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I'm sober tonight, and no indica, either. Thought I'd surf DU for a while before going to bed...
bottomofthehill
(8,347 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)I'm on vacation starting next weekend, and I'll indulge in some brandy then.
I finished the last of the Courvoisier, but I still have some V.S.O.P.
niyad
(113,556 posts)Brandy was really an acquired taste for me. At one point, I started to wonder if I would ever acquire it. I thought I was doing everything right; I even had a snifter and a warming kit.
Then I discovered I didn't like brandy warm. So now I drink it at room temperature.
Courvoisier is an excellent brand, well-worth its reputation...
niyad
(113,556 posts)ago, I used to go to a bar where the bartenders knew how to do it properly. But one night, there was a new bartender, and I watched in shock as he plunged the snifter (at least he got the glass right) into ice. I asked him what he was doing, and he explained that he was chilling the snifter. I politely explained that that was incorrect, and suggested that he seek instruction from the other bartenders.
Years later, I had a similar experience, when a bartender served my Cab-Sauv over ice. Shudder. .
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Sounds like one of those abominations that was inexplicably popular back in the '70's...
niyad
(113,556 posts)fierywoman
(7,694 posts)niyad
(113,556 posts)commented that the dictum of serving reds at room temperature reminded him that room temp in those drafty old chateaux was roughly the same as his refrigerator. So he cheerfully chilled his reds.
fierywoman
(7,694 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)People who have never visited the UK sneer at the legendary "room-temperature beer" they enjoy, not knowing that the 'room' in question is the beer cellar, from which the beer is hand-pumped up to the bar. So the beer is cool enough to be pleasant, but not so cold as to spoil the flavor.
British beer is actually quite good...
diva77
(7,656 posts)collateral damage to add to the heap.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)I'm listening to an hour's worth of Scarlatti piano sonatas.
OMIGOD, the man could write!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Haven't listened to it in ages. I'll have to dig it out...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)Here's the link to what I'm listening to:
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Their quality is unsurpassed...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am enchanted. This will be my new bedtime music.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)It makes me happy to spread around this bit of amazing music.
BComplex
(8,065 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,702 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)It's only 10:48 here and I snoozed all day, so I'm just coming to life. Same with my boys, we are like a houseful of vampires. The night is young.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)We now have enough providers in our clinic group that I can go more than just a few weeks in-between call weeks. It's nice. For a while, I was on call seemingly every other week...
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)💙
Aristus
(66,462 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)I'd fall asleep with the radio on, and when I awoke sometimes in the middle of the night, this was often the song playing at the time.
It lends a kind of lonely atmosphere to midnight musings...
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)I'm no spring chicken...
Don't think I'm at all nostalgic for those times. They were uniformly awful. My parents were getting divorced, and high school life was rotten...
onetexan
(13,058 posts)Brings back lots of memories of days gone by.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's not that late where I am ... prime time for jammin' tunes, real loud
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)... more than once because it cracks me up.
I previously had no idea that they sleep on their faces, at least some of them.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)They're usually hidden up in their body feathers.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)It's easier to sleep that way because of their big heads.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,897 posts)On the other hand, don't try to contact me much before 10am.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)I just always seem to assume that everyone else is ahead of me, time-wise...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,897 posts)My wonderful son is on the east coast, but I raised him right. He and I often talk on the phone well after midnight his time.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)The best sleep I get is between 2-4AM and noon. Given that we are in the final phases of construction (new addition) I have been short on sleep for over six months. Some of the crews get here at 6AM, but I am not about to discourage them from working even that early.
Monday, two trim crews (shelving and finish), a concrete crew, the earth moving guy, and a sod guy are all supposed to show up between 8 and 9 AM with accompanying concrete truck and a dumpster. It will be insane, but the house will be that much closer to finished.
niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)that I usually crash around ten, even on the weekends.
I haven't been drinking, so I'm wider awake than usual...
niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)'Reve' is French for 'dream', and it's his most dreamlike, compelling, soothing piece. I fall asleep to it whenever I can.
The play-count for 'Reve' on my iPod is in the several thousands...
niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)It takes me to a secret world no one else knows about...
niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)One more week before vacation. I haven't had more than a few days off in a row since April.
niyad
(113,556 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)3catwoman3
(24,046 posts)...Wednesday that I could not do then because my computer froze up at the end of the day and didnt get back to normal until Thursday morning, and a whole bunch more from yesterday that I didnt get done because I ran out of mental energy. Ive been seeing a whole bunch of teenagers Ive never seen before because the one location of ours that they usually go to is doing only sick visits, and my office is doing only well visits.
We are supposed to ask the teens about tobacco, drugs, alcohol and sex. If they have never seen me before, why the hell would they feel comfortable answering those questions. Even the kids I know well are probably not telling me the truth. Wednesday, I had 2 14 yr old girls with past suicidal gestures, an 18 yr old who said he has 5 sexual partners, and an 11 yr old who has had 14 office visits with 10 different providers in 8 months. A 16 yr old who weighs almost 300 pounds with past abnormal labs whose mother refuses to recheck any lab work because getting the blood drawn last time was a nightmare. Several older teens who come by themselves, who never know family history, which I am supposed to update for every visit every time.
I am quite certain that the insurance companies never look at anything in the family history, they just look to see if the boxes are checked. I fantasize about putting in something like, mother is a 3-legged unicorn to see if anyone would notice.
Give me newborns any time.
Hoisting a Mikes Hard Lemonade, which usually makes me drowsy.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)It's a little soul-killing, the medical provider's version of drudgery. I feel very fortunate to have an EHR system that allows me to chart accurately so quickly, I can usually finish and sign-off on a note right after the patient visit, and before the next one.
I rarely have more than one or two charts open by the end of the day. But things have been so slammed lately, that at one point last week, I had twelve charts needing to be signed off.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)Hope your night is going well...
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Looking at threads before bed. My cat is reminding me it's time for bed...
niyad
(113,556 posts)cate94
(2,813 posts)It was time for bed and hour ago. I havent had a good nights sleep for 3 and a half years.
murielm99
(30,763 posts)Hi.
denem
(11,045 posts)(worst relaxation tape ever)
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Wish I had better night habits.
DU is my last stop before tooth-brushing, etc.
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Hekate
(90,793 posts)ETA: have always been a night owl, but the past 3 1/2 years have been plagued with insomnia...
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I seldom sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time. Chronic back pain has been my constant companion since 2002 when I had a spinal fusion that didn't work out too well. No alcohol allowed here, or indica (which I dearly loved) due to pain management urine testing every month. This is my life, so I'm on DU all hours of the day.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Now it is super bad. I take Ambien, Tylenol PM without the Tylenol part, Xanax, and pot. Now when I go to my dispensary I tell them in an extremely serious voice, "This IS medicinal. I must sleep. I need the strongest Indica you have (in the 90% range)". I can't drink anymore or I get a 5-7 day migraine. Vaping has definitely helped when I wake up after 4 hours and have to take all of the above again. No fun! I miss my dog who died two months ago and slept in bed with me. She kept me sane through tRump. Now it is beyond sucky.
love the night
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)This is pretty normal for my unique circadian rhythm.
'Nite, all.