earworming me with the Michelob jingle, Erin!
I live to serve.
msbelle, I jumped into Torchwood having never seen an episode of Dr. Who, just knowing what I know from the Buffistas, and had no problem. There are some in-jokes you miss, but not much. It stands alone very well.
ION, a friend of mine posted a bunch of old college photos to Facebook and I was sucked into finding mine, scanning them and posting them. I have gotten almost NOTHING done today, except a load of laundry. And now it's night, and I don't want to go to the grocery store.