Weekend Intelligence: The Green Fairy

Our first full-fledged weekend back in the house, and we decided that adage "Work Hard, Play Hard" was in order. So we decided to get adventurous and buy a drink that D had never had before, and I hadn't had in years. If we're gonna lose an hour, might as well lose it in style. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

Earlier in the week, I had been by our friendly neighborhood liquor store for some of the usual poison. The owner and I are on relatively friendly terms, and in asking what was new, he showed me that he had come across a new entry in his already pretty varied collection - an imported French Absinthe. He told me he would have 6 bottles in by the weekend, and would hold one for me if I wanted to buy in on the case. >:D It had been ages since I had absinthe: last time was on my trip to Austria when I was a Sophomore in college. So when the opportunity came up, I told him to hold one for me.

So that Friday, I stopped by after getting sugar cubes and picked up a bottle of the Green Fairy. D had never tried it before, so I cautioned her that it was an Anise-flavored liquor, since she's not a big fan of black licorice. Apparently, 'Anise-flavored' didn't register as 'licorice-flavored,' so she had a time getting it down. And just like the last time I had the drink, it was a very fast-coming, heady buzz that overwhelmed and left you rather carefree and prone to smiling. :) We had a great time that evening in game, leveling and generally catching up with friends we haven't seen in a month.

The next morning was my therapy session with Denise, and I got a chance to talk through some of the things that have been on my mind the past few weeks. It's really a relief to have someone completely unbiased and objective to bounce thoughts, feelings and experiences off of. At any rate, by the time I got home, the AT&T service had dropped yet again. D called in to start the trouble ticket and got our account upgraded to automatic tier 2 support for any further support calls we have to make. They sent out two engineers to look at the lines and punchdowns, refitted some of the jacks and were on their way again. Honestly, I'm pretty unhappy with the product, and if we have one more outage this month, we're probably going to switch back to TWC, as much of a pain in the ass as that would be.

We lost an hour of sleep that night, and felt every minute of it the next day. We just had an impossible time keeping up with the day. We got up late, ate late, did our WalMart run late... I hate Daylight Savings time, whether I'm gaining an hour or losing an hour, it always leaves me zombied for a week. -.-;