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  • Most excellent.

    First mojito of the year after a brutal week. I deserve this.



    Well, this isn't mine, but mine is sorta like it. Without all of the vegetation. But it's all mine.

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    As long as we are doing firsts, I will be watching my first game of the season tonight (have listened to games on the radio) when Yu Darvish pitches against the Houston Astros out at the Temple.
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
      As long as we are doing firsts, I will be watching my first game of the season tonight (have listened to games on the radio) when Yu Darvish pitches against the Houston Astros out at the Temple.

      Listen you, keep your baseball stuff out of my booze thread. I don't care that you are watching baseball, because you're in Texas so it's not really even baseball. If it doesn't concern the Red Sox, or failing that at least the Tigers, then it's not worth knowing. Good day, sir.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Hondo View Post
        Listen you, keep your baseball stuff out of my booze thread. I don't care that you are watching baseball, because you're in Texas so it's not really even baseball. If it doesn't concern the Red Sox, or failing that at least the Tigers, then it's not worth knowing. Good day, sir.
        I will also be drinking a Lenten beer. Not the first one, though.
        “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

        ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
          I will also be drinking a Lenten beer. Not the first one, though.

          Lent's almost over, bitch!

          Get a Guinness, or if they have Yuengling down your way get some of those. Actually, scratch that. Forget the Guinness, you won't be able to spell it. Get the Yuengling. I know this is asking a lot for Texas, but see if they have a beer at your local liquor store/gun shop called Baltika, from Russia. I had some over Christmas - very good.

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          • #6
            First open window day, first craft beer out in the yard, first discussion of soapstone counter tops with Mr. Snaps.

            Many firsts.
            "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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            • #7
              Baseball!!!!!
              “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

              ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Hondo View Post
                Lent's almost over, bitch!

                Get a Guinness, or if they have Yuengling down your way get some of those. Actually, scratch that. Forget the Guinness, you won't be able to spell it. Get the Yuengling. I know this is asking a lot for Texas, but see if they have a beer at your local liquor store/gun shop called Baltika, from Russia. I had some over Christmas - very good.
                Good stuff. I had some as part of a daily diet in St. Petersburg in 1995. "Craft" beers were silly-cheap at the time, in an effort to rob market share from Faxe and the ever-popular Budvar and Warsteiner. So, as relatively poor travelers of the time, we were able to pick up Baltika for about 25¢/half-litre. We were able to get it chilled with coordination of some Aussies who were there at the same time and had somehow acquired some ice.

                Good times. Good beer.
                It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                  First open window day, first craft beer out in the yard, first discussion of soapstone counter tops with Mr. Snaps.

                  Many firsts.
                  Love our granite
                  If it pays, it stays

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                  • #10
                    Stainless steel. The best.
                    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

                    ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Frostbit View Post
                      Love our granite
                      I don't think granite would work with me. The kitchen (like the house) is basically Craftsman style. I have blinding white cupboards that I don't want to change and I'll be redoing the Italian Fantasy tile in green subway tiles with several Arts and Craft style tiles as insets. I cook too much for granite even if I liked it.

                      The soapstone is a familiar material for me. I've done awful things to it both as a student and a professional. I think it will work out great in a kitchen.
                      "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                        I don't think granite would work with me. The kitchen (like the house) is basically Craftsman style. I have blinding white cupboards that I don't want to change and I'll be redoing the Italian Fantasy tile in green subway tiles with several Arts and Craft style tiles as insets. I cook too much for granite even if I liked it.

                        The soapstone is a familiar material for me. I've done awful things to it both as a student and a professional. I think it will work out great in a kitchen.
                        Can be soft and brittle.....just sayin'
                        If it pays, it stays

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Frostbit View Post
                          Can be soft and brittle.....just sayin'
                          Like my own personality.

                          I have used and abused soapstone surfaces all of my professional life. As an avid canner, I want something impervious to staining or etching by acids. The tile does that now but I hate it.
                          "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Hondo View Post
                            Lent's almost over, bitch!

                            Get a Guinness, or if they have Yuengling down your way get some of those. Actually, scratch that. Forget the Guinness, you won't be able to spell it. Get the Yuengling. I know this is asking a lot for Texas, but see if they have a beer at your local liquor store/gun shop called Baltika, from Russia. I had some over Christmas - very good.
                            In Texas one drinks Shiner Bock.
                            "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
                            -John Locke

                            "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
                            -Newman

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by scott View Post
                              In Texas one drinks Shiner Bock.
                              I thinks he's moved up to 'Fat Tire'. Not a bad choice but obviously not a good one, either. Kind of middle of the road. Somewhere between Stella and Flying Dog.
                              "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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