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[urbpan]

It's as warm as it's been all day, or as it's going to be all week, right now at 7 in the evening. I'm glad I took Charlie out to run around when I did. Tomorrow at this time every surface is going to be as hard as concrete, or covered in salt (which burns the dogs' feet).

And I just said on facebook, I should have spent 15 years as a car-driving, pork eating, whiskey drinker AND THEN switched over to being a vegetarian cycle commuter, not the other way around. I could use the change to a healthy lifestyle, but now my life is a little more comfortable. I'm not rich, but I can afford car insurance and whiskey. Why would I make my life less convenient just because it's the smart, healthy thing to do?

(These thoughts brought to you from my trip to the doctor, which made me feel much worse than I did when I went in.)

Comments

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

mmmm. whiskey... (I'm on day four of five for antibiotics and thought it might be wise to avoid alcohol this time around.)

I was face book chatting with my friend in Boston this morning and she said it was 8 there. That is 26 degrees warmer than it was here at that time :)

Let's all move to Austin!

[candent.livejournal.com]

What's up with your doctor?

Also I just realized I've never had whiskey.

[bdot.livejournal.com]

you're not missing much. blech..... ;-)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

She's very young and inexperienced, and while I think she's nice and surely did well in medical school, she doesn't make me feel reassured or like I've been in the presence of wisdom.

I hadn't really had whiskey until Alexis introduced me to it. Careful with scotch--if you get the cheap stuff (under 40 dollars a bottle) it can taste like liquid smoke. I like bourbon, which is a little sweet under the fire, and rye (which is kind of peppery and tastes real nice with ginger ale). Canadian whiskey is perfectly acceptable on a budget, even the kind that comes in a plastic bottle goes good mixed with coke or seven up. I've got no beef with Irish whiskey, but it doesn't taste much better to me than anything I can get for 2/3 the price. I also like any of the above plain on ice, but it took a while to acquire that taste.

Since you are a student of manliness, I can see you developing an appreciation of the stuff. I picture you with a bottle and a shot glass, drinking it neat.

[candent.livejournal.com]

Do you have to see her or can you maybe find a new doctor?

I'm definitely interested in manliness in the sense that I aspire to be more of a gentleman and I hope as I get older I become more like you.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I could try to find another I guess. I'll have to think about it. I have another appointment in May, we'll see how it goes.

Well, that's very kind. I try to be a gentleman, but I feel like a dork most of the time.

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

I've never even met you and I can assure you, you're a gentleman. <3

We need more like you.

[dosboof.livejournal.com]

Meh, a little whiskey never hurt anyone. Sssh, quiet, Bon Scott and John Bonham.

Apparently it's supposed to be 137 degrees below zero on Friday. Glad we're dropping by tomorrow because I do not plan on leaving the house for anything short of a fire on Friday evening and even then only maybe.

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Last year it was about 50F at the start of MIT Mystery Hunt. This year it'll be about 5F Friday at noon, from what I hear. I guess it's the law of averages, but ick, I wish it was in August instead of on MLKJr weekend every year.