Je reste un voyageur:
Thought for the Day:
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
On Friends:
My dear friend and colleague from my Eaton days, Tattoo John called last night to say that we “must” get together before Monday next. He received a research grant from the Rand Foundation and is off to study the long term effects of the sexual revolution on Asian and Polynesian women in the state of Hawaii.
That fucker always could write better grants than me. After begging to be his research assistant he gently said no, he has to travel light. However, he is interested in purchasing the yacht. He said if he find the Future Mrs. Tattoo John (it would be his sixth) he will give me a call and once again I can be his best-man.
Your Drinks of the Week:
El Salvador Iced Tea
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Grand Marnier
3/4 oz. Tia Maria
3/4 oz. Amaretto
3/4 oz. Vodka
3/4 oz. Blue Curacao
Fill w/ Sweet & Sour and a Splash of Coke
Garnish w/ Lemon Twist
Jonestown Kool-Aid
Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz. Meyer's Dark Rum
1 Cube Of Sugar
3/4 oz. Chambord
Fill w/ Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Grenadine
top w/ 3/4 oz. of 151 rum
Garnish w/ a Orange & Cherry
Serve all Cocktails in a Pint glass. Don’t drink and drive, but if you must, I find the driving a church bus, a garbage truck or a panel van that has Organ Donation written of the side helps avoid being pulled over.
Your Bar trick of the Week:
Follow Me!
Take two shot glasses and six or eight sip straws (an even #). Give one shot glass and half of the straws to the guest. Tell them if they can do everything you do, you'll buy them the shot, if not, then they must double your bet, (I suggest 2 or 4 bucks). Arrange your straws any way you'd like and pour two shots of their choice. One for you and one for them of course. Start arranging the straws however you would like with your guest following suite. At some point, take your shot but leave the liquor in your mouth. Your guest will take the shot. Then arrange the straws again just for good measure, keeps them guessing.
Here's how its done: When your ready, spit the shot back into the glass. Never have I seen someone not drink the shot. You win, sneaky, very sneaky.
On decision Making:
Have you ever just decided something at the spur of the moment? Something big, something hard, something that could/will change or perhaps even end your life? So, now I have a goal in mind for getting back to 110% healthy and in shape. The things I can get talked into, LOL, just because someone says they need my help. Ok, truth be known, I have not made my mind up, but I am about 65%, just have some more questions. It is time for another adventure.
Your Mental Illness/Defect of the week:
Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Diagnostic Criteria
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is
inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)
Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
Inappropriate or constricted affect
Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self
Does not occur exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, another Psychotic Disorder, or a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.
(This one is a common one to call in sick to work with around here)
Your Bill for the Day:
"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that."
--The Winter's Tale (IV, iv, 159-161)
On travel:
Lil’ Kevin, my trusty Boy-Capon called me last night. He in living in Phoenix, teaching high-school and dating a super rich hot woman, who’s best friend works for an airline. It seems he is in possession of 6 round trip plane vouchers and has the idea of sending two to our mutual friends (Georgia-Boy and Sea Shell) who I might add are right-wing libertarians. Two for him and his Rich Girlfriend and two for the Sweet and Travel ready Mrs. John Q. Public. His plan is for to all meet in New Orleans. In February or March, so…on limited bank, we could go to perhaps my “most” favorite city in the world. Piss on the drinking, the food there is un-fucking-real.
I myself would rather go after Mardi Gras, but it would be nice to see the friends of Bacchus, and Orpheus again. I will hold my breath on this one, we have been going to go to South Africa to play golf, Prague to hit on chics and Ireland to…well… just be Irish, none ever came through…but, there is always the possibility.
Also, we had been thinking about going to visit the Well-Connected and Entertaining Mrs. JQP’s family in Savannah for St. Paddy’s Day (a time of year when I take off two days, every year, and have it written into my employment contract, along with my birthday). If you didn’t know it, Savannah has the oldest St. Paddy’s Day party in the US, and if you ever get a chance to go, you’ll be back. It sounds a bit more fun than the year before last when we went to Key West and spent the day in the only Irish Pub within 90 miles of Cuba.
We are going to Memphis some time in the next two months as well. We owe J. Tom and Sweet-Pea a trip down and sitting in their backyard cooking ribs playing with my God-Daughter and then hitting Beale St. sounds like a nice get-away weekend. This summer I have to go down to Surfside Beach for a 40th birthday party, so some miles and some wild times.
Yes, my Southern roots are evident in my choices in travel destinations. Foods good, people are polite, drinking before 8 am is a norm and I know folks all over down there.
Your Quote for the Day:
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken, 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
US editor (1880 - 1956)
I remain,
JQP esq.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
On Friends:
My dear friend and colleague from my Eaton days, Tattoo John called last night to say that we “must” get together before Monday next. He received a research grant from the Rand Foundation and is off to study the long term effects of the sexual revolution on Asian and Polynesian women in the state of Hawaii.
That fucker always could write better grants than me. After begging to be his research assistant he gently said no, he has to travel light. However, he is interested in purchasing the yacht. He said if he find the Future Mrs. Tattoo John (it would be his sixth) he will give me a call and once again I can be his best-man.
Your Drinks of the Week:
El Salvador Iced Tea
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Grand Marnier
3/4 oz. Tia Maria
3/4 oz. Amaretto
3/4 oz. Vodka
3/4 oz. Blue Curacao
Fill w/ Sweet & Sour and a Splash of Coke
Garnish w/ Lemon Twist
Jonestown Kool-Aid
Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz. Meyer's Dark Rum
1 Cube Of Sugar
3/4 oz. Chambord
Fill w/ Orange Juice
1/2 oz. Grenadine
top w/ 3/4 oz. of 151 rum
Garnish w/ a Orange & Cherry
Serve all Cocktails in a Pint glass. Don’t drink and drive, but if you must, I find the driving a church bus, a garbage truck or a panel van that has Organ Donation written of the side helps avoid being pulled over.
Your Bar trick of the Week:
Follow Me!
Take two shot glasses and six or eight sip straws (an even #). Give one shot glass and half of the straws to the guest. Tell them if they can do everything you do, you'll buy them the shot, if not, then they must double your bet, (I suggest 2 or 4 bucks). Arrange your straws any way you'd like and pour two shots of their choice. One for you and one for them of course. Start arranging the straws however you would like with your guest following suite. At some point, take your shot but leave the liquor in your mouth. Your guest will take the shot. Then arrange the straws again just for good measure, keeps them guessing.
Here's how its done: When your ready, spit the shot back into the glass. Never have I seen someone not drink the shot. You win, sneaky, very sneaky.
On decision Making:
Have you ever just decided something at the spur of the moment? Something big, something hard, something that could/will change or perhaps even end your life? So, now I have a goal in mind for getting back to 110% healthy and in shape. The things I can get talked into, LOL, just because someone says they need my help. Ok, truth be known, I have not made my mind up, but I am about 65%, just have some more questions. It is time for another adventure.
Your Mental Illness/Defect of the week:
Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Diagnostic Criteria
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is
inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)
Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
Inappropriate or constricted affect
Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self
Does not occur exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, another Psychotic Disorder, or a Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.
(This one is a common one to call in sick to work with around here)
Your Bill for the Day:
"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that."
--The Winter's Tale (IV, iv, 159-161)
On travel:
Lil’ Kevin, my trusty Boy-Capon called me last night. He in living in Phoenix, teaching high-school and dating a super rich hot woman, who’s best friend works for an airline. It seems he is in possession of 6 round trip plane vouchers and has the idea of sending two to our mutual friends (Georgia-Boy and Sea Shell) who I might add are right-wing libertarians. Two for him and his Rich Girlfriend and two for the Sweet and Travel ready Mrs. John Q. Public. His plan is for to all meet in New Orleans. In February or March, so…on limited bank, we could go to perhaps my “most” favorite city in the world. Piss on the drinking, the food there is un-fucking-real.
I myself would rather go after Mardi Gras, but it would be nice to see the friends of Bacchus, and Orpheus again. I will hold my breath on this one, we have been going to go to South Africa to play golf, Prague to hit on chics and Ireland to…well… just be Irish, none ever came through…but, there is always the possibility.
Also, we had been thinking about going to visit the Well-Connected and Entertaining Mrs. JQP’s family in Savannah for St. Paddy’s Day (a time of year when I take off two days, every year, and have it written into my employment contract, along with my birthday). If you didn’t know it, Savannah has the oldest St. Paddy’s Day party in the US, and if you ever get a chance to go, you’ll be back. It sounds a bit more fun than the year before last when we went to Key West and spent the day in the only Irish Pub within 90 miles of Cuba.
We are going to Memphis some time in the next two months as well. We owe J. Tom and Sweet-Pea a trip down and sitting in their backyard cooking ribs playing with my God-Daughter and then hitting Beale St. sounds like a nice get-away weekend. This summer I have to go down to Surfside Beach for a 40th birthday party, so some miles and some wild times.
Yes, my Southern roots are evident in my choices in travel destinations. Foods good, people are polite, drinking before 8 am is a norm and I know folks all over down there.
Your Quote for the Day:
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. Mencken, 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
US editor (1880 - 1956)
I remain,
JQP esq.
posted by John Q. Public esq. at 2:20 AM
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